09-12-2025, 04:59 AM
Navaali
Great to see you taking interest in the forum and looks like you are off to a great start. All good on the previous challenge and I'm glad you understand. Keep in mind there is never anything wasted because everything you do makes you that much better, so the miles you put in the closer you'll get to where you want to be as an artist. It's great that you have already explored drawing elephants in the past and this should make things a bit easier and ultimately more enjoyable for this challenge.
Your first sketches are looking good. Exploring different poses should definitely be first thing on the agenda, and making sure that the characters silhouette reads well visually. From there the sky is the limit with how you want to further design and adorn your character. Very good observation on the elephant head being exceptionally larger, but also keep in mind a big part of that illusion is the over sized ears. If you look past the elephants ears and focus on just the head and body, you'll see the head is actually in relative proportion with the body. Typically, making a characters head smaller can make their body and overall figure look bulkier and menacing; Marvel Comics did this with their Kingpin and Hulk characters throughout the years. Definitely dare to experiment to see what deems you the best result and every king needs a third leg, lol. (Was a random image from online that is most likely AI.)
The front pose in your sketches is looking very nice. That might be something to push further.
Great to see you taking interest in the forum and looks like you are off to a great start. All good on the previous challenge and I'm glad you understand. Keep in mind there is never anything wasted because everything you do makes you that much better, so the miles you put in the closer you'll get to where you want to be as an artist. It's great that you have already explored drawing elephants in the past and this should make things a bit easier and ultimately more enjoyable for this challenge.
Your first sketches are looking good. Exploring different poses should definitely be first thing on the agenda, and making sure that the characters silhouette reads well visually. From there the sky is the limit with how you want to further design and adorn your character. Very good observation on the elephant head being exceptionally larger, but also keep in mind a big part of that illusion is the over sized ears. If you look past the elephants ears and focus on just the head and body, you'll see the head is actually in relative proportion with the body. Typically, making a characters head smaller can make their body and overall figure look bulkier and menacing; Marvel Comics did this with their Kingpin and Hulk characters throughout the years. Definitely dare to experiment to see what deems you the best result and every king needs a third leg, lol. (Was a random image from online that is most likely AI.)
The front pose in your sketches is looking very nice. That might be something to push further.
LEGEND'S SKETCHBOOK_001
To all artists struggling to create and are intimidated by A.I. (anti-imagination)
"Everything has been done, but not by you"
To all artists struggling to create and are intimidated by A.I. (anti-imagination)
"Everything has been done, but not by you"