Daily Zoo Year 2: Keeping the Doctor at Bay with a Drawing a Day

by Chris Ayers

Following in the successful paw and hoof prints of The Daily Volume One comes another exotic menagerie of creative fauna from Hollywood artist Chris Ayers. The Daily Zoo Year 2 offers more furry and feathered friends along with continuing reflections on his life as an artist and cancer survivor. And, as with Volume 1 and perhaps more so, regardless of your artistic experience, this book will leave you inspired to grab the nearest pencil, pen, brush or crayon and start drawing ... for fun and perhaps as a way to bring healing!

Genres: Art

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

Given this is a sequel of the first volume and laid out in the same narrative format as the first volume, have a read of my discussion of Chris Ayers' series as part of a larger conversation in the study of graphic medicine:

https://www.fanbasepress.com/index.ph...

[Parka · Rating 5 out of 5]

(More pictures at parkablogs.com)

Daily Zoo Year 2 continues where the first has left off. Chris Ayers provides us with yet another year of wonderful characters and reflects on his treatment from leukemia with interesting and inspiring stories.

The Daily Zoo is incredibly fun with its humorous and oftentimes whimsical illustrations. It is in many ways better than a real zoo. Where else can you see stuff like Bridezilla, Unicycling Uakari, Badass-ilisk, Saggy Bunnies, a few dinosaurs, aliens or even a carnivorous Christmas tree? There is no lack of surprises from cover to cover.

Chris Ayers gives his animals so much character you'll feel you know them from somewhere. The drawings are beautiful and detailed, especially the textures on the animals. He also shares lots of tips on character design.

This book is filled with creativity and it's such an inspiring read. It also comes with a bookmark and postcard.

Very highly recommended. I hope there another year coming.

[Asna]

Daily Zoo always inspiring. I barely draw animal so I really enjoyed reading it. This book's cover different than mine though, I have the one with elephant in cover while BG color looks like first book. I'm waiting for year 3 now :3

[Ray Quirolgico · Rating 5 out of 5]

The journey of this artist’s cancer survival continues, and what a sweet happy ride-along this creative journal of one year in his life provides.