2019 National Dog Show Sketches!

It's that time of year again!  My current Sketchbook is a Design Ideation LS Paint, and it's pretty nice so far.  Anyway, on to the doggies.  It's tradition after all.

2018 National Dog Show Sketches!

I've done this three times now, so it's officially a tradition.  My current Sketchbook is on the small side (more on that later) so you're getting two big table-wrecking montages:

Sketches from the National Zoo

To keep things succinct, let me just say that the National Zoo is more awesome than I ever expected.

Icariid Species Sheet Sketch Montage

I recently finished one of the most downright enjoyable commissions I've ever had the pleasure to be assigned. Some time ago, Lucia Cochrane-Davis asked me to help her visualize her birdlike fantasy race, the Icariids. She gave me a wonderfully detailed description, and the creature design eventually wound up being a full-on species sheet. Here is a montage of the many sketches I drew during the process:



Montage of Sketches for the Icariid Species Sheet by ~babbletrish on deviantART

Looking back on these, it's mostly the facial design that got altered the most. Aside from that, I liked the woman in the lower-right ever since I first drew her and she's in the final version as well almost exactly as she appears here; I just needed to straighten out her tail feathers.