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Baby Elephant(title unconfirmed) is a new folklore book I’m currently making. Its a story about a baby elephant’s adventure to travel troughout the Malaysian forest, finding a sanctuary for animals. This is a step-by-step record on how I paint the illustration. This is for the page 56 and 57, where the baby elephant and fellow monkey meet with a group of bears, and together they perform a ‘dikir barat’ to celebrate flower season. Notice how some of them are injured after a great honey hunt.

So here’s step 1, this a sketching of how the layout of the page will be. This is where the whole book’s worth of planning is. This is made with pen on my free time. After some alteration, I choose this layout, scene, and camera angle. This is step 1, not a preparation or planning. This is just as important as the other steps and should be treated as such.

Painting Info:

• Paiting Name: Cotton Pygmy Goose 3
• Painting Number: 169
• Steps: 1 out of 8

About This Species:

• The Cotton Pygmy Goose or the Cotton Teal, Nettapus coromandelianus is a small perching duck which breeds in India, Pakistan, southeast Asia and south to northern Australia. It is locally known as Girri, Girria, Girja (Hindi); Gurgura (Etawah); Bali hans (Bengal); Bhullia hans (Bangladesh); Dandana (Orissa); Ade, Atla (Ratnagiri); Naher, Keeke, Chuwa (Nowgong, Assam); Baher, Kararhi (Sind, Pakistan). [Wiki]
• The Cotton Pygmy-goose is a small surface-feeding duck with a goose-like bill. The male has a white head, neck and underparts, dark glossy green upperparts and a narrow dark breast band. Females are duskier and have a dark stripe through the eye and a white eyebrow. [Australian Govt Threatened Species]