I’m A Professional, Don’t try this at Home
Actually do try it! If you have any artistic talent at all, a Wacom Graphics Tablet and a layered art or retouching program like Photoshop can make you better quicker than drawing with pencil and paper.
It’s a matter of what you’re after, but I use Photoshop because I like the setup, I like the tool selection, and mostly because it’s what I had to learn on. The Wacom Graphics Tablet is an unbelievably wonderful bit of technology. The tablet is pressure-sensitive and the feel of the stylus on it is very much like the feel of a felt-pen on vellum.
I was worried at first, but it took me all of about 10 minutes to get used to drawing on the Tablet while looking at the computer screen. It’s so much a part of the way I work now; I actually have more problems looking at the paper when I use a pencil.
About 3 weeks ago I said I wanted to have as my first real Olduvai post a mini-mural of Proboscideans in America. Because of problems with Tito, lack of sleep, and a sudden influx of “paying” jobs, I’m more than a bit late. Sorry about that. But I am working on it and I’d thought you might be interested in seeing just how I’m going to create the animals for the “mini-mural” post. There will be 7 species portrayed and more than 1 individual of most of them.
Welcome to my world. I’m lucky this time, because I’ve drawn so many mammoths over the past 15 years that their proportions are burned into my brain. Most have been the late Pleistocene Mammuthus columbi/jeffersoni, (We’ll get into the actual taxonomy later) from the population of the northern plains represented at the Mammoth Site at Hot Springs, South Dakota (dated 26,000 years BP). Strange as it may sound, I know some of the animals there as individuals, complete with photos of skulls and charts of bone length and mass and tusk diameter.
Setting up the Photoshop Screen
Working for the computer I don’t need to be as detailed as I am for publication, but I still like to work large enough so that I can get a decent image from my home printer. For the proboscideans post I decided to work on a panel 6 inches high at 300dpi. That will give me great prints, and at the same time have more than enough detail to fill a computer screen. The “mini-mural” will be as long as it turns out to be in order to give everything room. On screen it will be about 8.5 inches high and, by the time I’m done, about 40 inches wide. While the scene will be continuous, each species will be highlighted in an area easily within a single screen viewing.
I NEVER draw on the background, but keep it white or a neutral gray. Open layer 1 and start as you would with a pencil or marker. Here’s my layer 1.
You can’t see the tiny dots, but I measured approximate bone length and proportions. Sometimes I think I don’t really draw well at all, I just edit well. This is going to be a fairly static pose, so I immediately open layer 2 and start refining. I’m using the airbrush tool at a fairly large size (20 pixels or so). Notice that I’ve gone back to layer 1 and moved the opacity bar to about 20% so the new lines don’t get mixed up with the old ones. Here’s my layer 2.
Layers 3 and 4 are more refining. 3 the work is primarily on the head, and 4 the legs. Notice I’ve moved the trunk and flexed the left front leg. Elephants give the impression of being loose-jointed and yet when the weight is being borne by the leg it’s locked into a column.
With layer 4 I was satisfied enough to start the coloring process. Layer 5 is opened UNDER layer 4 and a flat (slightly brownish) gray is used as fill. On layer 4 the black lines are made about 60% transparent and merged down on layer 5.
It’s may sound funny, but from here on the work is as much tenacity as talent. Paint wrinkles, adjust, merge down. Paint wrinkles, adjust, paint shadows (on a layer above the main image, never use black, but very dark blues thru reds), adjust, merge down. Paint wrinkles, adjust, paint shadows, merge down (always doing the “new” work on a new layer). If at any point something starts looking strange you can always undo everything back to last time you hit “save”. Sometimes I’ll do as little as a half dozen lines on a layer before I merge it. The trick is to know when to save. Another way to experiment is after saving, duplicate the entire piece as an alternate. Change the contrast or color pallet. Photoshop gives you a hundred ways to experiment with your art.
Layers 6 and 7 show the beginning detail of the head. I always work on the head first, because I don’t want to waste too much time on anything else if I can’t get that right.
Because of the scale here I don’t have to worry about the eye too much, but in any smaller creature or in a close-up of the elephant’s head with its 4 inch eye-lashes, another great feature of digital art comes into play. I don’t have to wear a magnifier or more powerful glasses and paint with a one bristle brush. Ctrl/Alt + and I can get close enough to work on individual pixels. My old eyes love it!
Layer 8 shows the work on the other end. The four little buttons of color are my highlight pallet and touching one with the cursor as you hit Alt immediately gives you that color to work with. In the good old days I’d be gone to the sink for the fourth time by now to get clean water.
In layer 9 I’ve traced the outlines of the far side limbs on to a new superimposed layer, and begin working on those limbs on yet another layer below the main image. Yes, I can draw and paint behind the main image, that’s the reason you never want to work on the “background” of your Photoshop “canvas”.
On layer 10 I’m getting close. In about an hour I can cover this Columbian Mammoth with sparse but noticeable hair. Throughout the entire process, I’ve experimented, I’ve molded, I’ve moved and resized. The lasso tool and the blending tool are my particular friends. So here we are about 7 hours after beginning. At this point I don’t want to do anything more until all the animals are done and integrated into the landscape background. I’ll be changing things until the very moment the mini-mural is posted.
And oh yeah, I can flip this guy too. In fact, I’ve flipped him horizontally a dozen times during the process. It gives you a whole new look at things you might have missed.
When the mural is up (and yes, I’ve learned not to open my mouth only to insert my foot) we’ll talk about mammoth hair and tusk curves and I’ll answer any questions about why I portrayed something the way I did. I hope I haven’t bored too many of you that don’t know Photoshop, but if enough people like this post, I’m thinking about putting up a how-it-was-done on the painting of the background too. Think clone tool!
