Cute?

I'm still trying to keep up with this thing. I have had a few things I am stuck on. The one pictured here is Wishing Totem Pole. As I have mentioned one of the reasons I am doing this is to get out of the habit of reference material, ie copying photos and other pictures.

I was trying to get something different for this picture, something more animated or silly, cute even.. I think this doodle/study better shows what I wanted than what I came up with. This only justifies working in this no reference material way. Both develop a style and to learn to draw out of the box so to speak. Problem solving as it were. I was very tempted to look at some pictures of totem poles and such to do this but I resisted temptation.

Unlike here where the next word pair is Fish Lamp . I have been looking at Anglers and pretended that if I can use them for other things and it won't count as cheating. This is not the Fish Lamp study.

After Fish Lamp is Super Hero Sausage, I have no idea what I am going to do with that.
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