#pet cartoons

[wekny]

Purrkour!

#cat #pets #funny #lol #black cat #cute cats #cats of tumblr #funny stuff #cartoon #funny shit #warrior cats

[grickle14]

Afternoon ritual.

#grickledoodle #naps #pets #pugs #cats #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

[doctorbeth]

A happy colorful monster

Have you heard of My Pet Monster? It's a cartoon from 1986, which had one season (also apparently there's a live movie). You can stream it if you like. But for the purposes of this story, the most important fact is that the star was a very colorful smily, monster. And in January of last year, one of the cuddly plush versions was discovered in the back of a closet (so I guess he was a moonlighting as a closet monster?).

In any case, his original person found him, and wanted to gift him to his own daughters, but this monster had clearly had a rough time in the closet. Here is one of his diagnosis photos:

You can see the wound on his chest, and that his teeth are coming out. His feet and hands were vinyl, and had gotten that sticky feel that old vinyl sometimes gets.... and he needed a bath!

It took almost a year, but in December, the monster's family wrote again. Could we schedule treatment and an appointment for him?

Of course! The hospital was pretty full at the beginning of the year (not uncommon) so we scheduled his appointment for early March.

He arrived and the first step was a spa. He's quite large, so he got the large pink tub. :-)

Next he got restuffed, with a heart of original stuffing included ... who knows where his magic is stored, so it's important to keep at least a bit of original stuffing!

For his feet and hands, I can't replicate the printed nails on vinyl, but we didn't really want to do vinyl again anyway for the feel. So his person and I agreed to recover his feet and hands in new black velvet and then give him new nails from felt in the same teal as the originals. Here he is showing off his manicure and pedicure:

And here he is all better... even his fabric surrounding his tusks has been reglued:

and so he flew home to Colorado!

#my pet monster #1980s #1980s cartoons #stuffed animals #stuffed animal repair #stuffed animal hospital #stuffed animal cleaning #monsters #closet monster #monster toy #plush monster

[veryluckyclovers]

I had the wonder pets theme song stuck in my head for like 2 days so I drew them

#I loved this show #the wonder pets #throw back #my art #art #doodle #drawing #nostalgia #cartoons

[le-regrems]

This scene got me and my Silbling cracking, we were the only people besides one lady in cinema that laughed at it. Because it's true, British did steal all of their stuff.

#marvel #marvel comics #anti mcu #spider man #spider people #spider verse movie #across the spiderverse #into the spider verse #spider man: across the spider verse #spiderman india #pet #pavitr prabhakar #spiderman #cartoons #fuck the british #history

[homeofhousechickens]

Taking pictures of this weird man in my house

#Fluffernutter #he looks cursed to me with flash #pigeon #pet pigeon #i know to other people Fluffernutter is this cute cartoon looking pigeon who is adorable. #to me Fluffernutter is a rowdy room mate who humps stuff in front of god and everyone #and he trips over stuff and pretends he ment to do that #he is like a frat boy #a rich one specifically #but he is also my beloved cringe-fail bird

[retrogamingblog2]

Cubone Pet Masks made by mcmaster3d

#pokemon #cubone #halloween #dogs #costumes #cute #gaming #video games #nintendo #dog #pets #halloween costumes #anime #cartoons #90s #gameboy #funny #lol #humor #pet costumes #animals #gifts #merch #etsy #artists #crafts #spooky #costume ideas #retro #nostalgia

[aloneinthedark-eagle]

TOP FUNNY LIKE A JOKE 😄🐈‍⬛🐈🐕

#lol memes #lol #funny jokes #jokes #funny #haha funy #meme humor #humor #meme #funny memes #memes #animal memes #pet #pets #animals video #funny animals #animal lover #unbelievable #animated cartoon #animals #cuteness #cute #cute animals #ha ha funny #animal kingdom #funny meme xd #funny meme haha #kitty #kittens #tom and jerry

[awkward-toons]

Brooke again 🤭

#lps fanart #lps popular #lps art #littlest pet shop popular #littlest pet shop #brooke hayes #art #drawing #artists on tumblr #fan art #digital art #fanart #digital artist #digitalart #cartoonist #cartoons

[daisilynn]

LPS but instead they’re in a band called The Gorillaz what a weird wacky idea…..

