#tiger (panthera tigris)

[pazzesco]

A cute little kitty sleeping in the snow...

[fyanimaldiversity]

Abundistic Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris)

[shopcat]

cat loaf :3

[fishsplash]

Sweet boy

[wikipediapictures]

White tiger

[geritsel]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Tiger, color woodblock print, 1842

[palaeosinensis]

I was trying this morning to distill what makes paleolithic European cave art...well cave art! And then apply it to an animal not seen in Europe. The technique was more important here than the results; I think the big bodies & smaller heads yet otherwise accurate features are a result of the artists having a sort of tunnel vision while working. As one drifts part to part lifting up the implement as little as possible the parts appear in proportion to their immediate neighbor. They are also distilled to their most important details & for the body that's a wide rectangular space. If you picture yourself working on a heavily textured wall as tall or taller than you are with the equivalent of a tea light (oil lamps) or a flickering torch you can imagine how easy it would be to get that kind of focused tunnel vision. While we see tunnel vision as a bad thing while learning art today in terms of cave art I just sort of see it as a natural consequence. You're going to focus really hard on what needs it; there are no erasers. Additional paint can't be bought at the store. Stone walls have limited access. You're going to make the best of every resource while you're there. Besides who said the animal had to be proportional anyway? You know exactly what you're looking at! Artist commentary: it was challenging deciding what was most important but also representing that important thing as accurately as possible. I feel like that's a common thread in all cave art from peoples across the world: draw what's most important. The rest will work out.

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

amur tiger by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard Via Flickr: Another picture, I've made at Zoo Koeln.

[tsalala]

Playing around or an actual brawl? Pictured above are cubs from Machli’s fourth litter — namely T-17 and T-19 — way back in 2008. Photographed by Nanak Dhingra in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India.

[snototter]

A young bengal tiger (Panthera tigris ssp tigris) takes a swim in Pauni Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary And Tiger Reserve, India

by praveen pandian

[harkthorn]

Quick scribbly tiger sketch in Mangaka pens

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[tiifu-ndovu]

[aticketplz]

オスのトラが水に入ってたら

A male tiger into the water

メスもきて

Then a female tiger comes

楽しんでいました

She was enjoying too!

@浜松市動物園

@Hamamatsu City Zoo

[shopcat]

my mighty warriors

[birdblues]

Tiger

[wikipediapictures]

White tiger