Aardvark - Animal of the Month - June 2014

Introducing a new series of drawings: The Explorer's Notebook

The awesome Group for Wildlife-Awareness wildlife-awareness.deviantart.… is organizing an "Animal of the Month" event and, for June, it's the Aardvark, animal which was unknown to me a few weeks ago...

I really think the idea of the "Animal of the Month" is great, so I've decided to get aboard ... and many entries are expected!!! so if you feel like drawing something, jump on in!!!!! the more, the merrier!!

As for the concept of the Explorer's Notebook: ever since I read Conan Doyle's "Lost World" and the books by Jules Verne as a child, I've been fascinated by explorers, unknown and untamed nature, the idea of going beyond what has already been discovered... and when I broke my leg during the summer of my 14th birthday and had to stay put, I even created, following Maple White's example (The Lost World), a sketchbook with many animals that I used to draw with black pencils. So, when I read about the "Animal of the Month" event, the idea came back of pretending I am an explorer actually drawing what I see, with the animal, its name, its size and its location... I'll be using a sketchbook with good paper I bought on vacation in Amsterdam last year, a few pencils and my beloved Faber Castell Indian Ink markers ... and voilà!!!!

so, I'm already looking forward to seeing what the animal of July will be   hope you like it!!!!!!!!!