Inspired by Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artistsby Carla Sonheim : Lab 2
I drew the giraffes as 2 separate drawings with black fine point sharpie on sketchbook papers, and combined them during scanning (because they make such a cute little family).
I drew these blind contour. I did not look at the paper as I drew, only when I repositioned the pen. I repositioned the pen for the eyes, ears, start of the spot groupings, start of the manes, and the tail on the tall giraffe.
I must have had beginner's luck with these - I am happy with how well they turned out. I tried to draw blind contour elephants later in the day and it was a complete disaster! ha-ha!
This is my "take it further" drawing for the chapter. I drew these three octopi blind contour. I did not look at the paper as I drew, only when I repositioned the pen at the start of each octopus. Drawn with micron pen, colored with Indian ink pens and colored pencil.
*To see all of my work inspired by Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists just click the label "Drawing Lab" below.
2 comments:
Hi Cheryl
Did you consider sending your giraffes into the website "one million giraffes" Have you heard of that project. they have over 950,000 giraffe drawings now (in a quest to reach 1 mil by the end of the year) I have submitted 2 different giraffe doodles, there is a link on my site (just search giraffes) by the way I love you family of them. very cute.
Keep on drawing
Warren
thedoodledaily
Thanks Warren.
I just uploaded my giraffes to: http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/
They are sure getting close to that 1,000,000th giraffe!
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