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How to Draw a Cartoon Badger – Animal ABC

This is B for badger in a series of videos for an animal ABC.
I went on Vacation to Rome recently and saw a Juventus Shirt in a sport shop window and thought, that is just what a badger should wear! I assumed that a million artists would have had the same idea, but no!
So that’s what I decided to do for this week’s Animal ABC.
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See Inside my TV Sketchbook Full of Faces

I keep a sketchbook by me when I watch TV in the evenings in case there is nothing very interesting on, in which case I start drawing faces that come up on screen.
Sometimes I draw them from really interesting shows as well!
The trouble with drawing from the tv is that the average edit is less than 3 seconds long, so I just have time to register some of the details of the face and draw it as best as I can remember it. Very often the face never comes back, so these are impressions – snapshots.
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how to draw an armadillo

This is the first in a series of illustrations of an ABC of animals that I will be making.
I will then be creating mugs and t-shirts from the designs and maybe a book at the end of it all. You can order your mug here:
Drawn in Rotring Tikky Graphic pens sizes 0.3 and 0.2 and Winsor and Newton watercolours using a Pentel Aquash brush.
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The Pentel Aquash Brush http://amzn.to/2hL5MZe in the UK http://amzn.to/2zQFD1H in the USA http://amzn.to/2BpMRHg In Canada
The Cotman sketching watercolour set http://amzn.to/2hPgKgl in the UK http://amzn.to/2yWquIV in the USA http://amzn.to/2BpN0KO in Canada

How to Draw a Cartoon Badger – Animal ABC

See Inside my TV Sketchbook Full of Faces

how to draw an armadillo