11" x 17". ink, pencil. 2005.

The recent camel stuff, plus seeing something by ebryn, reminded me
of this older image. I do so very much like wildebeest (or "wildebai"), but
they gets almost no love anywhere. I like how they are stong and gangly
at the same time, and the whole whippy tail and mane thing and the horns
and big ears and noses :D what's not to like. Except how it all fits together :P
They've got all the right parts, buuuut...

They've got horns, but they aren't at all beefy like a bull, so there isn't much for that crowd. They've got hooves and manes and so on, but they aren't as graceful and classically beautiful as horses, so nix on that. They've got stripes, but c'mon, zebras and tigers are so much classier, I'll admit. They have scrawy little legs and hips, but they are sooo disproportionately top heavy in the upper back and neck that they can't really pull off the "twink" look either. Plus they're herd animals, I mean, they aren't even terribly clever, or gracefully fast like an antelope or whatever.

Whatever the attribute is, other more attractive animals have it better.

However, even the least interesting person in the room has that singular
attribute nobody else in the room possesses.

But yeah, with that said, I've only made this one image of them :P

Will have to get on that. I would more personally identify with them,
except that I'm really not that cool, and I have no further understanding of
them other than what they look like.

Oh, to see just how little love they get, check out the wikipedia article.
The text is barely longer than the picture :P Compare that to... oh say,
"cat".

Also, didn't they kill Mufasa? :D
Please refrain from pointing me to any Gary Gnu rule 34, kthnx.