[Art] Preliminary sketches for Tufted Deer, Arctic Hare and Cape Hare

[moonvoice]

Well, when you get pinged, you get pinged.

It never takes me long to sketch these out anyway. It's that dastardly inking process that gets me.


Arctic Hare






Cape Hare





Tufted Deer

Comments

[freysmuppet]

Oh wow, these are going to be awesome.

[bunny_m]

Oh hells, yes!

(Also: Eeeee!Sabretoothdeer!Eeeeeeeeee!)

*dies from teh ky00t*

[Edit:] So, are these commissions and I'll have to console myself with prints, or will they be snaffle-able?

*feels the need to get some more of Amazing!Pia!Art*

[moonvoice]

These are all snaffle-able, $89 each. :D

[moonvoice]

I hope so! :D

[hrafn]

Wait, what? Deer has FANGS?! o.O

[moonvoice]

DEER HAZ FANGZORZ!

[hrafn]

It will distract you with its cuteness and then SUCK UR BLOOD!11!

It has the perfect "I am so cute and trustworthy MWAHAHA EEEEEVIL" expression.

[silverjackal]

I'll be very interested in seeing how Arctic Hare develops because of course that's a species I know in the flesh. Even at this early stage I really like how you have the "hare"-ness of Cape Hare expressed. They're similar to our Jack rabbits (actually hares), and I can see the relationship shining from the page. The deer is glorious, but then I have a particular "thing" for the "primitive" deer species. I find them endlessly remarkable for the slice of the evolutionary past they show -- obviously because it still works perfectly well. :)

[moonvoice]

Arctic Hare was the first one that pinged me, actually.

The Cape Hare is awesome, those ears! I like muntjacs, but I think I'm a bigger fan of tufted deers. They are so funky looking, like the punks of the deer world.

[birgitriddle]

Deer with fangs. One of the many signs that nature cannot be defined by human thought. XD

[moonvoice]

Heh, I think it's awesome, I wish more herbivores had visible fangs like that.

[unaspenser]

Love the Arctic Hare. All are lovely, though.

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :D

[outlineofash]

Tufted deer!!! SQUEE.

[moonvoice]

Tufted deer of YAY!

[jenniology]

I want to see moar! :D These look amazing.

[moonvoice]

Thank you! :D There will always be moar, I've drawn like hundreds of these.

[amethystfirefly]

VAMPIRE DEER.

Okay, maybe not but still.. XD

[moonvoice]

No no, totally VAMPIRE DEER.
With a little cape and everything.

[amethystfirefly]

I would totally commission that from you if I had the money. XD

[eldriwolf]

Lovely beasts!

I once dreamed a unicorn with fangs like that...

[moonvoice]

Ooooh, now a unicorn with fangs totally wouldn't surprise me! That would be awesome.

[zuki_san]

I remember seeing the tufted deer taxidermy at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. I squealed with delight, and my companions looked at me strangely. I'm not sure if they were more surprised that I already knew about them, or that I was so excited.

There were similar reactions to my explaining how tree kangaroos climbed without the benefit of the little instructional video, or when we got to the meteorite room and I groped and hugged the ones that said 'please touch'

[moonvoice]

Maybe they were surprised at both things? Some people just don't understand how freaking inspiring and exciting-making nature is. :D I do the same thing when I see a new species of wild orchid in the bushland that I haven't seen before.

There were similar reactions to my explaining how tree kangaroos climbed without the benefit of the little instructional video

The answer is; 'not very well.' Those guys take more drops out of trees than just about any other tree climbing mammal/marsupial. It's hilarious. It's like they got hired for a job that no one is willing to fire them for, because they're so adorable.

[allati]

Awwww, TEEFY DEER. I luff you teefy deer, cousin to my own teefy deer.

Cape hare looks... startled. O_O!

[moonvoice]

Teefy deer are awesome because they are teefy. Also this one has a punk rock hairstyle, which is maybe working towards my favour too.

[ariestess]

I am already in love with the Arctic Hare and the Tufted Deer... Not that the Cape Hare isn't good, but I am drawn to the other two...