Drawing Tuesday - endangered species

The rarity of members of endangered species of wildlife might make it difficult to draw one IRL (in real life). What to do?

https://www.iucnredlist.org/ is the website for the Red List of endangered wildlife - animals, birds, insects, plants, amphibians, crustaceans, fish ... lots of choose from there! It's a bit shocking that 28% of species are on this list. (Not to mention those that are extinct already.) 

An artist who used this list for a textile work is Anita Bruce - it was shown in the Prism show at Hoxton Arches a few years back and you can see it here  or here  or, best of all, on Mags' blog 

In 2020 The Big Draw focussed on endangered species.

This is a school project - the results look good! -  "students worked on black paper to create a chalk pastel drawing using a photograph of their endangered animal as reference. A goal of the drawing was to recreate the colors and patterns observed in the photo as closely as possible. The raised line effect was created by applying a mixture of black tempera paint and Elmer’s glue with a squeeze bottle." Using the colours and patterns ... could be interesting ...

If you're handy with watercolours, why not try a few "character sketches" using blobs of paint, a la Moira Frith  -

As well as animals etc, there are some endangered "species" among humans - men who wear ties at home, perhaps, that sort of thing - not to mention endangered languages (Susan Hiller has made work about this) and what we used to call "manners"....

From Sue K Here’s my sketch of the seemingly struggling figure in the pool.

From Mags -  some  electron micrographs  of Madagascan orchid seeds   that at some point I will draw from, I love the abstract lines and patterns.

From Ann - Here are a couple of sketches for a  course some time ago...endangered not quite yet but probably soon...elephant and leopard.

From Gill - I was a punk for one night only…….for a fancy dress party. Laddered fish net tights, ripped T shirt, bicycle chain and sugared hair to make it stand up.

From Janet K - I wondered what to choose among the 1000s of endangered species. As a Canadian I thought a polar bear would be appropriate.

From Janet B - not too late I hope, here are my polar bear skeleton drawn at the Vets College, and my stuffed Kelvingrove polar bear. They were both drawn four years ago. 

From me - Some of Britain's endangered species - a Ladybird Spider, a Leatherback Turtle, and a Dormouse. Waterecolour, without pre-drawing. And not to scale!