mallard-duck - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

"My precious…"

llama - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

Smoking llama

bushbird - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

A very funny and rare bird. No time for coloring today though.

toco-toucan - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

grasshopper - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

t-rex - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

As you have noticed, I've changed the title of this project to CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE, since it was inevitably moving into direction of character design. The idea of humanoid animals remains though.

I was struggling half a day with bad paper. Thus I realized, once again, there is nothing better than water color paper!

sparrow - CHARACTER DESIGN CHALLENGE

The mean, terrifying captain Sparrow. Don't mess with his worms!

american coot - HUMANOID ANIMALS

Finally I could identify the bird that fascinated me in Netherlands, it was American coot. Great mystery is hereby solved!

silver carp - HUMANOID ANIMALS

A mixture of my home-town fish, the silver carp (толстолобик) and Indian woman:

squirrel - HUMANOID ANIMALS

Wow! I made 100 characters/illustrations!