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Inktober is coming up! What should Josh draw?
🕑 Added 2020-09-16 18:06:32 +0000 UTCHi everyone! Melodie here. October is on the horizon, which means Inktober is too!
For those who don’t know, Inktober is a yearly event in which artists challenge themselves to draw something every single day for a month. It doesn’t matter what - there are lists of prompts you can follow, but you can also draw whatever you like - the intent is really to push yourself as an artist. It’s great for improving your skill, because it forces you to practice it everyday, which is what you need to do get better! And it’s so beneficial and rewarding to do it along thousands of other people that it’s really become something that spans across artistic communities. If you’re remotely artistically inclined, we encourage you to try it and follow along!
Last year we asked you to suggest animals for Josh to draw, and it was so much fun. So Josh is planning on participating, and would like your suggestions again. From now until September 30, comment on this post to decide what he should draw! You can give as many ideas as you want :) But there’s a theme: suggestions should be of “modern dinosaurs”, that is: a bird or a reptile.
He’ll post the list of prompts before October 1st so people can follow along. We can’t wait to see all your ideas!!
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False Knees
Hahaha, very convincing argument Renée! I may need to make some adjustments to my list... also, I had no idea frogs were around back then, that's super enlightening thank you!
Renée Krulich
Slight amendment, 9 out of 10 frogs come from three lineages during this time. The last ten percent from from other lineages. So, most known frogs, not all known frogs. I'm very into frogs right now. I'm going to be the "frog person" whenever quarantine is over.
Renée Krulich
Things I have learned about dinosaurs and frogs! THEY LIVED AT THE SAME TIME. WHOOPS! I didn't know that? I don't know, maybe I didn't not know it, but that's kind of amazing. Frogs purportedly date back 200 million years. There were three major lines of frogs at the time of dinosaurs and all known frog lineages come from those. They actually thrived because of the dinosaurs going extinct. In fact, some frogs were said to eat baby dinosaurs. There is no definitive proof of this to date, but it's a possibility. So, official twelve word essay is as follows: "You are what you eat and one frog reportedly ate baby dinosaurs."
Renée Krulich
Alright I didn't mean to procrastinate down to the last half of an hour of September, but here we are. In my defense I've been sick, but also as all professors told me in the past, if I had prepared properly it wouldn't be left to the last minute.
Carly Fankhauser
Finally, even though they aren’t descended from dinosaurs like birds are, my study species for my research is the yellow-chinned anole (Anolis gundlachi) in Puerto Rico. They are super feisty and have gorgeous blue eyes. They’re found on trunks and to a lesser extent on the ground. Males are territorial. They think about eating bugs a lot and the males do push-ups to attract females. They are not the smartest lol. Other Anolis species in the same habitat are A. stratilus, A. occultis (twig anole!), and A. cuvieri (lives in the tops of the trees). But any anole comic would likely be printed out and taped to my adviser’s door (‘:
Carly Fankhauser
An homage to Jurassic Park would be fun to see. Water in a puddle rippling as a bird stalks an insect, like a grasshopper or something.
Carly Fankhauser
Yesssss!!!
Carly Fankhauser
Seconding this!! Woodcocks have a special place in the hearts of most wildlife biologists due to the writing of Aldo Leopold (:
Carly Fankhauser
Shoe-billed storks are so expressive, I bet they’d be fun to draw!! I love all the comics with crows, too. Maybe something with common ravens since they’re so antisocial relative to crows?
Moshe Laramee-Gonzalez
A finch! or a Japanese long-tailed tit!
False Knees
Really good one
False Knees
Oh puffins are the best, thank you!
OneFoot_Out
Idk if it's already been suggested, but I'd like to see a puffin or a lemming!
Jessica
Great gray owl! My vote has been cast :)
V L
I JUST read a Nat Geo article about the Mary River Turtle. Small world?
Sarah
a Mary River Turtle!! They grow Mohawks of algae and can breathe through their butts.
Natasha
A Shoebill!
kolt
Quail! So little and so plump! There are a few different subspecies but the Californian quail has a cute little head feather that looks a bit like a question mark 😄
Sean Gallagher
I would like to suggest something I recently saw: a great blue heron attempting to eat a puffer fish.
Annika
You've probably drawn some already but magpies! So entertaining and inventive yet mean
Christine Slaughter
American woodcock! Delightful neckless strutters. And cedar waxwing! Also seconding the shoebill, those horrible evil-muppet-looking things.
False Knees
I'm going to need a 12-word essay on why the Black Rain Frog qualifies as a modern dinosaur
False Knees
Renée...
