Another few pictures...
This is the menagerie...
As I got bored in lectures. I wonder what the lecturer would have said... Oh well, I was sat at the back anyway... Just a random busload of weird creatures.
Lalala.
Edit: After my bloody stupid eighteen-hundredth attempt at getting this stupid bloody thing to work, using a variety of codes and links and suchlike, it still manages to mangle my URLs into irrecognisability, so sod it. I'll fix it later. B*stard thing.
These next few are of "Ballu" - he's an ant-bird (like an anteater, but a bird). He has wings a little like a hoatzin, with claws on the "hand" joints, and long claws for breaking open ant-nests, so he walks on his knuckles to stop them getting damaged. He can fly, but not very well, as his wings are a bit scraggly. His "beak" is just a hollow tube: it has a series of small plates that close the tip so he can use it like a hammer/pick, a little like the way a limpet closes its shell...
This was the first draft of a picture of him... His eyes are the right size on this one, on later pictures they got a bit too big...
And in colour... These were the worst coloured pencils in the world ever I was trying to colour this with; horrible scratchy cheap little ones, hence why the colours look so scrappy. Took four hours to colour, as opposed to the usual one or two...
And a couple of bits and pieces about colouration... He folds his wings differently to the average earthly bird - tucks them away under his arm-wing, as that way they're out of the way better.
