Drawing the Donkeys :)

So I am always with patterns in the back of my mind and there are not many donkeys around. I started drawing donkeys after studying them and suddenly I wanted a mother and kid. So I setup my first skets (look at those legs, they are horrid, somehow I always forget a leg when I have to draw more then 2)

This is just a composition sketch, but I thought the mom with her head over the little one was cute enough to keep.

The donkeys however looked more like mules so I started to put in more lines

My blurry lines became animals. But there was something wrong with moms shale. It was turned unnatural and I could not see (especially the legs) which one was which. I needed to clean this up as the pattern would be messy, so I turned mom :)

This looks better. As you see this drawing has so many unnecessary lines, I started to clean up. I put my raster for mosaic and interlocking over the drawing and started drawing like a pattern (first setups as you know now are always rough drawings).

The mom looks pretty cure already so I continued

Still those legs look like trees... but well, I hope I would manage... and I got a little annoyed that I cannot draw legs! So I drew a few sets of legs hoping that they would fit better then the trees I had now (read no dynamics)

I moved them around and kept working and adjusting them. At least mom looks reasonable now

Mom is done, some shading adjustments will always come but for now I was reasonable happy with her, I started to work on with the foal.

The bum was too high, so I went back sketching.

This looks better but still those legs worried me

I will go back to the drawing board, tweaking them and give it a back and foreground :) maybe hiding the hoofs as I need more pixels to make them look real (sometimes pattern drawing make you creative as you do not have an unlimited amount of pixels, read stitches).