Giraffe

These are curious creatures – elegant yet ungainly, innocent yet inscrutable, tall yet … well just really tall.

Initially I did a sketch of the whole beast, but I only had a small sketch pad so was frustrated that I couldn’t draw the animal’s gaze in any detail because the height was dominating everything. So I did another sketch, which for most other animals would be a “head and shoulders” but which for this subject is just a “head and upper neck”! I was quite pleased with the slightly cheeky grin that emerged …