Gorilla Business

Most artists have two or three images they work on at the same time. I typically have two or more in development and many tessellations that haven't been previously used. This drawing is based on a tessellation I completed a number of years ago after I did  a quick sketch in one of my sketchbooks. Its probably been in the sketchbook for a couple of years, I'm not really sure. This "tessellation shape" was used for another lithograph I completed many years ago called "George". Gorilla Business was created from that same basic shape but I changed the image somewhat and I finally got around to making the drawing.  Its based on one of the simplest of the 17 types of tessellations(D1kk). Hope you like it. 
​All of my drawings are originally developed on tracing paper. The reason is I can't draw that accurately  and need to have the repeating tessellation copied many times so it requires a good amount of repetition of the base image which need to stay in proportion. The  final image of "Gorilla Business" is the figure below.

Gorilla Business