I should be working on commissions today but an okapi happened instead oops.

Halothane @ DA is holding a contest to anthropomorphize various animals and when I saw an okapi was one of the choices I had to do it as I've been craving drawing animals I'm not used to as of late.

She has a big ol' belly because okapis have big ol' bellies :P African animals ughh <3

This is my first time ever participating in a contest on DA. I've never really paid much attention to them.

The background is from http://lostandtaken.com/blog/2010/9.....s-lt-news.html off of Google.

Put the species as giraffe since that's their closest relative in the list >.>