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EDIT: My brother let me use his desktop to draw so I colored the former grayscale! ^0^ I hate working with grayscales . It's hard to get the colors you want right. Hope it looks ok~

Yeah, I drew a dromedary. Totally don't know why I suddenly felt like drawing such an animal. I looked at many refs because I like the look of camelids and ended up sketching one~

As I've been forcing myself to draw more "professionally" lately I took time to think of how to caricature this species effectively. I therefore went for curvy lines and inspired myself from Egyptian and Maghrebian aesthetics as this animal comes from North Africa, hence the thick black eyebrows and the exaggerated curvy nose (I love Aquiline noses by the way). As for the eye, I didn't know how to render eyelashes in a clean way and camel-like animals have long eyelashes that are not to be forgotten, so I encircled his eye with thick dark lines and shaped it in a way similar to ancient Egyptian make-up. I then felt a little twirled beard would give an echo to that eye and reinforce -maybe, the cultural inspiration. I tried to cut the overall wavy linework with some straights here and there. Perhaps I should have used more of straight lines I don't know... I feel it may be a little too curvy. Like, I should have gone straighter on the fur on the below side of the neck.

I loved working on this portrait. I wasn't going for a very detailed shading but also need to work on muscle structures and to be sure I was accurate in my render of anatomy despite the caricatural aspect I decided to render some facial muscles while doing the shading.

Also I'm sorry for the black and white drawings but my computer has shitty color values and I wouldn't want to end up publishing something over-saturated... I'm still not sure if the greyscale I do are ok by the way (don't hesitate to tell me if the contrasts are too high).

Hope you like it~

Inspired by 's work which I adore~
© Arceus55

Description
EDIT: My brother let me use his desktop to draw so I colored the former grayscale! ^0^ I hate working with grayscales . It's hard to get the colors you want right. Hope it looks ok~

Yeah, I drew a dromedary. Totally don't know why I suddenly felt like drawing such an animal. I looked at many refs because I like the look of camelids and ended up sketching one~

As I've been forcing myself to draw more "professionally" lately I took time to think of how to caricature this species effectively. I therefore went for curvy lines and inspired myself from Egyptian and Maghrebian aesthetics as this animal comes from North Africa, hence the thick black eyebrows and the exaggerated curvy nose (I love Aquiline noses by the way). As for the eye, I didn't know how to render eyelashes in a clean way and camel-like animals have long eyelashes that are not to be forgotten, so I encircled his eye with thick dark lines and shaped it in a way similar to ancient Egyptian make-up. I then felt a little twirled beard would give an echo to that eye and reinforce -maybe, the cultural inspiration. I tried to cut the overall wavy linework with some straights here and there. Perhaps I should have used more of straight lines I don't know... I feel it may be a little too curvy. Like, I should have gone straighter on the fur on the below side of the neck.

I loved working on this portrait. I wasn't going for a very detailed shading but also need to work on muscle structures and to be sure I was accurate in my render of anatomy despite the caricatural aspect I decided to render some facial muscles while doing the shading.

Also I'm sorry for the black and white drawings but my computer has shitty color values and I wouldn't want to end up publishing something over-saturated... I'm still not sure if the greyscale I do are ok by the way (don't hesitate to tell me if the contrasts are too high).

Hope you like it~

Inspired by 's work which I adore~
© Arceus55