Fun Fact: Many large opossums, such as the Virginia opossum, are immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and pit vipers. This may be part of an arms race between the two groups of animals.
Either I'm good at guessing species or you're fantastic at drawing them. When I saw this drawing after clicking on the thumbnail, I said, this is an opossum. I was right! (sound of cheering in the background) I must admit, though, that this opossum is much cuter than a real one and no, I'm not referring to the ones most people see lying alongside the road. LOL.
Either I'm good at guessing species or you're fantastic at drawing them. When I saw this drawing af
I can go with both. :p Although I must say that just about everything is cuter than roadkill. :o The added cuteness is likely due to the neoteny (retention of childhood traits into adulthood) inherent in my brand of anthropomorphosization. I tend to deliberately make the eyes larger, the heads rounder, and the muzzle shorter than their real life counterparts partly because it just looks better that way than just sticking the real animal's head on a human body and because it's similar to how human heads tend to retain a lot of neotenous traits compared to ancient apes.
I can go with both. :p Although I must say that just about everything is cuter than roadkill. :o T
I can guarantee the eyes on her(?) are bigger than the eyes on a real opossum. On a regular basis, I have to chase one away from the food I feed feral cats. So, I've seen their eyes and they are small and beady compared to this one's eyes.
I can guarantee the eyes on her(?) are bigger than the eyes on a real opossum. On a regular basis,
While drawing this, I was doing my best to make sure I wasn't making them too big, something I have to watch out for in all my drawings. I've seen them from closeup too (they might not be native to this part of the U.S., but they sure love it over here), and the thing that strikes me about their eyes is how dead-looking they are. It just seems so anomalous in contrast to the animated liveliness and sense of personality in the rest of their face
While drawing this, I was doing my best to make sure I wasn't making them too big, something I have
