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    Drawing Elephants

    Mar 22, 2019 2 minutes
    By Janina Jackson

    STEP ONE

    chose several different reference photographs of elephants from the Internet, books and newspapers, and practiced several small sketches of elephant compositions. When content, I graphed up a piece of tracing paper using 1cm squares and placed this over the final draft composition. I enlarged the composition (three times larger than the draft) and graphed up the Fabriano paper

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