First time animal drawing

Hi, guys!

So, the first week of my vacation is almost over. Unfortunately, I had to spend a huge amount of time just to recover from everything experienced on the road, and now I am gradually starting to do what I planned. When I left, my main idea was to spend a month exclusively swimming in the sea and devoting the rest of the time to drawing, and it seems that I am succeeding.

I now have several active courses that I work with. One of them is portrait, the second is animalistic. I've never been good at drawing animals, and today was my first attempt at doing it relatively well. The task was to draw a giraffe using a reference.

It turned out that if you relax and let the drawing just go as he likes, everything becomes much easier. I missed the angle a little, as the requirement was to draw a picture "from the spot", without using a constructive construction.

Here is a giraffe turned out today: