Haraka

Translated as haste or speed in Kiswahili, this is an image of three elephants moving hastely through the dust of a dry river bed, whilst in pursuit of the main breeding herd that had crossed earlier.

It has been sketched in the medium of Pastels on a grey PastelMat paper whilst using a series of
photographs courtesy of wildlife photographer Manfred Suter.

Below are a sequence of images showing how I sketched the above elephants

I started by lightly sketching in the three elephants

I then started working in a layer of background dust from right to left

I worked on the back elephant then moved onto the darker shadowed rear of the calf

Here I'm working at the smaller easel 2 on the lower part of the baby elephant

I added a hint of blue to the upper layer of the image, then moved back to the baby elephant

Now I started to work on the leading elephant as I moved from left to right

I'm at my easel working on some minor highlights on the baby elephants trunk

I've next filled in the front elephant's leading leg before moving onto her head

Beautifully scanned and framed by Framers Gallery