elephant update

I scrapped the color version for just black and white so I could focus on painting with a good value range. I might add color later, but as of now I'm happy with the practice I got working on this. This is actually based on a giant stuffed elephant that I had when I was a little kid.

elephant painting

I seem to have gotten very out of practice with painting in photoshop and am trying to remedy this problem. I decided that I didn't want to do flat colors like I usually do, so if anyone has advice I'd love to hear it. Below is the painting in progress. It's in color, but the only jpgs I made were in black and white so you'll have to just imagine the colors. I'll try and keep you updated.