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Submitted: June 15, 2010
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Obscure Animal Alphabet - Aby =Ulario

Anthro / Digital Media / Painting & Airbrushing

I've got a fever and the only perscription is more cowbell!" - Christopher Walken

About the Project

This is the first picture in my "Obscure Animal Alphabet" project. The idea behind the project was making an animal alphabet book like those that you give to children, but instead of using common animals like "B is for bear", "W is for wolf" and "Z is for Zebra" I'm using animals that most people don't know much about.

The animal kingdom does not stop at the barnyard. I'm hoping that I can get someone to learn someone with this.

I am challenging myself to not only draw animals that aren't very common... even in the furry world but also to incorperate different parts of the people and places that each animal lives into each picture.

This will be a side project, so it may take me a while to finish... but I hope to have the book available by next year's convention circuit. I will only be publicly releasing 2-3 more pages of this book as I work on it. The rest will be available from the book alone.

About the Aurochs
The aurochs was an ancestor of the modern day cow, but they put today's cows to shame. They were 6 feet tall and had massive curving howns. Sadly, they went extinct in the 1600s because of over hunting, diseases, and the fact that they had to compete with domestic cattle over grazing lands.

My husband said that I should have wrote "A WAS for Aurochs", since they're not around anymore... but I thought it would have been a little silly.

Character & Image © 2010 Traci Vermeesch-Vezina
Please DO NOT copy, alter, repost, etc without the consent of the artist! Character/Image are NOT public domain!

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~HOPALONG247 Sep 29, 2010

Nice work! Beautiful shading.

~phan-tom Sep 27, 2010

Basically "A" is for aurochs,
which you can see in this Wikipedia article about the origins of the letter "A"
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~MahadoMagician7 Jul 1, 2010

Cool!!!!!!! That's awesome!!!!! How did you color it?

`triptychr Jun 21, 2010 Hobbyist Writer

I'm looking forward to this. Great (and educational) start!

~Lord-Sithis Jun 20, 2010

Beautiful. Hopefully there will be more

~Cydra630 Jun 18, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Hmm, interesting idea. However, I think the extinction category is slightly off. If you haven't heard, scientists have been trying to recreate the aurochs through back breeding. I think they're succeeding to the point that they can use actual aurochs DNA in the program now.

~odduckoasis Jun 17, 2010

That's an awesome concept and idea! Always good to stretch yourself and help others learn in the process.

I learned something!

Very cool, looking forward to more!

~AWOL-Elendil Jun 17, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I've actually heard of them before. Don't know much about them, though...

*bendzz Jun 17, 2010

That's a really good idea, reminds me of Lisa putting Marge to shame on the Simpsons with the obscure animal cue-cards. I wish you luck; you will be telling the kids these animals aren't, you know, anthro right?

=Ulario Jun 17, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

LOL... "Zebu. Zeeeebu."

Andthe book really isn't meant for children. More geared towards the anthro community.

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