A fairly quick drawing of a Brown Lemur. During my creative slump, someone said to me that I should think about what I like and draw those things that make me happy. Well, lemurs are pretty high up the list. I've always had a 'thing' about Madagascar since I first came across it in an atlas and knew I had to go there.
This is one of my favourite photos - me with a Black lemur on Nosy Komba, a tiny island of the northwest coast of Madagascar (Nosy, pronounced 'nossy', means island). Black lemurs are my favourites and this one is male, the females are brown with white tufts around their ears. So it was a really special moment (I still remember how soft and grippy those little fingers felt!) and to top it all, the person taking the photo was my future husband, but I had no idea at the time! Lemurs are supposed to be our distant cousins and I think I can definitely see a family resemblance with the nose! I must be related to my other favourite animals too - chocolate brown Burmese cats and Dachshunds!
It unusual for me to do a 'fairly quick' drawing of anything with fur, but with this one I managed to create most of it with suggestion and shading but I've added details here and there and around the edges to give it an illusion (I hope) of having more detail than it actually has. On the back, I worked in some shading with a chocolate brown (can you tell I love brown?) and found that a waxy black Luminance pencil brushed over on its side gives it an illusion of having a really thick fuzzy coat.
9 comments:
Good evening Felicity,
that drawing is beautiful and stunning,especially the eyes. I first thought it was a photograph, just incredible.
Maybe you have been a lemur in a former life ? :).
Hi Martin, and thank you!
That's a nice thought! Sadly it's better to have been one in a former life than to be one in the next as their habitat is disappearing so fast.
That is a beautiful drawing...no matter how you did it, it still looks like you spent hours and hours on the fur!
And really, the eyes are riveting.
Thanks Deborah!
Lovely lemur Felicity. You've been busy too!
Super drawing (as always).
Have you seen Stephan Fry's 'Last Chance to See'? You can probably get it online through the BBC. One of the programs is in Madagascar with different lemurs. I fell in love with them at the Durell place on Jersey. The ring tailed chaps are wonderful. On the program they also showed the dancing lemurs. So very much fun and so very delightful.
Hi Felicity,
this drawing is so beautiful, and really doesn't seem to be a 'quick' one.
Your remarks are so fun to read (especially the one about being related :) Nice story.
Best regards,
Carolina
Thanks ladies!
Sally, I should have mentioned it, but I drew it from Stephen Fry's programme!
I adore lemurs too, even though I've never had the privilege to meet one in person as you have. And that you met your husband over lemurs in Madagascar! How wonderfully exotic. Your drawing is wonderful!
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