MY Carrot! (Sketch)

My 12-year-old daughter wanted help drawing something.

“What do you want to draw?”

“A cute rabbit with big eyes.”

She wanted to look online for ideas. “First let’s try using or imaginations,” I said. “Then we can look online if we aren’t satisfied.” The idea was that we would both draw a variation of the same thing, and she would follow along. I started lightly outlining the shape of the head, and the big eyes. She watched and advised.

“Make the eyes bigger!” she insisted. “One ear up, one ear floppy.” I sketched as she watched. “Hugging the carrot in her arms.” I sketched some more.

And then she said, “I changed my mind. I think I want to draw a bear.”

Leaving me with a half-finished cute, big-eyed, carrot-hugging bunny. So I finished it, and added a special touch in the background.

And I helped her find a cute cartoon bear online, which she drew, adding big eyes.

Killer Rabbit

This is certainly not my first time drawing a rabbit. Rabbits and I go way back. See “Do-Over: Bunnies on the Wall.” And this sketch owes a small debt to “the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on,” the killer rabbit scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.