Elephant Freehand Sketch

Elephants (Elephantidae) are a family from the order of proboscideans. The family represents the largest currently living land animals and also includes the only representatives of the order group still living today. Three recent species are distinguished: the African elephant, which inhabits the largely open landscapes of sub-Saharan Africa; the forest elephant, also native to Africa but largely restricted to tropical rainforests; and the Asian elephant, found in southern and southeastern Asia, which uses a variety of landscapes. All elephants are distinguished by their trunk, a muscular organ formed by the fusion of the nose with the upper lip, and by their tusks formed from the upper incisors. Other striking features are found in the massive physique with columnar legs and the gray, sparsely hairy skin.

A sketch is a quickly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended to be a finished work. A sketch can serve several purposes: It can capture something the artist sees, it can capture or develop an idea for later use, or it can serve as a quick way to graphically represent an image, idea, or principle. Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most commonly used for graphic work done in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal, or pastel. It can also refer to drawings executed with pen and ink, digital input media such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker, watercolor, and oil paint. The latter two are commonly referred to as "watercolor sketches" and "oil sketches." A sculptor may model three-dimensional sketches in clay, plasticine, or wax.