Draw something from a giraffe's view
Draw a scene from a giraffe’s eye level, showing tall trees, distant ground, and sky; practice perspective, scale, and observational drawing skills.
Step-by-step guide to draw a scene from a giraffe's eye level
Step 1
Sit at a table and place your paper flat in front of you.
Step 2
Lightly draw a horizontal eye-level line across the page about one-third from the top.
Step 3
Sketch a tall tree trunk that starts below the eye-level line and goes off the top edge of the page.
Step 4
Sketch two more trees farther away that are shorter and thinner to show distance.
Step 5
Add branches and leaves high up on the trees to make a leafy canopy.
Step 6
Draw a low distant ground line near the bottom of the page with tiny bushes or rocks to show the faraway land.
Step 7
Draw a close-up foreground branch or tall grasses at the bottom that overlap the edge of the page to look nearby.
Step 8
Add tiny animals or little birds near the horizon to show scale and distance.
Step 9
Choose the lines you like best and go over them with a darker pencil to finalize the shapes.
Step 10
Gently erase extra sketch marks to clean up your drawing.
Step 11
Color the sky trees ground and foreground using your coloring materials to bring the scene to life.
Step 12
Share your finished creation on DIY.org.
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use if we don't have the paper, pencil, or coloring materials listed in the instructions?
Use a flattened cereal box or cardboard as your 'paper', any pencil or ballpoint pen to lightly draw the horizontal eye-level line and tree sketches, and substitute crayons, washable markers, or torn colored paper glued on for the coloring step.
My tall tree doesn't reach off the top edge or my foreground isn't looking close—how can I fix that?
Lightly erase and redraw the tall trunk so it starts below the horizontal eye-level line and extends off the top edge, then make the foreground branch or grasses much larger and overlapping the bottom edge to show closeness, using the eraser and redrawing steps from the instructions.
How can I change the activity for younger or older kids?
For younger kids simplify by drawing big trunk shapes and using stickers or chunky crayons during the 'Add branches and leaves' and 'Color' steps, while older kids can add texture, shading, smaller distant trees, and tiny animals near the horizon to increase realism.
What are some ways to enhance or personalize the giraffe-view drawing?
Personalize by gluing real leaves or torn green paper onto the leafy canopy, painting a sky gradient before coloring the trees, signing and dating the back, and then sharing your finished creation on DIY.org as suggested.
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Facts about perspective drawing
🧠 A giraffe's neck has only seven vertebrae, the same number as a human neck, but each one is much longer.
👅 A giraffe's prehensile tongue is about 45 cm (18 in) long and helps them grab leaves from tall trees like acacias.
📐 Artists use vanishing points so distant objects look smaller — that’s how you show depth and scale from a giraffe’s eye level.
🦒 Giraffes are the tallest land animals — adult males can reach about 5.5 meters (around 18 ft) tall.
🌍 Giraffes live mainly on African savannas — wide open landscapes with tall trees and big skies, great for practicing tall-tree perspective.
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