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This idea evolved over 5 or so years.
It began with this thumbnail, then the two animals changed places,
with the smaller animal moving to the rear. In the end, I came back
to basically this initial idea. Thumbnails of these ideas can be seen
by clicking on the illustration at left. The major change from here
to the full-sized sketch is that the giraffe's neck is bowed to fill
up the L in the sketch. Click on any illustration for an enlargement. |
| Sketchbook drawing using full-sized letter outline. I almost always start full-sized sketches with a blue pencil to get a good start, then go over that with a regular graphite pencil. Not this time. It went well enough that I felt I didn't need to go over it with another pencil. |
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The final drawing. Not much different from the sketch, other than the giraffe now has an expression on its face. The sketch giraffe was too angelic, too bland. |
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the application of water-based
dyes serves as the underpainting for the colored pencils. |
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| The colored pencil stage...where most of the work is done. | |
| During this final stage of painting with acrylics, I added the whites and yellow-whites to help define forms and to punch up the highlights. |  |
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