Daily Sketch: Kids Farm

Live animals are incredibly difficult to draw, as you can imagine.  They are always moving - even when they are sitting still.  This alpaca was lying down the entire time I was drawing.  But he would turn his head every three seconds.  I could draw a well detailed body with an ill defined head, but that's stupid.  Instead, on one page, I kept three running sketchs of its face, one for each position it would take.  I would work on one position until it moved, then work on the next.  And I would rotate between these three positions until they were all complete.  

Cows move more than alpacas.  And pigs in the afternoon sun are great subjects.

Enjoy!