Once Upon A Pug Dream

I have been impatiently awaiting hopefully good news and kept thinking of that Disney song One Day My Prince Will Come and that scene in Sleeping Beauty when Princess Aurora dances with the forest creatures dressed up to resemble a man. So here's my pug and Funaek version. Of course I later realized that the song is from Snow White and not Sleeping Beauty. D'oh! Oh well. I always had a soft spot for Sleeping Beauty because I thought that Princess Aurora had the best hair out of all the Disney princesses!

Rapugzel

Rapugzel, Rapugzel, let down your tail!

Hmmm, this might not work out. Maybe it would be better if Rapugzel saved up all the fur she sheds and weaves that into a rope. I'm sure she'd have enough for the rope after one good furminator session.

The Emperor's New Clothes

This is The Emperor's New Clothes, pug style. At first I was going to do a more literal drawing with a naked pug surrounded by clothed pugs, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to keep all the pugs nekkid. My sister and I always joke about how we like to let our dogs run naked in the house (meaning no collars). So this is what I ended up drawing instead. I was also going to draw more of a village in the background but thought it would look too busy with the the pug crowd up front. Plus I'm working in a pocket sized notebook so it would get a bit tricky for me and I didn't want to spend too much time on this.

Hope you enjoy the nude pugs! You pervs.

Hansel & Gretel (Pug Version)

If Hansel and Gretel had been pugs, then the story would've been pretty short.  They would come across the witch's candy house and they would have eaten the entire house down to the ground.  No oven for the witch to try to cook them in.  Then, food coma.  The end.  

Goldipug and The Three Bears

If Goldilocks had been a pug, she wouldn't have made it past the bowls of food.  And nothing would be too hot or too cold for a pug to eat.  I bet the bears would've arrived mid-licking the bowls, before the pug even gets a chance to sleep in all the beds.

This is also for this week's Illustration Friday theme, "suspense." When will the pug turn around and see the bears?? And what will happen then?

I started doing this with brown bears but I found them too ordinary looking and so I decided to try this with black bears and loved their super long muzzles and weirdly large ears.  So in this version of the story, Goldilocks is a pug (with her bunny friend), and the three bears are black bears.

Pug and Bunny in Wonderland

Alice pug just won't stop eating the "eat me" cakes and keeps growing bigger.  Poor orange bunny.  He's already late for a very important date.

Argh, I did this in my moleskine drawing notebook and so I thought it would be better to avoid any water since that paper doesn't take to it too well.  I used my watercolor pencils which I like for smaller colorings, but realized too late that it wouldn't work for ginormous pug.  I didn't like the look of the pencil shading there and so I thought I'd use a teeny bit of water to smooth it out.  Unfortunately it took a bit more water than the paper liked to get the pencil marks smoothed out.  Result is uneven coloring on the pug and some paper buckling from the water.  I think I would've done better if I'd just used straight up watercolors or gouache.  Lesson learned.  I might redo this one at some point in the future.

Snow White And The Seven Pugs

Here we have Snow White and the seven pugs.  Poor Snow White, look at all that pug hair that she's trying to clean up with a weak lil broom.  With seven pugs, there's no way she would be able to clean up all that hair!  I can't keep up with my one pug's shedding even using all my lint rollers and vacuum cleaners.

I found most of the seven dwarfs' names perfectly suited for pugs (e.g., Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey).  See if you can identify each of them!  There's Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy.

I did this first as a pen sketch with some color highlights, but I wanted to add more color to this one.  In the end, I'm not sure which one I like better.  Although the one below doesn't have the pug fur that I added at the end.

Little Red Riding Pug

If a pug were Little Red Riding Hood, the story would have stopped moving forward at this point since that basket would've never made it to grandma's house anyways.

Sleeping Beauty Pug

This is how I imagine Sleeping Beauty would be in the pug and bunny world.  Sleeping Pug passed out, with bunny arms, and Prince Pug coming to give the wake-up kiss/lick.  And the bunny fairies - Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather - are watching over them.  

I'm enjoying doing a pug and bunny spin on fairy tales, so there may be more to come!  I draw pugs too much, but whenever I want to relax and draw something fun, pugs and bunnies just come out of the end of my pen.  I think Sunny has bewitched my pens.

Magical Fairyland

My niece and nephew requested some drawings of "magic fairyland."  I only had access to random pens and crayons and some random descriptions of a fairy castle, lollipop flowers and Rapunzel.  So I pieced together what I could and did a few quick, fun drawings with the pens and some very blunt and limited color crayons.