Elephant drawing reference

I'm learning to draw elephants, so I found a bunch of pictures online and drew from them. Can you guess what my 4th year film will be about?

The first time I tried to draw an elephant, my drawing looked like a big grey blob with ears. I was frustrated because I couldn't get the shape right or figure out how to draw the trunk. But I didn't give up. Instead, I looked for simpler ways to break down the drawing into more manageable parts. I learned to start with basic shapes and slowly add details, like the ears and trunk. I realized that observing real elephants and other drawings helped me understand their form better. I practiced…

Here are just a few animal sketches in brush pen, that didn't make it to the final selection of drawings I made to help promote the 2011 Disney film "African Cats". These sketches were not made from real life. Instead I drew these poses looking at a TV monitor showing a very low res version of the film. I believe any artist studying wildlife needs to include film footage as a resource. You just don't always get interesting animal behavior from looking at a sleeping lion at the zoo. Don't get…

Great schools are made up of great teachers, and one of them is Gary Geraths , who teaches animal drawing at Otis College of Art and Desig...

In the warming Arctic of the near future, a mother polar bear and her two cubs struggle to survive. An all-ages comic. Updates Mondays.

100 posts, how times fly. It feels like I just started blogging, a sign that I am having fun, I guess. I want to clarify a couple of things...

cute little elephant sketches for practice

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