Sustained Investigation #14

For my sustained investigation #13-#14 I have been working on a mother giraffe with her baby. So far I have finished the baby giraffe and will start sketching out the mother to. I chose to draw a mother giraffe and her baby because a work friend of mine is having a baby soon and planned on making her nursery based off giraffes. I also chose giraffes because I can use shades of oranges and yellow for the color with hints of reds.

So far I used a reference image that I printed out and did the grids to create a larger scale version of the image. And then started sketching out the baby giraffe and made sure all the proportions matched the image so it would look nice.

I didn't really experiment with anything differently for this sketching process, I did the same thing I always do. At first I was gonna do like a collage, I printed out a picture of a lion and a tiger cut them in half equally and aligned the two pictures to make it look like the tiger and lion had the same face... but decided against it and did a mother giraffe with her baby. My next steps are to complete the mother giraffe and start with the base colors.