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I like the animation in these creatures (no pun intended). Devoid of pupils in their eyes, they still each maintain their own characters… a very hard accomplishment for an artist, yet seemingly overcome with ease.

Thanks guys! Yes I thought about adding pupils, but decided to leave them white.

haha awesome. they remind me of animals collecting funny shiny things to put in their nest. :) always amuses me.

A cool set. I like the way all three sets of creatures seem to be struggling with their partner for control of the crown.

Very Good Call on the pupil thing!!

Black chalk?

you convey so much info through posture! Putting them into one continuous strip adds a strong narrative element…

BTW did you mean for the safe filter to be on?

Love it Love it Love it…........

Haha Kimberly…probably. I like shiny things too!!

I put the safe filter on in case any monarchists out there took offence to ratty paws touching such an important symbol. Hehe kidding…not sure why that box was ticked…fixed now!

Awesome work I especially love the rat on the right hand side I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could thro him u have superb talent!

I never tire of your work! Always such detail, yet simplicity of form… Wonderful! (Prefer the images as individual pieces as shown on the side.)

Sorry me again… I also meant to say that the blank eyes really add to the overall sense of intrigue these creatures have.

love the concept,and as always beautiful illustrations.

this is gorgeous, i adore your technique so much. loving the crows the best!

Beautiful work!

oh i would just have a field day making up stories for these characters! great great great work!

Aww, the rats! Adorable. Love your style.

Just wonderful, you have a very real talent :o)

very nice

Very nice indeed.

Beautiful work !

Awesome work Firedrake I like how you used the medium and the animal characters :)

How fabulous!!

Spectacular & really awesome

fantastic work, my three favourite animals (not including beakfaces)

Thanks everyone! Carmen I thought about putting up the 3 separately – but didn’t want to bomb people’s activity monitors…and thought if people liked the set they probably wouldn’t buy all 3. Hmm..if anyone wants to buy just the one, let me know!
The sneaky rat on the right is my favourite. He is the naughtiest.

Spectacular piece Firedrake!

as always love your work and love your style. keep them coming. well done.

These are beautifully done. They also could be in the humorous illustration group because they have a sly humour.

They do look a mistrustful bunch…partners in crime maybe. I like the way you’ve kept the colour choice neutral…as it doesn’t distract the eye and adds to the piece(s).

I’d love to do an art lesson with you and learn some of your technique! I love the characters you do and the situations you put them in tooo!!!

Great work

See comment I just made on Helmet … wonderful work.

this one is my favourite!

clever bro- hearing myself assuming when we know i dont know a thing. sweet piece

i think they look great without the pupils.. gives them a more sinister look.. love this piece~

GREAT. I love your works.

These are great as a set… the repetition really adds to the mystery and narrative. I can’t help imagining the story behind these sneaky-looking characters.

Hmm… I have pet rats and the poses off them is actually quite familiar – if I was to analyse their behaviour then I from experience I would say that the one on the right is dominant and basically challenging the other to oppose him. Do you have pet rats by any chance then?

Lol yeah… I’ve stopped taking them and letting them run around my room now. The presents were under my bed in a concentrated pile that had built up over half a year before we noticed and moved the bed. They can still run around the kitchen with laminate floor now though.

Ha ha yeah… we have a couple of rats where the instant we put any ‘rat nuggets’ (small pellets of stuff, supposedly food) they quickly transfer all from the bowl at the top to various piles around the base of the cage. They are then left untouched for ages… – we have to put them back in the bowls else they just won’t eat them.

I don’t think we’ve had that before. Once though we had one of our rats running around the lounge and he sneaked through a gap behind the supporty-thing for the TV (there is a cabinety thing about half a foot of the ground and on that is the TV). He then decided that he liked it there in the gap where we couldn’t retrieve him and we had to leave him there all day (he wouldn’t come out for food cos he was quite old and not particularly hungry – even cheese) We eventually just left him there overnight and caught him in the morning when he was running around again. Sneaky things, all of them…

Beautiful work xx

My fave are the crows…
:)
Love it!

Fascinating piece. Great work.