For our first assignment in Animals, People, and Those In Between, we were asked to create portraits of ourselves and our spirit animals:

You + Your Spirit Animal
Due date: Fri (at make-up class)
Format: pdf or physical form (collage, drawing, etc)

What is your spirit animal, power animal or witch’s familiar? For this first assignment, make a (visual) portrait of you + your spirit animal.
You’ll finish it as a pdf or a physical object (drawing, collage or sculpture). Think about how your choice of visual language can help describe you + your animal.

If you get stuck, there are adequate online resources that describe spirit and totemic animals, power animals, divinatory animals, witches’ familiars, etc.

Or you can try this quiz:
http://www.jerismithready.com/quiz/
Or this one:
http://www.gurl.com/play/quizzes/pages/0,,626048,00.html
Or this one
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/7396540237359991942/What-is-Your-Spirit-Animal

I decided to use the Great Horned Owl as my animal. Since we only had a couple of days to develop our sketches, I didn’t know too much about this character except that I wanted him to be enormous. In fact, he is so enormous that sometimes you might overlook him, mistaking him for part of the landscape. Since the character is still a mystery to me, I chose to draw him in silhouette, and to show myself as an explorer:

Me and the Owl