I Will Work Harder

Whew! Sorry I was out of town last week. Boxer's maxim was "I will work harder," I guess I need to adopt that myself!

"Four legs good, two legs better!"

Napoleon excercising the pronouncement in Chapter 10 "Four legs good, two legs better.". On reflection I should have made him fatter.
By now he's taken up residence in the house and is eating all the best food in the house (including his fellow creatures-- that's my interpretation). His clothes and powdered wig are more 1800's than what's described in the book-- I thought it was befitting his character.

Boxer

Boxer always seemed like the saddest part of the story. He works so hard just to be sold to the glue factory. I spent some time trying to get him to look strong, could have spent a little more on the gulible part.

Ther WUS A FoRMR NAMT BeN he hADA LOT FO ChORS TO DOO.

"There was a farmer named Ben. He had a lot of chores to do."

We have a guest illustrator back by popular demand (see her debut at my blog). Makenzie, my little Kindergartner, was excited about drawing an "Animal Farm". This is her entry. I may have to start Makenzie her very own blog.

The Most Equal

Well I don't remember much about the story, but I bet one of the pigs could've looked like this...

Old Major's Plan

I love the part of the book when Old Major basically invents "animalism". It's a great setting, and quite clever. This is a detail for a larger picture I'm trying to do with all the animals in the barn listening, but I decided this was all I had time to do for Toon Club this week. If I get the rest of the image done, I'll update the post. I wanted to give it a Golden Book sort of feel, even though Animal farm as a Golden Book would be horrible.

Leaving the Farm

The reign of the Pigs comes to an end.

Step Aside Christopher Robin!

I know I already posted but I kept having this vision of another well-known pig character as dictator. Finally I just had to try it even if it was a quickie. So here they are catching the vision.

Well, you at least get what I was going for.

O Brother, What Art Thou?

Eventually the animals couldn't tell the difference between the humans and the pigs. Can you? Clearly I can't.

All der Hanimals ist Hequal, but der Shvine ist der most HEQUAL!

All I recall about Animal Farm is that the pigs established a dictatorship over the other farm animals. I believe Orwell was mostly warning about communist dictators but I couldn't resist doing a take-off on good ol' Adolf.