08/12/07 - Sketchbook - Animals for Clara to Color

Last Sunday I started doing some animal sketches from Jack Hamm's How to Draw Animals book and the Famous Artists equivalent. The first few were pretty shaky but I started getting into it and then went on to draw this gorilla in ink directly (no pencil sketch) from a Cincinatti Zoo flier. The colors are by Clara. She likes to cut each animal out before painting them with watercolors. Except where noted these were drawn over a pencil sketch with Micron Brush pen and Staedtler Pigment Liners.

This was fun and followed our trip to Lousiville zoo a couple of weeks ago (may later post those very rough sketches drawn from life in the heat...had to wipe the sweat from the pages!). I need to spend more time learning about and drawing our fellow creatures here on earth.