Each year the Bronx Zoo hosts a Run for the Wild to raise awareness and funds for a specific conservation issue. This year it’s a run for penguins, this Saturday morning, April 30, 7:00 – 9:30 am. Go to the zoo site for details: http://www.bronxzoo.com/

We’ll have five artists there turning the runners, their families and guests into penguins, in every way we can think of. Even in a single animal theme like this we strive for creativity variety.

Part of my job as “artistic director” of a company of talented artists is to give them a head start on taking a creative approach to a new theme like this by doing some new designs to expand the repertoire. Penguins make for some great faces, because you can easily do a simplified but recognizable penguin image that then allows you to put multiple penguins on a face, and to put them into scenes and to give them personality.

a couple of the new sketches I did for this event

I tried out one of these designs at an event in March.

Last year’s run was for tigers. You can see the faces I did for that one here: