I didn’t proportion it correctly and so the snout is a bit shorter than it should be. I’ll sketch this again to try to get the proportions right.
Eight points
Hubby found this skull in the pasture where he trains the dogs. The deer died of natural (but unknown) causes.
(My “art studio” is a couple of towels draped over a dining room chair.)
Sketch 031: Deer Skull
I think it’s a cactus root. My sketch makes it look as if it’s been attacked by watermelon seeds.
Cactus root, probably
Sketch 030: Cactus Root
I spent a whole lot of time on the face. At times, it looked like Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, a sea lion, and a hog.
Polar Bear by Francois Pompon
This was the Artwork of the Day for today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sketch 029: Polar Bear, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1930
Looks like an alien-bred Corgi, to me
Needs a longer neck. Somehow how I can only see these things as I’m uploading the photos.
Bright eyes
Tiny deer
Sketch 028: Avon Deer, from the 1970s
Mostly the right shape
I added some darker shading under the mouth and on the cheeks but it started to look like Captain Kangaroo‘s mustache so I erased it.
Cat trinket
Tiny cat
Sketch 027, Cat Trinket
It's a long story ... 