Giraffes - batik pictures and painted welly

I saw giraffes on safari in South Africa recently; they are such graceful creatures and they made me smile. The challenge is - to create them in artwork! The welly is "in progress" (hopefully the finished result later!) but the batiks are finished and ready for framing. I tried very similar drawings, on white 100% cotton, but experimented with different dyes. The photos below show some of the stages.