Anthropomorphic Elephant

Jim asked Sandy about the above drawing

Sandy:

This is one of the rare occasions when I inked someone else's pencils. Fortunately, I was working over a blue line reproduction of the art which meant that I wouldn't be ruining the original drawing if I blew the inks.

The pencils were by Linda Medley, well know creator of the award-winning Castle Waiting graphic novels. Turns out that both of us had played around with anthropomorphic elephant characters somewhere along the line, though the results were vastly different.

​Hers (in my opinion) was full of pathos and mine...not so much. In any case this drawing was the result of our collaboration.

Another image from Sandy's archive:

A panel from a comic strip invented for my sketchbooks called "Jungleland." The elephant in question never did receive a name.