I have an intention to do some art every day. It never really works out that way... L but I try. One approach is to have a sheet prepared and waiting with an outline of a subject on it. Then I can spend an hour, or a few minutes, with pencil and putty rubber developing the image. I did this with some of the locomotive drawings I mention in previous posts. I thought that living in Africa made wildlife a logical subject. I have hundreds of photographs to draw on (Excuse the pun).
This work is intended
to be a bit of a departure from the – what I see as traditional – view of an
Elephant with big tusks, facing the viewer, with dust and so on around its
legs. I decided to focus on the face alone, and so I have merely suggested the
forelegs and left everything else out. See what you think.
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| Portrait of an Elephant in Addo NP |
The drawing is on A3
paper. I used a set of Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils and 200 gsm drawing
paper. To date these are the best pencils I have worked with for drawings of
this kind.
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