#LPS #littlest pet shop #digital art #cartoon #fanart #Sunil #Russell #vinnie #penny king #murdoc #2D #noodle #Hasbro #LPS 2012

[memedokies]

pet commissions :] so silly

#commissions #pet #dog #cat #cartoon

[grickle14]

Passing the time.

#grickledoodle #pets #cats #dogs #art #cartoon #drawing #funny

[ryoalouette]

Oooh got inspired with DPxDC with cameo of other idk, anime cartoon and all that.

Pet Shop of Horrors AU

Of which CW is being a troll, Long Now is visible to several ppl. It's been reported that whoever enters will get creatures that aren't of natural origins. Most of what they get are living blobs that glow alarmingly green. Someone got a floating black cat thing. Another gets some sort of chubby blue bird(?) that can only say Puu. Someone got a literal pink fluff ball that somehow flies around with it's very pink tiny wings.

Damian saw the shop. None of the Batfam sees it. Not even Duke with his meta powers.

So he entered.

CW brought him not a blob though. It's Little Baby Man.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #prompt #anime or cartoon cameo #Little Baby Man #Pet Shop of Horrors AU #non lethal tho #so #Pet Shop of Infinite Realms AU?

[fanyyy444]

You can clearly see that I'm a good, unique and probably PERFECT person because I watched these when I was a child <3

Part 2 here

#childhood #cartoons #cartoon #ni hao kai lan #angelina ballerina #wonder pets #team umizoomi #the backyardigans #strawberry shortcake #dora the explorer #go diego go #curious george #bubble guppies #funny #lol #haha #lmao #meme #random #childhood cartoons #dora #mermaids #moranguinho

[mermaidsbiann]

Y2K Girlies ✨

#my art #bratz #my little pony #mlp #mlp g3 #strawberry shortcake #w.i.t.c.h. #winx club #Winx #lps #littlest pet shop #Barbie #polly pocket #totally spies #cartoons #y2k #2000s childhood #2000s #2000s nostalgia

[trungles]

Processing Process, and More Processing

I made this post free and publicly readable on Patreon, but I'm reposting the whole thing right here too because, well, it's a free post, and I don't want to make you click away from your dashboard if you don't need to. But also if you want to support my work, here's the link to the post.

It's a little bit about cartooning, a little bit about drawing, and then it turns into a eulogy for a chicken.

I wrote “process” more than once, and now the word looks funny and is beginning to lose its meaning to me.

This post is about a few things, and it’s a little bit on the sad end of things. Nothing dire! No worries. There’s just a little mention of death, just as a heads up.

Before we get to that, though, I’ve been doing some work and had some thoughts.

I’m often asked about how I draw the noodle hair on my characters, and the answer is typically that I draw each and every line with my hand. But there are considerations of movement and volume that go into it beyond its texturally decorative purposes. I love being able to convey shape and motion with it. It’s less evident, I think, in my illustration work, but I think it’s much more obvious when I do sequential work. In the above image, you can see me working out a sequence of Angelica having a series of thoughts. Her head sort of moves, and her eyes follow. You can see I’d planned out the general shape of the hair and how I’d like it to move.

I wound up moving the drawings a little bit so that the readers eyes will actually follow the character’s eyes as it moves gently rightward on the page. The hair is there to accentuate the movement, like so:

It’s a consideration I employ in all my drawings, but especially when I’m drawing hair and fabric. I don’t use a lot of action lines, so this becomes an important way to give the reader the information that someone is moving through a space. Resistance, gravity, and motion are all things I have to keep in the back of my head when I’m doing these little drawings. I think the planning actually takes more time than the inking, which can happen pretty quickly once I map it all out.

In other news, I’m starting to take my extracurricular artistic development a little more seriously in the silliest way possible.

