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The
U is another of those letters that I have trouble illustrating.
I find it dificult to come up with a design that has that shape.
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| Sketchbook drawing turned into drawings (plural). I just wasn't sure how to position this huge, bony animal into that very restrictive shape. I wanted to use a long-handled brush as the scrubbing device, but I couldn't get the giraffe to grip the handle without giving him hands, so he's using a washcloth. |
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The final drawing. You'll notice I added a towel. I did this for reasons related to humor: First, if a female is wearing a shower cap, it isn't at all funny...that's who commonly wears a shower cap after all. Plus, it's only funny if a male is caught in this kind of embarassing situation. Unfair as it may be to half of us, that's the way it is. So, I added a "His" towel, and now there's no doubt. Wait a minute! Maybe she's using his towel... |
| There's an awful lot of whites and lights in this illustration, so I used less watercolor dyes than usual. |  |
| The colored pencil stage where most of the detail work is done...and overdone. I was planning on a yellow shower cap right up to the final stage. | |
| I made the cap green to balance the green of the shower curtain. I refined everything with acrylics, and, after an eon of putzing, I called it complete. |  |
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