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How to Draw a Gorilla Portrait

How to Draw a Gorilla Portrait

A few tips on ape etiquette

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James Gurney
Mar 29, 2024
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If you want to draw portraits of great apes, you have to approach them in the proper way. You can’t just march up to a great ape enclosure and start staring at them, or they’ll get all shy and disgusted and turn their back on you, because staring is a threat to them.

We went to the North Carolina Zoo, the third largest zoo in the U.S.A. We got there earl…

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