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Hi friends. I've got a lot to share today.

First off, here's a new work in progress:

Many more hours of fun still to go! This stag had a disorder that caused his velvet-covered antlers to grow pendulous lumps. Looking forward to the tedious rendering ahead.

In a similar vein, here's a bunny skull, which incidentally is the type of skull on my new homepage.

Not quite finished! Sylvilagus floridanus

  Just brushing up on some observational drawing.

Next up, some work from the & In One Another project. My motto for this project is "bad ideas, hastily executed."

#6 MAP FROM THE PAST

#7 BAD COLOR

 Which started me on a tangent outside of the sketchbook:

Which turned out to be pretty creepy. So I marched on.

#8 THEIR LIFE UNIFORM

 I like to think of this guy as the rabbit version of Ziggy Stardust. Based on a very strange rabbit, Pentalagus furnessi.

#8 THEIR LIFE UNIFORM

 Take two.

#11 FIVE SIMPLE MACHINES

There are many more terrible ideas I haven't shown you, but may someday. When you're older.

I believe there are 30 assignments total, so there will be many more appearing here soon. Doing really bad drawings based on worse ideas is...refreshing.

Finally, a special treat. I walked into my office last week to find this on my desk:

such tiny hands!

A stack of portraits (of me!) executed by Montserrat Illustration class of '08, as part of a group assignment. The one above is by far my favorite, done by Illustration Chair and Professor Fred Lynch. You should check out his teaching blog. Anyway, I couldn't keep a treasure like that to myself, so there you are.

Best,
Chelsea