Sketching an elephant

Starting to apply charcoal on the trunk now and blending it in with my little finger. I generally start to draw from left to right because I'm left handed naturally, if I had started working from right to left I wouldn't be able to rest my hand on the paper without smudging the drawing.

Here darks have been put in and I then lift this dark charcoal what I have just put down and use it for middle tones like in the ear and down the side of the face. The tusks have been laid in and notice that the far tusk has been put in rather sketchily as this is further back than the other one which is more forward so needs to be brought out more with dark line.

Here I use a charcoal pencil to show the form of the head and here we are talking about line, can you see that the line isn't a continuous line but in different degrees of light and dark, this gives variety of line and shows the subject more in a three dimensional way.

More wrinkles are added but I don't put all the wrinkles in, just the important ones that show the elephants form.

I show the creases of the trunk and notice that these lines follow the curvature of the trunk.
 

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