On sunday I took the train up to London to visit the zoo and draw some of the animals. Despite it being absolutely freezing, and raining on and off, I think it went quite well and I got some useful drawings. I didn't manage to draw quite as much as I had hoped, and I took far less photos than I normally would as I was spending the time drawing instead. But the drawings I did get should be quite helpful to me, and I have plenty of photos from pervious trips that I can use as reference.
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| Sketches from London Zoo: Lion, reindeer, giraffe, gorilla. |
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| Sketches from London Zoo. |
These drawings should help me when I develop my work, as I have been able to capture the animals in many more positions and movements than I would have been able to just looking at images online. I also made a few quick sketches of the markings on some of the animals to help me later on in the project.
There are a few animals that I didn't manage to draw either because they weren't visible or they don't have them at the zoo, I'll be spending a while this week doing some quick sketches from photos I took at previous trips to zoos (I will give my self 30-60 seconds per image to try and get the same effect that I did when drawing them from life) as well as from a few short videos that my boyfriend took whilst we were there.
Here are some of the photos (all taken by me on previous trips) that I'll be using:
