Some Zoodles

I went on a brief zoo sketching trip a few weeks ago with a couple of talented dudes. and I finally scanned a couple of the drawings last night. I still have a lot more sketchbook pages to scan, so more doodles to come soon...

Peccaries!:

We realized that the male gerenuk has it made:

 Le, Justin and I on our way out of the zoo....

And my favorite photo of the day:

Zoo Doodles (Zoodles?)

A few of us have been going to the zoo every couple of weeks to go sketching. So far it's been fun (though I still feel like I'm relearning how to draw animals). Here are a couple of pages I scanned:






Unfortunately, I completely forgot to bring sunblock to this last outing. My skin tends to get confused by prolonged exposure to sunlight, and this time around, I ended up with a couple of sunburned areas, some tanned areas, and more freckles (but only on one side of my face). Meanwhile, my legs did not tan at all:

Kids, wear your sunblock.

Wildlife Waystation Sketches

On Saturday I had the privilege of going to the Wildlife WayStation with Alice Herring, Carrie Liao, and a group of other artists. It was a pretty amazing experience--I've never had the chance to see these animals at such close range before. Here are a couple of sketchbook pages from the day:

Nala the lioness


And a pair of grizzly bear sisters.

The three of us had so much fun at the WayStation we were thinking of doing an LA zoo drawing day in a couple of weekends. If anyone else is interested, please let us know and we will post details in the coming weeks :)

Zoo Drawings

I went to the LA zoo today with some friends from Titmouse. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do this more often. My animal drawing is rusty at best, but I found some pages to post. I will return to the LA zoo for round 2 this Saturday, with school friends (anyone who wants to meet us there is welcome! We'll probably be there around noon).

Alligators:


The koalas were awake when we got to their enclosure! And posing like Betty Paige no less:


Sadly only 1 giraffe drawing done. We got to the enclosure shortly before closing and we saw him for maybe two freaking minutes before they put him away.


Gerenuks:

Gorillas are cool! Alas, I suck at drawing them:

I drew these flamingos from memory and colored it with a highlighter and a couple of markers. It's a fun time of the year to draw flamingos at the zoo. Normally I skip over them because they're so smelly, but it's mating season and the males are now doing their courtship displays/fighting with each other for female attention: