#zoo sketches

[xiphosuras]

Porcupine time ~

[katjapetersart]

Went to Artis. Spotted the rare red panda!

[corvidus-fr]

mirror babies. you agree

inspiration/ref photos under the cut:

[blackmonitor]

How about a Yautja in a petting zoo?

A yautja in a petting zoo!

[inkdrawndreams]

More Red Dwarf work doodles. Season 5 was very fun and sure gave a lot of insight into Rimmer's psychological issues. Mr. Flibble is adorable and scares the fuck out of me. The small, angry Rimmer in a star wars bikini was my coworker's idea.

[seasicksilver]

POV you’re called to war right after the birth of your son so you act crazy, salting the fields, to avoid being drafted but are doubted because this is the type of thing you would do so they lay your infant boy in front of your plow to test your sanity; of course you would never ever hurt your baby and drop to your knees cradling his fragile body to your chest crying

og picture:

“Tales of the Greeks and Trojans” by Roger Laneelyn Green, illustrated by Janet & Anne Grahame Johanstone

[degenerateshinji]

sometimes you artblock too hard the only way out is to draw creachers. babys. cariños.

zooms +foto of my own baby ily queen

[cyanicdoodle]

A very real conversation with @scratchorian @z00lea

[xiphosuras]

Snakes & lizards

[doesephs]

art block is genuinley sending me insane. how do i get out of this how come not even neil looking right

[dinoserious]

obligatory goofy sona doodle on my bday :}

[vazaez]

Critters

[aestknowsbest]

Dude your art is so freaking pretty PLEASE draw something for kotlc 🙏🙏 anything I don’t care! (If you were to draw Keefe that would be like wonderful) anyone doesn’t matter at all! (Keefe ahem please :)

Only if you want to and/or have time too ofc!! No pressure~

Girl, u know I would draw ANYTHING for you! I drew you like a few bc my first try was super unsatisfactory to me and I just kept going. Tbh I've been hesitant on kotlc art because of KEEFE'S HAIR. It hard >:/. I posted a few drawings on Pinterest but I knew if I drew Sophie, I'd need to draw keefe, but then I'd need Fitz and Dex!! and oppsies! I'd then need to make fedex art. Anyways.

[nansmenagerie]

@stellarblitz got me Planet Zoo for christmas, and the mental image of just launching the babies off the last level's island was too funny not to eventually draw.

Why can you release baby exhibit creatures, but not baby habitat creatures? We just don't know.

[fine-artist11]

[codgod-archive]

y’know generally i try to limit colour palettes to as few colours as possible to make things more cohesive but despite my best efforts only jay ended up being able to stick to that </3

ANYWAYS here’s the as-of-right-now fully updated designs for these dickheads. these will no doubt undergo even more tweaking as i draw them more but this is a start i guess. also pls open the pictures to look at them properly i worked so hard LOL

some random notes under the cut yaaaay

chip —

he jingles when he walks. somehow he’s still stealthy. i do not know how

kept the platinum ring that bonded him to gillion in the block! because hey he doesn’t really have a reason to take it off (and it’s a nice reminder of how much gill cares about him, and how far their friendship has come since that ice arena)

his tattoos shift and flicker like actual flames, and sometimes (harmless, purely aesthetic) sparks fly off them when he’s excited

i just think smoke coming out of his mouth when he’s angry would be cool :]

chipped teeth from biting rocks and coins all the time :/

he has scars from the red lightning, they’re just mostly contained to his back and shoulders. they’re a similar red to his coat even once they’ve healed

gillion —

the tail sleeve thing is so he can rest it on the ground without damaging his scales, he doesn’t usually wear it when he’s just on the ship because the wood is soft enough that it’s usually fine + it can hinder swimming a bit. it’s mostly meant for places where there’s cobblestone or gravel streets and such. i think his armour would probably have a version that looks similar but covers the whole tail minus the fins, maybe with some armour plating of its own. i didn’t draw it because there wasn’t any room lol

his scars from the lightning are pink mostly because red stood out too much tbh. they softly glow in the dark the same as his coral and the pink parts of his fins

also kept his ring! his hands aren’t really made for jewellery, though, because the webbing means it won’t sit very secure on his finger. so he keeps it on the same chain as the necklace he got from aslana to keep it safe

tried to make him look a bit bulkier and more his age than in my original design? i feel like i was leaning too much into the naivety and. shortness. originally lol. he also has thicker eyebrows now and i’m still trying to decide how i feel about them but i think? i like it? i don’t tend to give many character thin eyebrows so it could’ve been a unique thing for him but alas

i think i made the sword too small but like ignore that

also forgor to include pretzel </3 that’s okay though she can get her own design sheet later. she’s special like that

jay —

i believe in tall jay supremacy

blue magic! i was considering gold but that’d look a bit more like a canary than i wanted for her wings so. blue jay :]

her hair is supposed to look kinda like fire to mimic her dad ! kinda showing that even if she runs from her family and the navy they’ll always be a part of her. and also i just like drawing messy hair

i gave her sturdier gloves just because i feel like it fits her better. also changed up the shirt to more of a button up solely because i don’t like tank tops very much LOL

i did WANT to make her outfit a bit flashier to match the boys better but i couldn’t quite figure out where to Put the flash. maybe that’ll come later, the way the story’s going i might get to design some cool prosthetics for her or something

overall —

because there’s just so many fucking colours i triiied to add at least one or two colours from each of them into the others designs. jay has her necklace with each of their main colours on it, her wings are the same blue as gillions eyes, her jacket and right eye are the same dark blue as destiny’s blade, her hair is the same orange as the lighter part of chips tattoos. chip has a dark green sash under all the belts, the same as the hilt of destiny’s blade. they all use the same shades of black, gold, and brown

the only real exception is gillion doesn’t have anything from the other two because he has Such a specific colour palette and he already had so much going on as-is orz jay was obviously the easiest to do this with because she has both warm and cool colours in her palette by default lol (and i did her design last, so that helps)