Rhapsodies

I’ve been having an extremely productive week so I decided to give myself a treat and play cookie this afternoon and go to the zoo. I’d mostly going on Fridays but I’d been cutting it a little too close with winter closing time so I figured I’d see if I had other options for good quiet drawing times during week days.

Regrettably this wasn’t really one of them there were plenty of kids around though when coning in it looked like I just missed a field trip.

As I had in the last few times I did this I focused on all my favorite hominids. The Gorilla enclosure had a little too much going on so even though I got a few good sketches of Leo the Silverback sleeping, there were too many kids around to get a good look at the females, and the kids had them a little too pumped up anyway.

I had better luck at the Orangutan enclosure where I did this sketch. Unfortunately this guy left right after I got the basic gesture down, but I was able to get most of the key details in from memory. Therefore what we have here is a halfway decent cartoon of an Orangutan, but a lousy portrait.