Giraffe attempt
This was incredibly difficult for me to try and capture. This is my very first attempt at trying to capture a Giraffe. I sketched it first from a photo from arkive.org. Then i used Pebeo Chinese ink with calligraphy dip pen. Then i covered the entire giraffe with W/N opaque white watercolour paint, and while it was still wet, added some gamboge yellow brusho watercolour. Once that was dry, i used Brusho brown for the markings, the white was still wet on the markings, and so it added light and dark markings which i feel is more realistic, but not what i had originally thought about doing :-p the water i had tried using Reeves ultramarine blue, but it is years old and did not work very well, so that is going in the bin :-) so i then used Brusho Prussian blue with a little leaf/dark green here and there :-) the paper is the same sheet but the back of the Blue Chaffinch i uploaded yesterday :-) it is from St Cutherberts Mill and i think roughly 535gsm, not too sure :-) hope you all do not hate it :-p any advise regarding giraffe drawing for beginners? :-)
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