So as a way to inspire myself to start drawing more, I'm going to finally use this account for something productive and upload a handful of older sketches I have laying around from the past 3 or 4 years to get a bit of a gallery going. I have a really bad habit of drawing for a week or two, and then putting down the pencils for a very long time before ever picking it up again. Maybe I can finally fix that. Despite being older work, constructive criticism won't be brushed off, although I'm very aware of a lot of the flaws in my art, lol.

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In early 2015, I decided to make a series of drawings based on my main circle of friends in the style of a graphic novel series I was starting to get obsessed with, Mouse Guard (http://www.mouseguard.net/). After asking each of them what their weapons of choice were, I went to work designing them all in the style of David Petersen's work, using the graphic novels as reference. I made it a point to challenge myself with poses - without directly tracing a pose from the novels - as a way to break myself out of my "head-on pose" phase.

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This is actually the piece based on myself, so...I guess you could call it Derek Mousetail. I have mixed feelings about this one, but overall, I think I like it. Despite what the copy/paste above says, this was based on a pose of another piece of art (seen here: https://prettyuglylittleliar.net/up.....c03e9a8a31.jpg ). Most of the problems come from my attempt at transferring the pose from a human character to a mouse anatomy. But hey, I tried coloring/inking, which...could have turned out much worse. Regardless of how many nitpicks I have, there's something about it I'm still attached to.