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After finishing the Realistic Furret in May 2011, I turned my eyes on its pre-evolved form. The truth is, I wanted to do a short comic where the punchline had something to do wtih Furret's inner child (this is actually why I hadn't posted it yet: I didn't want to ruin the punchline when the comic finally went up). It was because of this punchline that I realized I knew nothing of Sentret's anatomy and needed to, so I set to work to finding out.
When I started this drawing, the first thing that stumped me is that, officially, Sentret has no neck. There is no muzzle, no chin, and thus, no jaw. Now, for a realistic drawing, I couldn’t have that! In our reality, such a thing simply does not exist!
This clearly was cartoon shorthand for something, but what? I racked my brains trying to think what other non-Pokémon cartoon characters shared this problem, and my thoughts landed on Looney Tunes' Tasmanian Devil. What do real Tasmanian Devils look like? Well, basically like a weasel with the muzzle of a bear. Did this mean the absence of a chin was cartoon shorthand for a bear muzzle? I looked at the original concept for the Pokémon Ursaring (for those who don't know Pokémon, or Latin, Ursaring it's a bear with a ring on its belly), and found the answer to be yes! Then I did a facepalm: how did Sentret glaringly obvious belly ring not tip me off?
Of course, there was another problem: Sentret is one of the original “baby Pokémon,” and if there's one thing that makes an animal look older, it's a big muzzle. So I kept the chin as the only bear-like feature, and played around with the nose bridge until I was happy with it. To make the muzzle still look bear-like, I drew an imaginary line around it, and put really short fur from that line to the nose, and not-so-short fur from that line to the back of the head.
For what to do with the hands, I looked at meerkats, and for the tail, at boxing kangaroos. You can probably see the original kangaroo tail I drew beneath all the fur.
Sentret is copyrighted by The Pokémon Company.
When I started this drawing, the first thing that stumped me is that, officially, Sentret has no neck. There is no muzzle, no chin, and thus, no jaw. Now, for a realistic drawing, I couldn’t have that! In our reality, such a thing simply does not exist!
This clearly was cartoon shorthand for something, but what? I racked my brains trying to think what other non-Pokémon cartoon characters shared this problem, and my thoughts landed on Looney Tunes' Tasmanian Devil. What do real Tasmanian Devils look like? Well, basically like a weasel with the muzzle of a bear. Did this mean the absence of a chin was cartoon shorthand for a bear muzzle? I looked at the original concept for the Pokémon Ursaring (for those who don't know Pokémon, or Latin, Ursaring it's a bear with a ring on its belly), and found the answer to be yes! Then I did a facepalm: how did Sentret glaringly obvious belly ring not tip me off?
Of course, there was another problem: Sentret is one of the original “baby Pokémon,” and if there's one thing that makes an animal look older, it's a big muzzle. So I kept the chin as the only bear-like feature, and played around with the nose bridge until I was happy with it. To make the muzzle still look bear-like, I drew an imaginary line around it, and put really short fur from that line to the nose, and not-so-short fur from that line to the back of the head.
For what to do with the hands, I looked at meerkats, and for the tail, at boxing kangaroos. You can probably see the original kangaroo tail I drew beneath all the fur.
Sentret is copyrighted by The Pokémon Company.
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Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
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