False Knees
Shot for shot remake of Jurassic Park but with shoebill storks–probably end up scarring more children for life. Thank you! That's a fun one.
False Knees
Great ones! Haha, are there any snakes in particular that are prone to wearing hats?
False Knees
Wonderful suggestion!
False Knees
I had never heard of a grey heron before! Quite similar to Great Blue Herons by the looks of it! Thanks for the suggestions!
Renée Krulich
This is a really good one!!
Renée Krulich
Can I slide through an amphibian suggestion? It's super close to reptile! I'm gonna do it anyway and you can totally disregard it if it doesn't qualify. I'm bringing back 2019's suggestion of a Black Rain Frog aka Breviceps fuscus.
Cedar
What about a shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex)? I mean it's even got 'Rex' in its scientific name! And also if someone replaced every raptor in jurassic park with them it'd be equally terrifying.
Survival Guide
I love the fat little birds -- especially bearded reedling, but maybe black-capped chickadee or tufted titmouse (which you've probably already done)? Oh, and any snake with a hat. :)
Olivia MacRae
I would love a California condor more than anything! The sanctuary just burned in the Dolan fire at Big Sur and the breeding program needs all the help it can get, plus they’re just huge and amazing and odd and beautiful and have the cutest flappiest babies.
Emma Jones
I would love a barn owl (because it's my daughter's favourite). Other suggestions are grey heron and cormorant because I like them and I see them by the river a lot.
False Knees
Sorry Lin! Anything with fur is out this year! No fur, no fur! Down with fur!
Paul Lemaitre
Leatherback sea turtle :)
Lin Eap
Quokka please draw a quokka 🥺
Doug
Bearded dragon! I had one growing up so they have a special place in my heart
Julia Clark
Polish chicken!
Krista Raveala
Kea parrot and Komodo dragon.
alex grant
American dipper?
Diane Shaw
Cassowaries!
Melody Lu
Everything about Hoatzins is hilarious and horrid at the same time! And on the cul-de-sac-of-evolution theme, I also recommend Tuataras. (I would consider both of these species “sort of modern” dinosaurs, like how coelacanths can generously be called modern fishes.)
gstar
Good friends have one... she is 6 ounces of kick-ass, i wouldn’t want to hold six of her! lol
Fletchabirb
My suggestions are for a Secretarybird and a Marine Iguana!
False Knees
All great suggestions, thank you Patrick!
False Knees
overcompensating for something I think!
False Knees
I want to hold six all at once!
False Knees
Crows have officially entered the mix, everyone
False Knees
It is now required homework for everyone to google this bird
False Knees
Hooray!
False Knees
UH yes?!
False Knees
Holy!
Patrick Kennedy
I'd love to see a California Scrub Jay! Their long eyebrows are just so cute A gecko would be fun too, the crested gecko is very smol fierce There's many kinds of rattlesnakes, and they're largely very bland, to blend in, but some sort of study could be fun, to get the rattler and their posture, etc. Not sure how many seabirds you've drawn, but boobies and/or gannets are fun!
Mary DeMona
greater sage grouse!
gstar
A parrotlet!
Madeleine E Guekguezian
The humble-yet-precious Oak Titmouse (or any sort of crow, they're such good dudes!)
reubensandrye
oh an inca tern! they have delightful little moustaches
Andrew Funk
Steller's Jay!
Zach Mitro
UH definitely an emu!?
Stasis Nelaimischkies
Double crested basilisk- the little lizards that run on water!
False Knees
ooooo pretty dino!!
Luke Thies
Hoatzin look very prehistoric and interesting to me!
False Knees
I love drawing meadowlarks
False Knees
Cute E. Pie
False Knees
I'll add both individually, haha
Richard Frangiamore
That's the one!
False Knees
Another favourite!
False Knees
One of my favourites!
False Knees
Anole?
Richard Frangiamore
One of those tiny lizards with the poofy sack on its chin. What are those again...?
Jasper Bogaert
A barn swallow, it's so nice to see them sheering over the fields
Wesley
Scrub jay vs. mourning dove fight
Jamey
Turkey vultures! The majestic hug machines/entrail snackers of the northeast US!
Lori Stokes
western meadowlark!
False Knees
hahaha
False Knees
Amazing
Dani
I had a tegu for a ringbearer at my wedding last month and he was VERY popular with the people who tuned in to watch the stream of the ceremony!
False Knees
Wow they are gorgeous!!
Crash of '06
frogmouth owls!!!
Natalie Burton
A ruby crowned kinglet.
Dani
Draw a tegu! They got fat cheeks and an interesting scale pattern.
