I agree totally with everyone's comments about the difficulty of rendering hair/fur, however on this one I learned that no or little hair and lots of wrinkles could be just as hard! It's funny how each dip and valley has a life of it's own. I told you I dealt with North American wildlife but I did this for another artist friend of mine as a sort of art exchange. It was 11x14 on 110 lbs drawing paper and took around 48.5 hours to complete. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Kevin

"Slow and steady wins the day !"
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The background serves its purpose in giving the elephant a "world" in which to live while at the same time emphasising the animal's sharpness and solidity and giving it a real presence.

Beautiful! If we had a big cheering smilie I'd use it!!

MIKE

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I'm going to go back and stare at it some more.....

"We must become the change we want to see" - Gandhi

Linda Weil
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I'd just like to send out a word or two of thanks to everyone here. Your positive feedback is very nice indeed. It's a good lifter of ones confidence to recieve such comments. To bad I didn't have more drawings completed. I could pull one out when a drawing is going badly and throw it onto this board to lift my spirits.
I'm glad Mike that you share my feelings on the background. It's sometimes nice just to hint on the location of where the subject might be. I find forcing the background out of focus forces the subject forward.
Sorry to tell you Collin and everyone else waiting to see more wildlife, being a pencil rookie i'm just about out of finishes pieces. I have one more wildlife piece to scan then it's over to J.D.Hillberrys board for some non wildlife portraits. I hope you will all stop over there as well to take a peek.

Thanks again, Kevin }>

Kevin

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"We must become the change we want to see" - Gandhi