So I've been reading (well, listening to) Ruth Plumly Thompson's novel The Cowardly Lion of Oz, free to read at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58765 ... and one of the antics that The Cowardly Lion and the guest stars for this book get into is journeying to the bottled city of Preservatory, where the Cookywitch has preserved all the inhabitants, including the animals, in glass jars. How could I resist that theme? And it gave me the chance to try figuring how to draw something that looks like it's touching the insides of a piece of glass.
Their legs below the knees stick out in the original text, it's right there in chapter sixteen (along with a couple John R Neill illustrations).
If you want to read the book, it's a good deal of fun, but be aware that Thompson decided for some reason that the Mudge people, who set the important plot in action, should be her circa 1921 idea of what Arabian people might be like if they were Munchkins. I don't know why she imagined that was necessary.
I'd like to definitely say I was drawing some kind of mustelid here but I think I somehow managed not to hit any particular animal shape. Sorry.
Their legs below the knees stick out in the original text, it's right there in chapter sixteen (along with a couple John R Neill illustrations).
If you want to read the book, it's a good deal of fun, but be aware that Thompson decided for some reason that the Mudge people, who set the important plot in action, should be her circa 1921 idea of what Arabian people might be like if they were Munchkins. I don't know why she imagined that was necessary.
I'd like to definitely say I was drawing some kind of mustelid here but I think I somehow managed not to hit any particular animal shape. Sorry.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
Species Mustelid (Other)
Size 989 x 1280px
File Size 157.2 kB
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