leaping goat

Alternate idea with design lines on the figure (similar to the bull):

the original drawing (visible if you mouseover or click on the image) was a quick sketch done to entertain one of my kids when she was a toddler

kicking goat

put a little more detail on this one, and reworked the eyes

goat

kicking up its heels

billy goat

wild goat

sketched from a stuffed specimen at a musem

goat shapes

sometimes I see shapes of figures in random shadows like people see pictures in the clouds. These goats I saw one day in the rumples of a carpet where the weave had been rubbed the opposite direction by feet.

ungulates

More sketches from the Museum of Natural History.
Mouflon:

Barbary sheep viewed from the side:

and from below:

Leopard and Goat

Soft pastels on paper, 18 x 24"    2005
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Toy Animals

I just did these sketches and had to share with you before my day ends. My two year old has a set of small toy plastic farm animals, and I thought it would be fun to draw some of them. I disparage them for being out of proportion to each other: all could stand side by side in real life, except the monster pig who's larger than the horses and one goat taller than everybody else.


I thought it would just be a quick, amusing exercise but to my surprise I found myself really studying the anatomy of these toy animals, the shapes and masses of their features. They really are more realistic than I had given them credit for. (Although other aspects of them are not realistic: this sheep has pink wool!)



I meant to stop after drawing the goat, but my daughter saw what I was doing and got excited about it, seeing me recreate her animals on the paper. She set one after another in front of me: "now mommy draw this one!" so I kept going.


The donkey gets scorned because his front legs tend to rub ankles and he always falls over when my daughter is trying to line them up, causing her no end of frustration.


This little running apaloosa horse is one that I found on a walk, and got adopted into her collection.


Most of the sketches I did in less than five minutes, but I spent a bit more time on this colt. They are all small drawings, three to five inches. Not much bigger than the toy animals themselves, who are all less than four inches, nose to tail.