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A special gift for all my wonderful friends who are south of the Canadian border - Happy July 4th guys! (And er, kind of northwestish if you live in Alaska haha.)

Thanks are due to my mom, who helped immensely by critiquing my bovine anatomy - cows are so weird! I'm used to drawing animals whose ears are positioned on the tops of their heads so it was a bit of a trick to position this moo's ears right, even while using a reference. I didn't give this guy (a steer, by the way) an enormous rack because this was intimidating enough! I hardly ever draw (real) animals with horns, so yeah... this guy was a fun challenge.

Also thanks are in order to who helped me figure out what on Earth I should draw for this because I had no idea. Our discussion also led to the creation of this piece's companion piece, True Patriot Love, my Canada Day (July 1st) illustration which I completed earlier in the week back on Tuesday.

True Patriot Love

It was really nice doing something that was not cliche for these national holidays, though my original idea was to do something goofy. I think these ideas were much better and much more tasteful; if I could, I'd do more national flag patterned animals for holidays, but I really don't know of any besides these two. Next year I might do something involving characters from my series sort of breaking the 4th wall in a funny way... or maybe a thing showing ancestral nationalities of some of the Rimer characters...

Fun fact about longhorns: they're one of the most ancient breeds in the world! As a result, they're also super healthy and hardy, more so than your average modern cow. (That is, their personal breed health is awesome. Yeah.) They're also pretty good natured despite the gnarly looking horns and they come in a miriad of colours.

I hope you guys like it! If you like this, please also check out True Patriot Love and leave a comment.

This is also today's (July 4th 2014) Sketch of the Day.

(c)Rosanna P. Brost. All Rights Reserved.
Please do not copy, print without permission or share without due credit.

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A special gift for all my wonderful friends who are south of the Canadian border - Happy July 4th guys! (And er, kind of northwestish if you live in Alaska haha.)

Thanks are due to my mom, who helped immensely by critiquing my bovine anatomy - cows are so weird! I'm used to drawing animals whose ears are positioned on the tops of their heads so it was a bit of a trick to position this moo's ears right, even while using a reference. I didn't give this guy (a steer, by the way) an enormous rack because this was intimidating enough! I hardly ever draw (real) animals with horns, so yeah... this guy was a fun challenge.

Also thanks are in order to who helped me figure out what on Earth I should draw for this because I had no idea. Our discussion also led to the creation of this piece's companion piece, True Patriot Love, my Canada Day (July 1st) illustration which I completed earlier in the week back on Tuesday.

True Patriot Love

It was really nice doing something that was not cliche for these national holidays, though my original idea was to do something goofy. I think these ideas were much better and much more tasteful; if I could, I'd do more national flag patterned animals for holidays, but I really don't know of any besides these two. Next year I might do something involving characters from my series sort of breaking the 4th wall in a funny way... or maybe a thing showing ancestral nationalities of some of the Rimer characters...

Fun fact about longhorns: they're one of the most ancient breeds in the world! As a result, they're also super healthy and hardy, more so than your average modern cow. (That is, their personal breed health is awesome. Yeah.) They're also pretty good natured despite the gnarly looking horns and they come in a miriad of colours.

I hope you guys like it! If you like this, please also check out True Patriot Love and leave a comment.

This is also today's (July 4th 2014) Sketch of the Day.

(c)Rosanna P. Brost. All Rights Reserved.
Please do not copy, print without permission or share without due credit.