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Published: 2015-01-14 12:57:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 3100; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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Species depicted: Eastern giant eland (Taurotragus derbianus gigas)Time taken: around 15 minutes per drawing
References used: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeUxbP…
Tools of the trade: Photoshop CS5
A few of the (many) sketches I did to practice drawing Giant elands. Hooved animals in general can be tough for me, but for some reason these guys especially managed to be just not right all the time. Nothing better than lots of sketching to get a feel for their anatomy. These couple were drawn from a video, the link is given above with references.
As their name might suggest Giant elands are the largest of the two eland species, and on top of that the largest antelope in the world. Not to mention they are incredibly beautiful animals as well!
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Comments: 13
oh man i remember several years ago i went to a little safari and saw one of these massive things and i just fell in love
i didnt know what they were until i searched up "huge antelope" on google
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hahaha well I think 'huge antelope' describes them pretty well XD Though I must say that while sketching a striking resemblance to certain cow breeds also became apparent, especially without the horns and markings. So cool you got to see them though, I'd love to meet one some day - be it in the wild or in a zoo.
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Ooh, Eland!
Them and Kudu are probably my favorite African antelopes.
Very cool sketches of the male and female details.
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Ooh yes I love Kudu as well! In fact I'm quite enamoured with many of the larger African antelopes, Nyala and Bushbucks have to be on my favourites list as well 
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There are just so many cool species. It's hard to pick one favorite.
And it really does. Dimorphism is pretty cool.
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One of my favorite species of antelopes!.
Ugh, hooves animals are a pain, the legs
take me quite a bit to get right....
You really did a great job, they look fantastic!!
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Glad to hear they're loved by others as well! And I couldn't agree more, those legs (and also the hooves) can be terribly difficult for me. Thank you for your kind comment
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it's basically like someone stuffed a fcking barrel down their throat (with room for another in that dewlap) www.northernoperationsafrica.c… (dead animal)
common elands are even worse, they look like they've been going on steroids www.africahunting.com/hunting-… www.africahunting.com/hunting-…
gotta love those big boys though
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WTF WHY ARE THEY SO CUTE
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BECAUSE THEY'RE ADORABLE FAT ANTELOPES
THAT ARE STILL TALLER AT THE WITHERS THAN MOST PEOPLE ARE AT THEIR HEAD
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you succeed into creating the good proportions, it's beautiful. i really enjo this species aswell
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Thank you, glad to hear you think so! And great that you're a giant eland fan too. It was so hard for me to get the proportions right, for some reason I never put the legs in the right place, made the belly too small etc. etc. In the end it turned out drawing skeletons helped most of all
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