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Tomorrow's SJ features a certain bear, and as such has taken quite a lot of effort to draw. I've received flak in the past for SJ's noticeable preference for big cats and dearth of most other species, particularly bears. Well the simple truth is that I have a lot of trouble drawing decent bears, and so I tend to avoid it.

So last night, after a lot of frustrated erasing, I suddenly thought, "Duh! Who knows bears better than Herbie? He only helped animate the premiere bear movie of the past decade."

So I called up my "Herbie: All You Can Eat" CD-ROM and studied the "bears" section for several minutes, then went back and tried again, with better (if still not perfect) results. Hopefully tonight I can clean it up enough to make a halfway decent final inking. With the holiday crunch coming, I think I'm definitely going to have to do "Character Q&A" sketches for the next two weeks, if only because I'm not going to be home often enough to sit down at the drawing table for more than a few minutes at a time.

Alas! But I can always use the practice.

-The Gneech

Date: 2004-12-16 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maxgoof.livejournal.com
Hey, you can draw Stargazer and his nephew, Dipper, any time you want to for practice.

Not that I'm hinting, or anything...

Date: 2004-12-16 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigtig.livejournal.com
What's wrong with big cats? :)

yeahyeahyeah. I know. Everyone always pushes for their own thing.

Date: 2004-12-16 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kylet.livejournal.com
Ditto!

I feel your pain, tho, Gneech. Most of my initial bears looked like very odd dogs. Chow chows, I guess ;-)

Date: 2004-12-16 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] susandeer.livejournal.com
I'm rather enjoying being one of a few, if not the only, person doing much with deer! @:) You might say I've become an expert in the field! Or meadow, as it were...

Can't wait to see da bears, Gneech!

Date: 2004-12-16 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhanlav.livejournal.com
DA' BEARS! Spiffy. Herbie is da' bomb. I really should look at that art CD I got of his, now that your showing off his art.

And its sokay TG. Not many folks draw ferrets either. So its cool. Folks like to draw their own stuff and you should be happy. Happy! Weeee!

By the way, I can't draw bears either. ^_^;

--Salen

I Understand...

Date: 2004-12-16 11:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joeygatorman.livejournal.com
I couldn’t draw Katie Kodiak that well in that piece of fan-art I drew for you over a year ago. I don’t know why bears are so hard to draw!

Date: 2004-12-17 12:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trpeal.livejournal.com
Aside from my two main characters, I chose what I thought were more off-the-beaten-path species for FCE: A boar, a rat, an elephant, and eventually a bear. Although some people mistook (and mistake, probably) Fubaar for a lion....

Elephants, Gneech. More elephants!

Date: 2004-12-17 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bjbuttons.livejournal.com
"Tomorrow's SJ features a certain bear"

Hmmmmmmm I wonder who that bear could be ?

Date: 2004-12-17 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herbiehamill.livejournal.com
Wow. Ok, I teach you how to draw bears if you teach me how to write. Deal? :)
Thanks for the compliment. But I am honored an artist of your caliber would refer to my art. Your art rocks!

Date: 2004-12-17 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com
u both rox!
*wing fuzzles yuz*

Date: 2004-12-17 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-gneech.livejournal.com
So said the master to the grasshopper! 0.o

*tries to refrain from going all fanboy*

As for writing, I'd be happy to help! ^.^

-TG

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