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In this blog article we want to show you how to paint and draw an elephant. But first we'll discuss some general tips for drawing and painting beautiful drawings or paintings.
Tips - Learning to draw
To master drawing and painting, it is important that you learn to look carefully. This is one of the most important qualities for creating beautiful drawings or paintings.
Study the environment you wantdepict, delve into the texture of surfaces and objects, understand the anatomy of living things. Once you have observed long enough and mastered the shapes, it will become a lot easier.
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Tip: Take photos to easily review the environment later when you start drawing or painting.
Tips for painting or drawing an elephant
Elephants are striking animals. Even novice artists will be able to put something elephantine on paper with their inexperience. A trunk, big ears, tusks,pillar legs - it only takes a few body parts. As an ambitious cartoonist you naturally want to achieve more than a caricature. So let's take a closer look at the elephant - on a large scale and in detail.
There are two types: The African elephant with the big ears (and also physically larger) and the Asian elephant with the small ears. We are going to focus on the African steppe elephant with the big ears. In addition to the characteristics already mentioned, it is notable for its small eyes, its thick, massive body, its high forehead and its non-erect head.
A good exercise to train your sense of proportion in this animal is to compare it anatomically with other animals.
You will immediately notice the remarkable shapes of the elephant when you compare its shapes to those of a tiger. Both animals are scaled to the same leg distance and the same back height. It is striking that elephant legs are considerably longer than tiger legs in relation to body length. The elephant's body structure is almost quadrangular. His lowered head is especially striking in the comparison of proportions.
Now you have arrived at creating the skin structure. Look at pictures,go to the zoo and draw the skin of an elephant with your chosen colours. For example, you can also look at our Paint by Numbers elephant to view fun motifs and examples.
