Turns out, socks on a rooster isn't all that cool.

So, as promised, I spent last night attempting to make a new design featuring a besocked rooster. It ends up that it was one of those ideas that seems like a winner but doesn't really pan out. Maybe I'll try again but I'm not sure the concept is worth the effort. At first I started with the simplest approach of a rooster standing calmly while wearing socks in a portrait style. I wasn't amused enough by it so I tried to invent a scenario where I thought a rooster would enjoy wearing socks. I thought the only way a proud rooster would wear a pair of silly socks was if it helped him impress a hen. So, somehow I developed the scene above where he is rubbing his socks on the rug to generate static and have a laugh with his hen friend. Yeah, it became a little too convoluted.

I wish I had made this a couple weeks ago when the theme for Illustration Friday was "Electricity".

Country-type things

I had a nice excursion with a friend today. We took a scenic drive to gather local veggies to eat and small herbs to plant from a couple farms. I got to visit Buffy (my favorite buffalo) a cantaloupe-eating cow and a llama. I'm a little pink from being out in the sun all day and look forward to spending the rest of the night at home.

My goal for the evening is to draw a rooster wearing socks. When I visited my family this weekend, I picked up the gem of a phrase "cooler than a rooster wearing socks". What imagery! After a Google search, I discovered that the rooster+socks pairing has many different (and equally peculiar) phrase variations. Obviously, I was bedazzled and knew that this saying deserved an illustration. We'll see how it goes!