I’d recommend approaching this week’s prompts in one of two ways: 
 

Option One: Create “Quick Characters”

Draw each of the prompts in the usual MAE way, one per day. For each of the animal or creature prompts, think of a way you could characterize them. You can do this in a number of ways. They can be in a more human-like pose, or you can depict them performing an action. You can add some clothing or fun accessories. Give them a personality trait. Depict them portraying an emotion. Check out this People Skills tutorial about manipulating the facial features to convey different emotions. 
 

Option Two: Create a fully-developed animal character

Choose one animal to develop fully as a character using the methods we employed in last week’s Build-A-Character. Pick an animal from this week’s prompt list. Write a profile for the character, then progress each day, designing your character’s clothing, accessories, facial features, hair (or in this case, the texture and coloring of it’s fur/feather/scales/etc.), body shape, and finally, putting it all together. Find all the details and tutorials about how to build a character on the Character Camp page. Depending on how much time you have this week, try doing a couple animals! 

Whichever option your choose, first take a moment to read over my article from last week: How to Develop a Character for Illustration