Bye, axolotl!

Yesterday the axolotl was bought! And today, after work, I scrambled to put together the corresponding card in time for the post office's dropoff time. Buuuut I didn't quite make it. It is now 9 PM, and I just finished composing the text for it. Tomorrow morning it is.

edit: It is now 11 PM, and I finally finished it. No natural lighting at this ungodly hour, so my desktop lamp will have to do:

Bye, first hyena!

Yesterday, November 24, I had my first sale. And today I bade adieu to one of my favorite hyenas:
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It was an extra-rush order for someone whose birthday was today, so getting the card ready in a few hours was a challenge. Writing it made me realize that, by golly, I have fallen disgracefully out of practice in composing wads of informative text. Fortunately, after a hot wings and video art break, I managed to mold it into something coherent.

I then drew til way after midnight. I enjoyed the heck out of that. I don't draw very often these days, and getting back into it was exhilarating. I ended up pretty pleased with the results, and not just because I was half-delirious from sleep deprivation.

Bye, little yeener!

Ah, and today, I had a second sale already! I am beginning to suspect I should maybe be preparing these things in advance. But that would be too simple.

Pink thing status: saccharine

I generally try, at least in theory, not to go for "cute". I am trying to go for something at least somewhat scientific. The process of making creturs makes me familiar with their structure and details, and I want to transmit to the viewer some of the learning experience of it. The hyenas are kind of forcedly cute because they are so small; details like toes get blurred out in the scale and details like sex organs (fascinating as hyenas' sex organs are) are kind of censored in the spirit of a G rating. But then there's critters like the axolotl, around the cuteness of which there is no way.

Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) 

Almost there!

This one should be done by tonight, I think. Oh dear I'm late for work.

Further progress on the pink thing.

Can you guess what it is? ENNHH?

Finished hoatzin! And on to the next cretur..

Almost done with the hoatzin

His legs broke, gotta make him new ones.

A wealth of hyenas, two pigs, and a bird in progress

FINISHED THINGS

A progress in a similar direction

Soon: a shop!

The Kitchen Table