Illustration Friday - Prehistoric Sketch

Here is the sketch I've worked up for IF's Prehistoric.    Now, to find time to paint it!

Ella knew that her mother would not understand.   She would come up with some motherly words of wisdom like "Ella, we don't bring stray mammoth's home with us, do we dear?" or "How would you feel if you were a mammoth; would you want to be trapped inside or allowed to roam free?"  She said the very same thing last week when Ella brought home a lizard she found on her way home from school.   But this was different.  How could she possibly turn Rocky away?  He was so fuzzy and cute.  It's not every day a kid finds an actual mammoth.  Especially since they are supposed to be prehistoric or something.  Now... if she could just fit him in her closet.

See the finished piece over at Smells Like Crayons.

Moleskine Sketches - Thinking

Moleskine Sketches - Soccer

Moleskine Sketches - Bandana

I found time for a few more quick sketches.
(This is one of my favorites ... it reminds me of my youngest).

Moleskine Sketches - Nightmare

Moleskine Sketches - Snooty

Moleskine Sketches - Pudding

Just for fun: Pummy

I've been spending most of my drawing time lately working on sketches/text for a picture book dummy.  You can see some of those sketches in my previous posts; however, this morning, the last week before school, as the girls and I sat around the kitchen table after breakies, we were feeling silly.  The girls wanted me to draw a picture of Pummy for them.  So out came my sketchbook.

Pummy is a rough and tumble, one-eyed (yellow) cat from the book we've been reading at bed time: "The Calder Game" by Blue Balliett.  Pummy is a cat from the story.  He's not even a central character in the story, but my kids love him because of his name.  They laugh every time it's mentioned.

So, this morning, I started out with a cat.  With an eye-patch, but was told that "that's not what Pummy looks like."  The eye-patch was discarded.  Then they started singing a song about Pummy having been to a circus, hence the balloon.  And of course, he needed a little play thing too... the mouse.   Pummy seems so disagreeable, that we were certain he'd have a tattoo, although, I'm not quite sure what a cat tattoo would look like but I gave it shot anyway.