A decorated elephant

For the past week I’ve been working on quite a large and complicated panel, so until it’s finished and I can post it here, this is a design I did a while back for a friend who wanted a “decorated elephant” I found elephants surprisingly difficult to draw. They have thick and awkward parts which appear at first to be shapeless, but you have to get them just right or the animal looks totally wrong

A decorated elephant stitched out by Cherri Kincaid

There are tassels hanging from the blanket, and I suggested to Cherri that they might look good done in metallic thread. Unfortunately I was wrong and the tassels just seem to fade into the background. A bright yellow might have been better

Comments

[a sprague]

wonderful -- quite dapper fella, nice rounded shapes and colorful contrast to all that grey bulk!