Snakes # 3 (Patreon)

Ok, I've managed to draw another two snakes -- and tidy them, and composite them into the building montage. I've added numbers purely to see what they look like as goes the composition - things will be different in the final version. The new animals here are (6) Acrochordus (a file snake or elephant trunk snake) and (9) Vipera (this is V. berus, the Adder). File snakes and vipers both have fossil records - I could say a lot more on that issue, but rest assure that it's all covered in the book. Both animals were drawn from photos.

As per last time, the animal at lower right - 8 - is not a snake, but an anguid. I'll remove it eventually: I'm keeping it there for now for reasons of composition.

More snakes coming. I shall probably produce some elapids next. I'm avoiding the drawing of especially big snakes because they'll be at such a different scale relative to everything shown here. The Big Book continues to come together -- albeit slowly :(