Last night me and Goose ended up having a little painting party. I was working on a watercolor, so she joined in on her own. Mine is going pretty good, but you don't get a WIP, sorry! This is all about Gooseberry's delightful work. There are two significant strides in this: new imaginitive features and a break away from tadpole people. Animals, it seems, get bodies!
I love these 'cuz a) they are all paintings of Goose and Snap together (except the yellow one at the top--that's Em) and 2) she gave everyone bunny ears. Em asked how she learned to do bunny ears and she said "at school! They're like an 'm'". I'm intuiting she means she learned 'm' at school, and connected that to bunny ears, but also there could be a fad at preschool around bunny ears altho her delivery seemed to indicate that was not the case. Regardless: I love each and every ear. The grey one at the top is a further experiment, linking more 'm' ears together to make a crown. Nice! I'm fairly certain the looong arms curving over Snap's head on several drawings are to make the sisters hold hands.
This is a landmark. She has drawn some hercules beetles with two segments, but those are different somehow[1]; this to me is the first time she's given a guy a body. I said, "oh!! look it has two arms and two legs and everything": she forcefully corrected me that those are all legs cuz cats don't have arms. My mistake. Once complete she looked at this and went, "oh! I could make it a cat bus??" but then decided to save that for another drawing, which makes me wonder what she had in mind to modify this one--more legs? A door on the tummy?
I'm extremely tickled
for one, they're bugs. For another, she doesn't seem to treat them as "head and body" but just "this is how you draw a hercules beetle"--based off of a wildkratz episode? ↩︎