Cow Encounter

This is a very bad cow. No, I don't mean it's an EVIL cow. I have met cows. Cows can probably be vicious, but they are simply not bright enough to be evil. As my father, who kept several cows in his day once pointed out, if you shoot a pig, all the other pigs know immediately what has happened, they know that You Are The Enemy, they gaze at you with hate-filled piggy eyes, and begin working, as a team, to insure your immediate and agonizing death. If you shoot a cow, on the other hand, the other cows in the same pen do not even look around to see what the noise was. His pigs had quite good lives as such things are measured among livestock, and he was always wracked with guilt (and possibly terror) when the Day of Bacon came 'round at last, but he never felt guilty about the cows.

Ahem. As I was saying, before I got sidetracked, this is a bad cow. The head is too large, the leg anatomy is...err...not even close to correct, and there are sundry other problems. This is because I have only a vague notion of what a cow really looks like, didn't bother to get out my How To Draw Cows The Marvel Way books, and this was an incredibly quick and very loose little 5 x 7ish doodle in a watercolor sketchbook, one of those odd little enounters between Cow and Small Mammal. I don't know what Small Mammal is saying, but I know what Cow is thinking, which is something like "....Mooo?" But I'm trying to doodle more, so what the heck.

Since people often want prints of very unlikely things, prints are available 'pon request, and I could even sell the original if somebody really wanted it, since there are these neat little micro-perf things in this particular sketchbook. Send a note or visit [link]