Must be February again. 29 Finished Another Year of extra longness, congrats everyone!

Well then Matt today is for you. Though to be fair I had done it before I saw your comment. And thanks, birds are fun.

Pen-guin

Who else but owls now.

yeah dude, these are fantastic!! and kudos for doing them with a pen!

Dude, those anatomy studies back there! There's some real breakthrough understanding of volume coming through. Love it!

Matt, I love drawing straight to pen. I dunno why as I usually hate the errant line that inevitably crops up, but it's fun.

Ty, thanks! I got that book along with a loomis one and still have yet to work through them. I have planned to work with them more this month, but have been on said bird kick. Will re-visit later as you mentioned something clicked on how I saw form after reading it.

Chikn

Here's more animals

Couch is for Closers

Computer broke. This makes life fun.

love the use of pen, and those birds are really cool

Thanks Rikert
Here's random photos from twitter.

Some bunny stop me. It's too late for this. Tomorrow I'll have process photos of dogplanter. I'm just too tired tonight.

Look at those fluffy buns!

Matt- All the fluff! Still trying to nail down how to make them look fluffy dusty.

OK, photodump time. First one is obligatory drawing, but after that comes Dog/Tree Planter!

First two are where I left off after 2 hours last night. Really just the rough shape.


Spent an hour paddling some shape into him. then got the neck ready to slip and score on some coils.


Post coil.

I didn't get any process photos of throwing the bowl I attached on as the mouth. Sorry I was alone and I got sloppy... But here's after I attached it and added slab teeth and ears to him.


And this final round is with added pinch pot eyeballs and nose, with slab tail. He's mostly done at this point, will just go in this weekend to cut the drain hole in his butt and smooth out the rough edges.




You made it to the end. I didn't get a photo of the drain pan, but I made a rectangle that has a puddle shape his butt drains into. Classy as hell. I'm going to put a money tree in him.
I think I've clocked about 8 or 9 hours of work on this now. I'm out of practice... That's what 10 years without a clay lab will do to skills.

This is beautiful, Jay. Love seeing your step-by-step process for creating this.

Also, your various animal sketches are gorgeous. Really nice penmanship.

Thanks John, glad you like it. I'm going to go in and check on him on Sunday. Then the kiln!
I'm late tonight, forgot to draw before I went to a Magic Draft. But I still came home and drew so there is that...
Bugz

Scarab

Mantis Mouths are Messed-Up.

Final Day menagerie.

You did some serious leveling this time out, man. Awesome to see the improvement. And kudos for mixing it up with some 3D!

Ty said it before I could. You have seriously leveled up over the past year, and it was super cool to see you improve over the month. Badass.