itesser ink: progress, uncensored

See?

Reagan was there, too, oddly enough. In this photo he is getting snacks.

This multi-part report won't be in order because I prefer to go in order of file names instead of chronology. And it's too late to rename files to fit chronology.

Everything was drawn from live references, there are just some pictures that were taken at the same time from the same angle of the same animal. :)

We saw leopards. Very fluffy and difficult to draw.




The lemurs were far away across a moat (of water!), and many of them were in un-sketchable postures or were far away/obscured...



...like so...


... or so.

Thank zoom for that one.


The silverback gorilla was more to our tastes than the bonobos. And it moved more slowly. A plus for my method and pace of analog capture.




This is a cool gorilla, too.




The lion was pretty neat. We got to hear it coughing a bunch of times, like mini roars. It's an amazing sound. Near the end of our stay we heard it from an exhibit or two away and ran to see if we could watch it hack up a hairball or something. We were able to watch it "roar", but no luck on a hairball sighting.





Last of all (for today), the giraffes! They're the animal I probably had the hardest time drawing. Reagan did well, though. I don't do well with long lines, and giraffes are, well, all long lines. Reagan did much better. Let's see if he'll post his sketches from the zoo. :)





Not many photos of the giraffes either, ah well.

Tomorrow is another (better!) day!