it's a puppy?!

So I'm getting stuff ready for an art-spam post of sketchbook #6 and it reminded me of how effortless it is to fill up a sketchbook when all you do is copy ... ahem ... do studies of other artists work. Especially when the original artists market themselves towards children. I hated, hated, hated sketchbook #6 (I'll save the details of that rant for that post) and decided that the way to cope was to get it over with as quickly as possible. (I finished an entire sketchbook in a month!) And that meant following a lot of YouTube "How to Draw" tutorials. I started out thinking I was going to take things more seriously and there are a few pages full of studies of noses and ears, et cetera, but it very quickly devolved into tutorials aimed at little kids and I have to tell you that it was the most fun ever.

So yesterday, I decided to set aside the cataloging project and watched a "Draw So Cute" video on how to draw Cinnamoroll. And then when I was done, I looked the character up because I was sure "Cinnamoroll" must be a typo. That can't be how you spell the name of that bunny, right? And I learned that Cinnamoroll is a puppy.


I messed up the paws, but whatever. The best part of art aimed at kids is that even when it turns out wonky, it's still cute.

Drawesome Prompt #58: Freedom

I played around with digital coloring it, but other than the rainbow icon, I wasn't happy with any of my coloring efforts so I'm leaving the original in the sketchbook monochrome.