While doodling around one day I started a sea horse drawing. With these caricatures I’m always anthropomorphizing. It seems to me that seahorses are always portrayed as beautiful and classy creatures. Why should they get all the glory? Come on… I’m sure there are at least a few sociopaths, jerks or unhinged individuals among their populations! I wanted to draw one of the “lesser represented” personalities. So out of the pencil came this critter. After that I just needed to add a few terrified victims furiously swimming away, trying to avoid the deranged sea horse.
Even from across the room, our kids can always tell when I’m drawing cartoons. I couldn’t figure out how they knew until then they let the cat out of the bag: “You always make crazy faces while you draw them.” Aha! Now even I notice myself doing it.
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