You wouldn’t know it, but I studied painting college—a medium I switched to after the printmaking professor and head of the Art Department at the time told me I probably shouldn’t be an artist (he gave me a hard candy for my trouble). I recently bought a bunch of little dolls, dressed them up, and am returning to my painting roots. It feels really nice to work in big blobs of color instead of lines. It’s an exercise I came up with in response to a common lament from art students.

One of the more aggravating generational tensions described to me by art school students is when professors describe a student’s portfolio as “too anime” without much explanation. I know what the professor means. They’re trying to get at how referencing your favorite anime or cartoons means that your style becomes a simulacrum, an imperfect copy of a copy, and you never learn to develop your own sense of judgment about where a line or a shape needs to go. And we can tell. It’s a way of working that is perfectly fine for cartooning because cartooning is closer to hand-writing than it is to drawing. I always turn to Charles Schulz’s work for an example. Those figures aren’t literally depicting children—with their little chessboard-pawn proportions and bread-loaf feet—but we read them as endearing children because we’ve come to a consensus between us, the readers, and Charles Schulz, the author, that those shapes mean those things. There are no whiskers or paws in the shape of the word “CAT” but you look at those three letters together, and you know the thing to which it refers. That’s an aspect of cartooning, too. Of course, what elevates it from mere writing is, in part, due to the fact that those little figures do not lose their meaning the more you depict them.

To really draw well, though, you have to do those fundamentals. You have to draw from life. There’s no way around it. It helps you develop a stronger sense of where you like to lay down your lines and shapes, no matter how stylized you like to work. It grows your judgment, and every artist’s best tool is their own well-honed sense of artistic discernment about their own work.

But that doesn’t mean you have to surrender the stuff you like or the things that inspire you to make art! I tell students that if they want to hold fast to their anime style AND hone their fundamentals to develop their eye as an artist, they should buy little figurines and toys of their favorite characters, prop those up against a light source, and draw them as still life objects. Like, yes, do the vases and the figure drawings and all those, I still think those are important. But if this is what you need to keep you interested in drawing from life, having some toys around is a great way to do it! Also, bless those sculptors and toy designers. They’re the best.

I think there’s something to be said about remembering to imagine the physicality of the things we draw, in all its dimensions and in the way it catches the light or casts a shadow. It helps sentimentalize things, too. Makes them feel more real, even emotionally.

Edwina died on Tuesday night, after a few final snuggles, surrounded by her favorite treats. She was about five years old, which is old for a chicken, and she had a very comfortable life. We buried her this morning. She was a good hen, J’s personal favorite.

It really feels like the end of an era. She was the last surviving member of our very first flock. After the other hens died, she really seemed to prefer the company of people over other hens. She is survived by Snooki and Nelly, our two other young birds who get along quite well together, actually.

A baby chick costs between three and five American dollars, typically. An egg-laying hen could be between twenty and fifty bucks, depending on the breed. There are roughly 26 billion chickens living in the world today, about 518 million of them here in the United States. They come pretty cheap. And a part of me was moved to cynicism, entertaining the thought that it might be strange to feel sadly over a little animal that, at most, might be roughly equivalent to the price of a fancy lunch and a coffee.

I watched the 1974 musical version of The Little Prince recently, and I remember it mostly because Bob Fosse was in it and scared the crap out of me as a kid—he played the snake that would take the Little Prince back into the sky when his body gets too heavy to take with him. Gene Wilder plays the Fox whom the Little Prince befriends and tames among a garden of roses. The Fox explains that he is like any other fox in the world, but he is changed—made special and particular to the Little Prince—with time, effort, and patience. So, too, is the Prince’s little flower special to him. Out of all the flowers in the universe, she was the one he watered and protected under a little glass jar. And that’s enough.

I knew my little hen would not live that long. It could be very easy to take a broad view of the life expectancy of a hen and distance myself from it by virtue of its mortality and its commonness. People who raise livestock do it all the time. But I also think it’s wonderful that we should all be capable of loving very small, very brief little things. Edwina is not, to my mind, the rough equivalent of a fancy lunch and a coffee. She was our little hen. For her whole life, she was ours. And I’m so happy she was here.

#cartooning #drawing #patreon #cw death #cw pet death #comics #trungles #artists on tumblr