House Drudal

House drudals are considered domesticated animals and can be interesting pets. However, they are also considered to be dangerous due to their aggressive behavior, particularly toward other pets, and should only be kept by experienced owners.


These animals have two sets of eyes; one that perceives visible light, and another that can sense infrared light. The drudal’s second pair of eyes increases the ability of its wild counterparts to hunt in caves and at night. They also make the house drudal an excellent mouser.

Height: 14-20”
Weight: 50-80 lbs

Wolf Calendar

It's an absolutely terrible time of year to make a calendar, but I believe this one is justified.

Nearly every other wolf calendar available is filled with photos from the free domain.  Many of those containing original photos contain wolfdogs and/or dogs.  A few actually have good, original photographs of actual wolves, but they're usually all of the same set of individuals, namely, the Wolf Park wolves, or the same weather, which gets rather dull after a while.

And I'm not just talking about Zazzle.  Professionally published calendars are the same.  I just got a daily wolf calendar in which every photo was shot at the same facility, so the calendar only has 6 or so different wolves.

This calendar is different, though; 12 full-color original photos from five different facilities, with 4 varieties of wolf (including the red wolf) and perhaps 10 different individuals.

And a bison calf.

It's currently available on Zazzle.

Random Sketchdump

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Various sketches from my Charlie the Unicorn sketchbook, drawn between the summer of last year (2010) and today (February 2, 2011).

The first three in the top left are GM rodents (the third being a no-nonsense scientist character) and the top-right is meant to be a T-shirt design (it's a bit of a pun, really).  The humans on the bottom are a few of my human characters, Micheal "The Ferret" Feriett and General Halsev, (and his adventurous white cat, Albert) playing video games.  I'm guessing it's Super Mario Brothers on Playstation 2 :D

Guinea Pig Tricks


Hazel Lee does a few tricks for us here, including the standard "doacircle" trick.  She'll actually "doacircle" in both directions, but didn't feel like going "otherway" this particular day.

I didn't get around to teaching my last guinea pig, Acorn, any tricks early enough for her to be at all interesting in that aspect, (she was in every other, so it's all good) but she could "doacircle" and we would pass a little wooden cylinder back and forth every so often.  Our favorite game was blocks; I would hand Acorn a block, and if she approved of it, she would take it from my hand and drop it.  It was more fun than it sounds, trust me XD

Hazel Lee is proving to be a smart cookie, though; despite her general dislike of being outside of her cage, petted, or cuddled, it looks like we could become good friends through training :)

Manatee~!

Photoshop Elements 6 and Bamboo Fun Tablet

Products with this digi-art are available in my Zazzle shop.

Animal Factoid Mugs

The season for sales is more or less over, and perhaps it is the wrong time to create new mug designs, but I did anyway.

Each mug shows a photograph of an animal, its common name, its Latin name, and a few interesting tidbits about the species.  If that's too geeky for you, I also have several mugs with the names and photo, but no factoids.

In other Zazzle news, the Cuddly Critters series is now available on mugs, mousepads, iPad cases, magnets, and coasters!  Here's the set so far:

Of course, these aren't all of the designs; be sure to check my Zazzle shop for more!

And if you don't see your favorite animal, feel free to request a critter or two or three or nineteen!  Otherwise, you can expect to see at least some of the following in the future:

• Cheetah
• Tiger (Amur or Sumatran... or both)
• Red panda
• Great horned owl
• African wild dog
• Amur leopard
• Northern hawk owl
• Ocelot
• Clouded leopard

Holy Cats! A Human!

Goodness, I've been sketching humans on and off for over a year now, with a great deal of human-sketching recently.  Even some nothing-but-human sketching.  This is the first I've done digitally, but my goal is to be able to draw each individual character consistently, anatomically correct, and distinct from the others without relying on hair styles and clothing.

I still have a long way to go.  Critique and/or redlining would be wonderful.

This character's supposed to be female.  A cyborg and not very feminine, but a female nonetheless.  A loooong way to go.