So I have stopped drawing Orcs. I have had a week off. But I have to keep drawing.
Gnome-vember is not happening this year. But recently I was listening to
In Our Time (great background noise for Orc drawing) and they were going on about fantasy animals, or more precisely Unicorns. People believed in Unicorns and their horns became commodities.
Jackalopes are more of an American obsession, and they passed into American folklore to the extent you could buy stuffed Jacklopes, or at least their heads. A rabbit with antlers, these beast are built on conflicting ideas. I wonder how Watership down would have ended up with a few of these in the mix?
Now the closest I have ever got to drawing one a unicorn was
my rendering of the Patrick Swayze Tattoo. But Jackalopes have caught my imagination, so here is a first go. The Wikipedia article is pretty shabby and while there are sites out there they are from the dawn of the internet. But here are some handy bullets on Jackalopes:
- Jackalopes make their home in the American West
- They are agressive and fight with their antlers
- Jackalopes can mimic human sounds
- They use this to elude capture
- A Jackalope loves whiskey
Here are a two Jackalope links:
The Museum of Hoaxes
Wikipedia on Jackalopes
I’m just begining my hunt for Jackalope related material. So now I have this amazing Disqus comment system I’d really welcome any nice Jackalope titbits readers of Chrisshipton.com might find out there on the internetz..
