Owen and Mzee

For the Christmas of 2010, my friends and I agreed on doing a White Elephant. The twist is we had to bring in something "homemade"
Nothing can be bought unless you're using it to make something. No baked goods either.

Anyways, my white elephant was an art project based the true story of a friendship between a baby hippo and a giant tortoise.
A giant tortoise (Mzee) adopts a baby hippo (Owen) who got separated from his herd in a tsunami.

More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_and_Mzee
Official website here: http://www.owenandmzee.com/omweb/
You can see the photos that I used as references here: http://www.yoursbicoach.com/hippo-story.html, http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandalou/2793660050/

Done with Micron & 10% Prisma grayscale marker on white drawing paper

Owen & Mzee (c) themselves