| Various monkey gesture drawings from the L.A. Zoo.
Pencil sketches. |
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| Goat poses. They're pretty
amusing little animals to watch.
Pencil sketches. |
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| A Goat Portrait.
Pencil sketches. |
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| A head structure portrait of a
goat.
Pencil sketch. |
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| Even more goats! Geez Tracy,
can't you draw anything but *&@+ goats? ;)
Pencil sketch. |
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| My mother's pet cat, William.
Pencil sketch. |
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| William, sleeping.
Pencil sketch. |
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| Horse hindquarters studies.
Pencil. |
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| Horse hindquarter studies in motion.
Pencil. |
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| A very simple flamingo. Watercolor.
Pencil. |
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| A little unknown bird of the L.A. aviary. Watercolor.
Pencil. |
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| Pencil sketch portrait of a Cassowary. |
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| Some sort of african antelope from
the L.A. Zoo.
Ballpoint pen sketch. |
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| A Great Dane. The instructor
had us capture the forms of the animal first with watercolor; and then
outline the details with a pencil. |
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| Being a life-drawing model may
seem like the easy life, but it can get pretty boring... |
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A quick pen sketch page of the
world's smallest antelope, the Dik-Dik!
Cute and shy little critters, about
as big as a capybara.
Ballpoint sketches. |
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| A Giant Eland from the Los Angeles
Zoo. This is a favorite animal of the local artists...this is the
common position, and he holds it for a long time.
Watercolor. |
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| A fennec fox! From 'The Living
Desert" in Palm Desert, California.
Those ears are just enormous.
Pencil sketch. |
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| A head study of a fennec fox.
Pencil sketch. |
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| Baby Gerenuks from the Los Angeles
Zoo.
Pencil sketches. |
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| A reclining Ibex from the Los Angeles
Zoo.
Watercolor. |
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| A Miniature Pinscher chewing on
a toy.
Pencil sketch. |
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| One of the tricks to better life
drawing is to look for the skeleton inside the animal and try to draw it.
The resulting drawings may look creepy, but they're valuable learning tools.
Pencil. |
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| Another sample of the above. Watercolor, with penciled skeleton details.
Pencil. |
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