Le Pautre, pt.1

I was looking online at some of the images of Jean Le Pautre, a 17th century French designer and engraver. I had to try drawing some things found in his ornaments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Le_Pautre
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lepautre1751bd1/0001?sid=12b680fc5c2dc016f9ded3ef4a943723

Kestrel in progress 1

Derwent and Caran d'Ache water-soluble colored pencils on Canson paper

earlier stages:

Another Michelangelo head

Another go at copying from the Master

January 12, 2011

Derwent Inktense pencil & wash on Canson watercolor paper

Joy, the Christmas Donkey

I follow Dinotopia creator James Gurney's blog pretty religiously. I liked a photo of him drawing Joy, a donkey born on Christmas Day 2009, so I had to draw her with some pencils I had just received from my family for Christmas.

James Gurney's original post with photo:
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-donkeys.html
(He's drawing her with a cat on his lap and Joy about to chomp on his sketchbook)