February 07, 2008

Not to be confused with the non-Chinese one...

(Posted early for maximum holiday appreciation)

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the rat:

click above for larger view

A rough pen sketch, cleaned up and colored in Photoshop (2.5 hours total--pretty quick, for me).

4 comments:

ren said...

ahhhhh! tooooo cuuuuuute! burning my eyes!


no seriously, i love it.


except for the burning.

Anonymous said...

i used to breed mice

Don Chente said...

sure he looks all cute and stuff.., but don't be fooled! I mean it has red eyes, so help me God, it has red eyes!

J.Ho said...

ren: thanks, burning is one of my goals with this blog.

d00dl3r: me too, but not on purpose... got two mice and they happened to be male and female. a few weks later i had 14 mice. O_O

don: GAZE NOT INTO THE EYES OF SQUEAKY THE WORLD BREAKER!