For most artists it would be a challenge to draw a recognizable head from this odd angle:
Sullivant goes much further, distorting the head with a comical hodge podge of bizarre shapes. Yet, it is still persuasive.
And look at how fearlessly Sullivant depicts this sleeping pig, or the chicken's butt in the air:
In this next drawing, Sullivant doesn't need to show a face; he gives us all the information we need with that wild beard and stooped posture:
Here, the elephant has inadvertently hurt the feelings of the giraffe:
This could be my favorite drawing of a crying giraffe:
And here, enjoy Sullivant's picture of wicked cave boys tormenting a poor dinosaur:
We can see from the original how Sullivant shaped the dinosaur as he went along, scratching out some of the lines of the head to achieve the structure he wanted:
A stumbling, upside down dinosaur, mid-air and foreshortened-- now that's doing it the hard way!
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