Today I made this little guy. My reference was my own photo and the real life otter from a nearby Zoo. The real animal was actually eating a chicken, but I thought a fish fitted the drawing better.
I was trying so hard to work with confident lines since the shape of otters is so amazingly fluid. So I had a rule in this drawing: My first initial quick swirly scribble will be the entire overside of the otter. So I did a few quick confindent wavy random lines to test it out. As I had done a few lines I liked, I decided for one of them to be the base line for the entire drawing.
Getting the texture of wet fur down was a challenge in Photoshop, but it was fun playing with different brushes to get the right effect.
