Revised Giraffes Walking to Acapulco

Last night, before I dozed off, I realized that I’d been drawing my giraffe characters without proper clothing. All of the characters in my children’s picture books are anthropomorphic abstractions who are wearing human clothing, so I had to redraw the giraffes and give them a style that suits them. They’re wearing dark clothes (not pure black) and Robert Smith t-shirts for their day trip to the circus in Acapulco.

Tomorrow I’ll be working on the zebra and the lion, and after that, I’ll tackle the elephants.

Moving On to Pages Three and Four and Giraffes

Today I started working on pages three and four. They will be a two page spread with lots of animals strolling by, some of them semi-realistic and others humanized. The giraffes are not humanized, but now that think about it, they would look great wearing denim jeans and white t-shirts and their long necks shooting up into the sky. I looked at a lot of references today and I can say one thing for sure: giraffes are lovely animals and doting parents. It strikes me that most animals are better parents than the crazy homo sapiens species.