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Thinking back, I can remember some of the important bunnies I encountered in media and how they influenced me toward being the bunny I am today. What you're seeing here is me paying tribute to them by drawing Jennie in some semblance of their style. I have been using visual and pose references to draw these, yes, but you can probably tell that I didn't trace them, because the originals are much better done. I hope I don't get in trouble for this; these are meant as tributes, and I present them with respect to the authors and artists who inspired me. So, from left to right:
The Trix Rabbit. I always felt sorry for the poor guy. Come on, just let him eat some cereal! In 1976, to coincide with the US Presidential election, Trix had an "election" where kids could send in their "ballots" and vote for whether or not the Rabbit should get to eat Trix. I voted yes! I got a button to wear that said I voted yes. And I remember the vote being no, and again the poor Rabbit was denied his delicious sweet but vitamin-fortified breakfast. But Wikipedia and a lot of others claim that the vote went yes. I don't remember seeing the Rabbit get to eat Trix. Apparently they did the same election thing in 1980, but I don't remember that one. I found a commercial on YouTube that (judging from the art style) is probably from the 1980 election, showing the Rabbit winning and eating the cereal. Perhaps he won in 1980 but lost in 1976?
Miffy, by Dutch children's author Dick Bruna. This adorable little rabbit girl has a lot of colorful adventures that help teach children to read. Bruna has published over 100 books, and Miffy appears in nearly 30 of them. Miffy has had two animated television series, but the books are the best. I learned last year that Miffy's original Dutch name is Nijntje, which is short for "Konijntje," which means "Little Rabbit." My parents bought me several Dick Bruna books and read them to me over and over until I knew them by memory and could "read" them without knowing how to read the actual words. :)
When I was in college I discovered a wonderfully snarky and cynical comic strip called "Life in Hell" by alternative cartoonist Matt Groening (rhymes with "Complaining"). Then I found out that he was making some short animations for the Tracy Ullman Show, something about a family called the Simpsons ... Anyway, his crudely drawn cartoon rabbits taught me that I wasn't the only one who considered middle school/junior high school to be the deepest pit in Hell (although of course I was in college by the time I was reading this) and that it was quite normal to find many of the people I met to be horrible. :D (I am a much more positive person now than I was then.)
Back to childhood again -- Beatrix Potter's books, especially The Tale of Peter Rabbit, are beloved favorites of many, and I remember my parents reading Peter Rabbit to me over and over again when I was little. I remember The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (a frog) and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin too. Also The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes (another squirrel). I had a board game based on several of the books. Also I remember having a set of dishes with Peter Rabbit on them -- if I ate all my food, I got to see Peter at the bottom of the bowl. Or maybe it was the carrots. I don't remember which.
Pat the Bunny is a book for very young children by Dorothy Kunhardt. It had a lot of activities in it, like patting a picture of a bunny that was covered with soft (artificial) bunny fur. It was for teaching babies words. I wore out a copy of this book with all my touching and patting and poking and whatnot, and my younger brother got his own fresh copy.
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