Hi! The name's Aly and I'm an aspiring animator at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Starting next semester I'll be a sophomore, and I'm really excited to finally start taking some courses in animation! I usually prefer to make digital artwork, but from time to time I enjoy torturing my poor poor hands and soul by taking on some pointillism as well. I'm a huge D&D geek, and I love listening to music and reading graphic novels.
Back at home there's a place called the National Marine Life Center, where I visited their inhabitants all the time. I learned a bunch about marine life as a kid, and I even ended up volunteering there weekly throughout middle and high school. NMLC's a really special place to me and I have fond memories of working with their turtles and visiting the seals they rehabilitated there. I definitely recommend checking NMLC out if you're interested, they're wonderful people and they do a lot to keep the community interested and involved in marine life.
https://nmlc.org/
Anyways! My project is going to be a picture book that’ll illustrate the similarities and differences between seals, sea lions, and walruses. Also known as pinnipeds. I really hope to make my work simple and easy to read, so even kids could read it, and not have it feel like a total chore, as if it's reading a school textbook or something. Here are a few boys I've drawn for project potentially~
I named this seal Greg
This is Thomas
And here's Larry
I'm not sure if I'm actually going to name them in the finished product, but if not, you have now obtained some Pinnipeducation lore:)