I think it’s impossible for someone who has ever been shopping for nursery furniture EVER in their life, to see the word SAFARI and not think of cute, pudgy jungle animals. That word is forever softened in my brain -- don’t blame me, blame Babies ’R Us.
Now that my little jungle animal is old enough to safari on his own (or at least pretend), it’s rare to find him trudging through the backyard, or the park, or to the dinner table any day of the week without his khaki explorer vest on and a pair of binoculars hanging around his neck. For this weeks illustration theme, Matthew joined me in raiding our bookshelf for a little inspiration, where we found a lot of pictures of terrible, toothy deaths offset by cute baby animals at play. Matthew peeked up at me from over a page where baby lions were crouching behind rocks and pouncing over one another, and asked if they play pretend like he does -- and from that outrageously adorable question, these guys were born.
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dang babies r us! lol.
Love this piece... and love the explanation! Kids can bring so much inspiration.
(I also wanted to mention that your blog is not loading anything but the banner in IE8... might check it out.)
love the ears on the elephant. sweet illustration!
Huh.. Wonder what that's about. Thanks for letting me know. :-)
Oh! I love the elephant! Such a sweet piece... gotta love the inspiration from the little guys :)
So darling, love the zebra.
love all those safari animals!!
Oh my goodness...those are the sweetest safari animals! LOVE the elephant!
So cute!!
That is so cute! I love how they make a great team together!
These are just perfect and so adorable!
adorable... so cute .... I love the elephant , his expression and trunk stretching upwards....
This is soo adorable! ... and YES, safari theme when shopping for nursery is everywhere, but none as cute as your illustration, I must say!! Ho and that elephant with the safari hat, I adore! Beautiful work, as always. :)
Naw, cute! Such expressive characters.
Adorable! Love the polka dots too!
Thanks everyone! I was really disappointed that the lion cub’s outline washed out so much when I uploaded the drawing. He was definitely my favorite in the original sketch, but elephant kind of steals the show now. Throws it all off with him being in the background, but I’m glad everyone seems to like him! I’ll have to adjust my cub later on so that he pops off the page more. I’m anxiously awaiting an actual scanner so that I don’t have to take crummy photos of my drawings in order to get them onto the computer anymore. :-/
They are adorable!
oh this is soo cute. I really like to pose of the little lion and the zebra's expression :)
This is really really cute! Little safari babies on safari--clever! Nicely drawn, too!
These are really cute :) and I like the way they were 'born' :)
Really cute illustration
Oh my gosh these are so cute! Your illustrations are adorable!
the lion, definitely !
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