So recently, I decided to re-join Neopets with a brand new account for a fresh start. I currently have six pets on there, four of which were pound rescues (I definitely plan on adopting more if I find a way to buy some Neocash in order to get more pet slots), and I decided to draw the oldest out of my pets: Runawaydino the Darigan Grarrl!
I found this guy via a fansite called The Lost and Pound, which is basically a directory for pets that are currently in the Neopian Pound. I was looking for a Grarrl to adopt on there and this guy really stuck out to me. Not because he had a fancy paint brush color or anything (in fact, this guy was originally plain old green before I painted him), but because of his age. The site said that he was created all the way back in Y8 (aka 2006), which made him a particularly old pet. His original owner created him back when the Neopets site was very different than it is today, over a year before the Customization era started. Because of that, I thought it would be fun to draw him in one of those old circle backdrops that the site's pets had at the time. I also had to include his pet Gruslen Cheyenne in there because she's super cute. This was my first time drawing both a Grarrl and a Gruslen and I think both turned out pretty nice.
Side note: I was watching Pixar's Onward when I started sketching this and because of that I now picture Runawaydino sounding like Barley Lightfoot. 😀
