Denizens of Antarctica

Here are some more penguins that are based on proprietary characters. I ain's no lawyer er nothin', but I think they are probably close enough to the original to require permission to have these on some for profit book. Enjoy. . .  More from the Bird, James Bird series. This is the first one I started as a hand drawing and then converted to the computer. The floor and walls are colored with an illustration program and the words were added with it, too. I still have some work to go before I call this "done" but it's not bad as is.  This penguin is going to make you an offer that's not so bad. You probably could refuse it, but it might save you a couple of bucks. By the way, drawing a moustache on a penguin is rather difficult.  Let's go!! Now, one thing you don't know is that the arctic, being the - well. . . polar opposite - of the Antarctic is the enemy nation of the penguins. As the most visible occupant of the artic, polar bears are the

Here is an several drawings I did for the boy one night. The WWII Staff Sergeant Penguin is one a few that I redid with pen and ink later on. Check out the anatomically correct M1A1 Thompson sub-gun! And here we start with naming everything with "penguin" or "guin" in the title. Why? 'Cause it's funny, of course. Duh. Submitted for your approval. . . the Penglasa Raptor. And here is where we start running afoul of copywrite laws. There are many Star Wars, Star Trek and other things to come. Maybe someday I will contact Disney to get the ok to produce a Penguin Star Wars book. Heck, Disney gives people the ok to make Star Wars flavored anything about now. Until then, I guess I'll have to keep all these proprietary characters on the free side. In any case, the question on everyone's mind is what a penguin assassin looks like. Well, they are pretty awesome to behold.  Same thing here. You want to know what a penguin zombie looks

Back to the original drawings. All done in pencil, in 5 minutes or less (typically), and on a 3x5 pad. How would penguins build an airplane. Badly, I would assume. This was another drawing that resulted from a question. What would it look like when a penguin brushes his teeth? Well, it would look like this, of course. This drawing might lead to follow up questions, but I'm not here to answer those.  Apparently, I was in a hurry when I drew this one. It's also pretty funny. Of course he's always well dressed.

Since I've done a couple of the very oldest penguin drawings, I thought I would post some of the more elaborate ones. This was the first large size penguin drawing done. Puns, you see are one of the basic elements of penguin humor. Talking about penguins with the boys one day, we decided that the penguin military forces must contain the penguinfantry. Thinking about what they might look like I came up with the drawing above.  Yes. Penguin Nixon and the King. (King penguin? I didn't think about that at the time.) Why, you say? Why not?! Once I thought about what a penguin would dream of insofar as what a nose job would look like. Could it possibly look like the offering below? Yes. Yes I think so.

Welcome to Denizens of Antarctica! I started drawing penguins in 2014 when my family visited Tokyo and we saw the penguin exhibit in the Tokyo Skytree. My youngest got obsessed with penguins and I started drawing them every day (in five minutes or less) before he went to bed. The drawings sort of got more and more involved from that point. I will start with of few of the five minute originals and go from there. I will be adding new drawings twice a week. Enjoy!  This was the first. My son and I were discussing The "Big Eared Protopenguinis" before bed one night. It was an early pre-historic penguin, you see and the ears eventually grew so big that they flopped down and became modern-day penguin wings. I said I would draw it, and the rest is history. This was the second. Another early penguin.   This one speaks for itself, I guess.  Another scientific classification of penguin types The thought I had here was, "What would happen if a pengu