Elephant Mother and Calf - Commission

The latest project was a commissioned piece was some good fiends of mine. The recipient is an elephant lover who asked for a piece of a mother and calf with the main colors of blue and grey. This was a project that was a combination of stippling and shadow techniques. The light blue color is the base of the shadow portions of the elephants. Grey was added using the stippling or pointillism technique in the darker portions of the elephants to add depth and contrast. 

This was a lot of fun to make because it was more of a "play as you go" sort of piece, wherein I was letting the dots materialize as I went. It's always easier in the pointillism technique to start with a little and add more as you go. If I add too much too early, then you can't go backwards, you can only go forwards. My original intentions were to add grey over most of the blue portions of the elephants, but as the piece came together it made sense to only add grey dots to the darkest portions, that way the blue portions would still shine and have duel colors and not just two colors combined.