#orangutan
He’s the long arms of the law.
This is the result of testing out some new brushes in Photoshop. Something that I think is very typical of my art style is very thick outlines, so for this pieces, I decided to use relatively thin outlines, like you might see on a traditionally animated film or in an illustrated children’s book.
He left the biology lesson - that no monkey was capable of bouncing someone up and down by their ankles – found a likely door, and hurry through it.
Guards! Guards! Page 341
Vimes leaves the Librarian to giving a member of the palace guard a… biology lesson. He’s very particular about taxonomy.
As mentioned several times before, I’m not going to pass up a chance to draw the librarian. Even though I think I botched the guard’s feet.
“Oook,“ the Librarian pointed out, patiently.
“What? Oh. Sorry.“ Vimes lowered the ape, who wisely didn’t make an issue of it because a man angry enough to lift 300 pounds of orangutan without noticing is a man with too much on his mind.
Guards! Guards! Page 340
Vimes is so angry he lifts up a three-hundred-pound orangutan without noticing. The Librarian decides not to comment.
When I first ever read this book, for some reason I assumed Vimes lifted the Librarian up by his chest hair. Since clearly, that wouldn’t work, I went with him grabbing under his arms. Admittedly that would require Vimes to think about it enough to notice what he’s doing.
I think this is one of those times you really shouldn’t overthink a joke.