Animals Playing Instruments – #kidlitart's Twenty-Eight Day Challenge

The folks over at #kidlitart* wanted to help illustrators find their voices as illustrators, so they set up this challenge.

The idea is to draw something every day for the month of February featuring a theme, creature, idea, character, etc. that you LOVE. 'To illustrate things that you are ALL ABOUT – not just as an artist. As a person. What tickles your fancy? What do you geek out about? What stories would you tell if you just had the chance?'

I've had this idea for a while to illustrate the alphabet with animals playing instruments, since I love art, animals and music. I started out innocently enough, then I got to researching both animals and instruments I've never heard of, and it starts to get really exotic! I am having a lot of fun with this!

Here are the first batch:

ALLIGATOR PLAYING AN ACCORDION

BADGER PLAYING BONGOS

CAPYBARA PLAYING CYMBALS

DIK-DIK PLAYING A DJEMBE

ELEPHANT PLAYING AN EUPHONIUM

FERRET PLAYING A FLUGELHORN

  

GOAT PLAYING A GUITAR

HEDGEHOG PLAYING A HARMONICA

 AN INDRI PLAYING AN IYA ILU

 

* #kidlitart is an hour-long Twitter chat on Thursday nights at 8 pm Central, where children's illustrators talk about anything to do with kidlit art.