Elephants In Motion (And Humans)

What else was in my sketchbook? An evening with wildlife artist Susan Lees last September. She got us to watch a short video, on a loop, of moving elephants, and we had to select one or two to try and capture the motion of. I find such exercises quite hard to get in the flow of and I get frustrated how backwards my sketches suddenly seem to look (deconstructing my way of sketching is useful, of course!). However, the artist did have a good word to say about some and I did keep going, so not all lost! Looking back now, I can see that they're not that bad after all, and so here we go:

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And a few figures drawn at another evening... March, apparently. Ah, need to draw some more figures soon!

Posting again soon.