Elephant Portrait

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Thomas Fuller

Well, I've finally gotten all the major lines drawn in and an indication of where most of the shadowing is going to go. Now it's just a matter of spending lots of time getting the right amount of blending done and the right amount of shading. To get a good feel for the all the wrinkles I'm also going to have to go back and pay close attention to each line ~ they need to be very dark in some places to indicate depth and much lighter, almost invisible, in other places to indicate just slight indentations in the surface of the elephant's face. Lots of fine tuning to be done!