Yet Another Totoro
Totoro (character design by Hayao Miyazaki) - graphite
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One of my favorite characters to draw, because the shapes are so simple that proportion is the key. He's basically a big oval with arrows on his head. Been wanting to show texture with his fur. In earlier posts I had used a looping pattern for shading fur. This time I was referencing a Tim Flach photograph of a panda bear from his book "More Than Human", and decided to shade with contour hatching. Great book by the way if you want beautiful references of animal skin/fur/scales textures.
