Meet Aristotle, the Baby Vervet
All in all, the drawing wasn't that difficult once I'd worked out how to simplify the source photo down to match Ardvark's style, but I did have quite a bit of "artist's block" trying to get myself to sit down and work on him. I was afraid it wasn't going to come out, so I wasn't going ahead with it at all.
Now that I've gotten the first draft done, I'm pretty happy with it. I have to decide if I want to leave him with articulated hands and feet or if I want to simplify them down once more to "mitts" to facilitate drawing lots of these guys, but I think I'm going to leave them as is.
Meanwhile, for those of you interested in playing around with the source drawings, I've made a bunch of updates to the SVG's. Remember, you'll need the free and open Inkscape to open these properly. Here they are:
- All 3 Drawings of Ardvark laid out on one page.
- Aristotle, the Baby Vervet
