This week I've been continuing to illustrate some of the animals from my earlier sketches, focusing on the ones that I'll be using as the characters. I'm really enjoying using a brush and ink (I'm using Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay inks and mixing in a bit of the opaque white to make the colour more solid) and the different marks I am getting from this technique. Some of these drawings have been done with fine-liners and marker pens, but I think the more successful ones are those done with ink (generally the larger images are the ones done in ink).
I still have quite a lot of animals to draw before I move on to designing the costumes, so I'll be continuing with this today and tomorrow.