Chicken Dance

Here's a pug showing you the complicated moves for the chicken dance.  I was running out of dances to draw and Boodapug suggested the chicken dance!  While there aren't really words to go with this I figured I could just do the "nanananananana" sounds for the song part.

Red Rover

All of the children's songs I've been doing recently made me think of other things from my childhood.  One of my favorite games when I was really little was Red Rover.  Do kids still play that nowadays?  I can still remember that feeling of anxiety and dread as soon I realized that the person who we called over was heading straight to one of the barriers with my arms.  So here are some pugs playing Red Rover, with a red Rover.

Pug Ring Around The Rosy

These pugs are having a blast doing ring around the rosy!  I had thought of this song earlier but was reluctant to draw it at first since there's not really that many movements to this - it's just dancing around in a circle and then sitting down.  But the more I thought about it the more I thought it would be fun to have frolicking pugs dancing around in a circle and then plopping down to sleep.  Also it's so perfect for pugs!  Sunny is capable of great energy and action but not for extended periods of time.  And any additional energy she exerts gets compensated with even more napping time later in the day.  So here are some happy pugs having a blast dancing around in a circle, followed by a good ol pug nap at the end.

Itsy Bitsy Spider Pug

Here's a lil pug doing The Itsy Bitsy Spider!  This is the last children's song I could think of with accompanying dance/movements.  I'll try to think of others, but sadly nothing comes to mind so far.

I tried my best to show the pug doing the spider climbing with her paws, but pugs lack the finger dexterity and thumbs (their declaws are nothing but another pair of nails I have to trim).

Lil Pug Teapot

I've had old songs from my childhood stuck in my head since I did the Pug Hokey Pokey yesterday and wanted to do another one.  I couldn't remember that many that have accompanying dances/movements, but of course I had to do I'm A Little Teapot.  Sunny is very short and stout!

The Pug Hokey Pokey

Here's a pug showing us how to do the hokey pokey.  I used to love the hokey pokey as a kid, especially when they did it at the roller rink (do they even have those anymore?!).  And isn't everything more fun with a pug?  Yes.  Always.

Gummi Pugs

Gummi Pugs!  Bouncing here and there and everywhere!

My recent Cabbage Patch Pugs drawing had me feeling nostalgic for things from my childhood, so here's Gummi Bears, pug-style.

Cabbage Patch Pugs

Growing up I was very anti-doll and very pro-stuffed animals. I never got the appeal of hard, uncomfortable dolls. And even though Cabbage Patch Kids tried to find a happy medium, I couldn't get past the round, big, and hard heads. My sister's especially freaked me out because it was supposed to have a pacifier in its mouth but after that got lost the doll would just stare at us with puckered lips.

Anyways, wouldn't you much rather find a warm, furry, fat pug in a head of cabbage instead of a doll?!

Pugger

I love it when my pug lays down on her belly and kicks back her legs like this:

She looks like a little frog!  This then had me thinking about frogs, which then had me thinking about Frogger, one of the best games from my childhood.  I used to love that game!  Gaming systems nowadays are pretty awesome but there's nothing like the classics.  I loved the tabletop version, where you and your opponent sit on opposite sides.  So here is my version of Frogger, pug-frog style.  I really enjoyed doing this one - it made me feel so nostalgic!

Animal Encounters Part 10

The last blast from the past at the zoo!  The OCD in me loves that this happened to end in a ten-part series.  So perfect!  Here we have some loose sketches of a gazelle.  These creatures are so delicate and dainty!  So that's the last of my old zoo sketches.  Makes me want to go to the zoo again!

Animal Encounters Part 9

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Here we have a gorilla and peacock mingling on my sketchbook page.  There's no rhyme or reason to why I have certain animals paired up together on any given sketchbook page.  Although I bet I could make an interesting story about a gorilla and peacock encounter.  Maybe next time.

Animal Encounters Part 8

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Up top we have a buffalo like creature.  I can't read my own writing so I don't know what I wrote up there.  The bottom part of the page are some hanging and swinging baboons.  These sketches are really loose because man those baboons move quickly.

Animal Encounters Part 7

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Here we've got a close-up of an alligator (or crocodile), and some roly poly seals.  They were not in the same enclosure, they just happen to be on the same page in my sketchbook.  I always have had a soft spot for seals ever since a zoo visit in the first or second grade when I met Corky, a blind seal who could swim around and retrieve balls by feeling around with his whiskers.  I even had a book about him.  Also, my pug often reminds me of a seal pup with her fat round body and her weird seal-like sounds.

Animal Encounters Part 6

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Here we have some black necked swans up top and some dainty flamingos at the bottom.

Animal Encounters Part 5

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Here's a sleeping baby tiger at the top and below are some alert meerkats.

Animal Encounters Part 4

Another blast from the past!  I think this is a mule or donkey - I can't remember.

Animal Encounters Part 3

Another blast from the past at the zoo!  Here we've got some magpies up top, some chubby lil prairie dogs in the middle, and a sad lil donkey at the end.

Animal Encounters Part 2

Another blast from the past at the zoo.  Here are some seals and owls.

Animal Encounters Part 1

Another blast from the past.  This is from a series of drawings I did during a zoo visit when I was younger.  I have a soft spot for animals and I always enjoy drawing them.  Here's a diagonal Indian rhino

Lion King

Another blast from the past.  I was obsessed with Disney as a kid, both from a viewer's point of view and also from an artist's point of view.  My dream when I was little was to be a Disney animator.  I draw pictures of various Disney characters all the time when I was younger.  When I went to animation summer school my love for Disney was looked down upon by the other students who preferred the edgier or artsier stuff.  I was so sheltered and while I now love all sorts of different art and animation, I still think there's nothing wrong with holding onto a bit of that Disney love.