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Academy of Sciences Animal Studies

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I went to the California Academy of Sciences last week with my class. So much fun, OMG! :la:
The idea was to sketch the animals and dioramas (mostly dioramas) there to then develop a character based on one of them. It had to be either a quadruped or a bird, though. Couldn't be an invertebrate or fish or snake.
My final character design is here: Hirola Character by comixqueen

Seems our field trip happened to line up with the field trips of, like, all the Elementary Schools in the area, because there were countless tour groups of children there...
At one point, a little girl sort of attached herself to me and orbited around me for what felt like 15 minutes or so. That would've been fine (heck, adorable, even!) if she hadn't been disrupting my drawing focus by asking so many questions, many of them the same 5 or 6 over and over again....("Are you really and artist? Do you really love drawing? Why are you copying it? Are you going to show it to everyone? Are you going to take it home and color it? Are you really an artist?" etc, etc :dead:)
The ink sketch of the sable antelope is a direct response to this.
Thank god for my zoo docent training! Otherwise I wouldn't have known how to deal with her!

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I adore drawing at the Academy. I had a membership for a year, just to go and draw. I think their memberships are faaar too expensive, however. The deYoung museum next door is also a fabulous place to draw, and their memberships are much more affordable.

I'm lucky that I haven't had too many young ones run me through the question mill, but regardless, for many young people, it may be their only real experience interacting with a working artist. Artists are still relatively misunderstood and undervalued in our society, so it's important that young people experience artists in a positive light. :)