Antelope - Blog Posts
Just a simple antelope painting I'm working on. This is the lineart, I'll upload the finished painting soon. Just did it, because I don't learnt from my mistakes, and accept many projects at the same time, so didi it in my free time as a simple and relazing drawing. It took me 7 tries to get the head righ :b
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I was trying to get into school for Scientific Illustration (which I did! Yay!), but at the time I needed to build up my portfolio. My art teacher recommended that I draw something super eye catching. After spending quite awhile finding something that would look good in black and white, I found this. It was an incredible photo taken by National Geographic. Sadly the antelope did not make it. But if you look at this picture and imagine...it did. ;)
I never like the beginning of my drawings. I think they always look like crap. I’m a “finished art” person. Unless someone does a simplistic drawing - I love those. That takes a very special other set of skills to pull off.
I ended up flicking some white paint at it to give some water droplets. I also had fun jabbing my pencil at this a bunch for the black dots. The original image was of a lion and an antelope chance meeting at a watering hole. Mud, dirt, water flying...IT WAS A FIREFIGHT!
Haha this face. This is the face of an antelope who tells the god of death “not today.”
Pronghorns 4-26-23
Dude I spent like a full hour trying to sketch the big guy’s face, then finished the rest of the body in five minutes. Fml
Mexican Pronghorn
The number of these animals has been reduced by %99. It has been tried to be reintroduced in Coahuila, Mexico in 1995 and 1998 but the results haven't been promising.
Low nutrients plants, lack of water that many times compete with cattle, and the number of predators haven't created the best environment for the Pronghorn to flourish. These elements have resulted in the distress of the animals that aren't able to reproduce normally. References: Monitoring a Pronghorn Mammals of North America Itis Wikipedia *Photo Reference Credit: Toxostoma _____________________________________________
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Baja California Pronghorn, Peninsular Pronghorn
Pronghorn are very special animals. They are the only animals that have a mixture between antlers and horns. Horns are made of keratin mostly and have only one point. Antlers, on the other hand, are made of bone and shed every year. The horns of the pronghorn are made of both keratin and bone that are shed as antlers, every year.
During the colonization, pronghorns were even more numerous than bison. It is said that their herds get lost on the horizon, they were as vast as the sight could see. It was estimated that more than 100 million pronghorns inhabited North America. However, by 1920 their numbers dropped to 13.000. Today, all five subspecies are endangered and the number of Baja California Pronghorn is estimated at about 150.
I never put much attention to this animal. Somehow, I never found it attractive. Since I am reading about them I think they are amazing. Along with the bison, the pronghorn shaped the evolution of humans in North America, providing food and shelter.
References:
Wikiwand Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens. San Diego Wildlife Alliance
*Photo Reference Credits: Klaus Rudloff
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Antilocapridae Family Sonoran Pronghorn
This is a very interesting family and a very small one. It is formed by one species and five subspecies. Today, the Sonoran Pronghorn.
Owes its name to the Sonoran desert where it inhabits. I could not find physical differences with the other subspecies. However, these subspecies can survive longer without water.
The Pronghorns are the fastest mammal in the New World. It is often called the Antelope of America because of its resemblance to the African ones, however, its closest relatives are the giraffes.
This subspecies along with the others is endangered. It shares the habitat with an active United States Air Force Bombing range.
No more than 200 hundred survived in the United States and is believed that in Mexico its numbers are even lower. I want to thank Nick Athanas for allowing me to use one of his amazing pictures as a reference. You can check out his awesome work here. References: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sonoran_pronghorn https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antilocapra_americana
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