December 27th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
Very cool, thanks for taking the time to post this!
Question: When you say you “have more problems looking at the paper when I use a pencil”, is that in comparison to the tablet, or something that changed after you started using the tablet more than ‘traditional’ media?
December 27th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
Suz: I should have stated that more clearly. It’s more comfortable for me now to draw with the tablet while watching the screen than it is for me to draw with a pencil. It’s weird, but I’ve really trained myself away from pencils and pens. I still enjoy traditional painting, but the preliminary work is all done on the computer now. Looking one place while drawing another only took me 10 minutes to get used to.
December 27th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Wow, that’s amazing! Thanks for the behind-the-scenes look at home to draw an elephant. You’re right, there are a lot of hair and wrinkles to worry about when drawing elephants. I think the final product is going to be spectacular. Is there any chance of ordering it on a poster or something? I would love to fill up the walls of my room with your artwork.
December 27th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
CydeWeys: I’m working on it. If it’s what I suspect right now, the Pleistocene Probos poster would be about 10 x 40 inches with a continuing background of changing habitats.
December 27th, 2005 at 10:45 pm
Budding Artist?
If you haven’t recently (or ever) visited Olduvai George, you should wander over there now. Especially if you are interested in a Photoshop art lesson from a true master. His latest post explains how he develops his great paintings. Man,
December 27th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
I personally love any and all photoshop tutorials, so a quick thing on how you do the back ground would be much appreciated, at least from one person.
December 27th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Wow Carl….you may have just made a sale on a new graphics tablet! Honestly, this gives me some inspiration to try some things in my “free” time. Please , please continue with the background information too!!!!
Steve E.
December 28th, 2005 at 1:28 am
I have a new Wacom and love it, not only for using in Photoshop, but for everyday use on the computer. I don’t paint animals but have found the tablet the easiest way for me to do portraits. Thanks for sharing your tutorial and it was amazing to see a mamoth appear with such detail. I imagine it is because I am surrounded by talk of mamoths and mastadons at work that I found it even more interesting.
December 28th, 2005 at 9:41 am
Hey, if you’re willing to give away the trade secrets, I will gladly devour any Photoshop pointers you write about!
December 28th, 2005 at 10:13 am
I don’t know squat about Photoshop, but I found this post quite interesting nonetheless! I’d love to see more posts showing how you work.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:37 am
[...] Then this post is for you. Olduvai George, one of the blogs that I read, has detailed the process that he uses to paint. He uses Photoshop and a drawing tablet. He goes through the steps of creating a Mastodon. It’s amazing to watch the crude line drawings take shape into the finished work. [...]
December 28th, 2005 at 11:57 am
Amazing! I am even more impressed than before.
December 28th, 2005 at 11:58 am
I use Photoshop to touch up photos for light and contrast, but have lately started experimenting with filters and layers. I am not an artist, so transforming a photograph is about as close as I’ll ever get to producing something that almost looks painted. I appreciate your sharing how you create a new piece. It’s fantastic. Thanks for taking the time.
December 28th, 2005 at 11:59 am
This is so much fun! And I speak as a total outsider — I can kind-of draw a recognizable fish. Seeing the synthesis of all that knowledge coming together, flowing through your hand, is really gratifying.
December 28th, 2005 at 12:50 pm
This also raises the question, how do you feel about using the artwork you provide on your site? I am pretty sure I can make it my wallpaper, but you might be a bit annoyed if someone starts selling them. 8^)
You might want to post a disclaimer somewhere.
December 28th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Ah—thanks for this encouraging Wacom tablet accolade. I got one last year for Christmas (and was thrilled) but I found drawing from it a chore, so I’ve ended up using it mostly to touch up scanned-in art. Your post has got me considering another go–I mean, who can argue with your results?
December 28th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Oh, I thought those little spots were elephant droppings. 8^)
Do you ever use the clone tool, healing brush or patch tool?
December 28th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Chawunky: Give it another try. It may take a while for you to get used to it, but it’s worth it.
KeithB: Elephant droppings are never LITTLE spots! And yes, the clone tool especially. With the clone tool you can actually paint with a texture. The healing brush and the patch tool are more useful when dealing with photos which I don’t do, but I still use them occasionally.
December 28th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
MAMMOTH!!!
YIPPEE!!!!! %^D
December 29th, 2005 at 3:10 am
Your ‘how to’ posts are my favorite things to read and look at from you! I’d think that demonstrating the logical and technical steps taken to complete an image, while not detracting from the talent that went into it, would demystify some of the artistic process and help the non-art crowd better understand form, function, and graphic representation. Your ‘I just know how to edit well’ statement is right on the money, perhaps with the addition of being able to ’see’ the big picture well also. I personally believe that the REAL art in anything is what goes on inside one’s head, the ‘eureka!’ moment when all the pieces fall into place. I hope you’re able to impart some of that magic to your other readers through posts like this.
The layering technique you use with Photoshop is pretty much exactly what goes on in my head while I’m drawing on paper. I think I got it from looking through encyclopedias and medical textbooks when I was a kid and playing with the anatomical diagrams that were printed on clear plastic sheets, the different body systems layering one on top of the other.
You had me sold on the WACOM tablet before, but doubly so now. I’m curious…what size tablet do you have?
December 29th, 2005 at 9:24 am
Shannon: Wacom “Intuos” tablets come in three sizes, 4×5, 6×8, and 9×12. I’ve got the 6×8. It sounds small, but there’s plenty of room for me. I’ve always worked tightly, it’s truly a wonder I need only “reading” glasses. For the first 15 years of my illustration career I did only pencil and pen and ink work.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:31 am
Never forget the foolproof way to draw an elephant in photoshop:
1. Take any drawing
2. Remove all layers that don’t look like an elephant
December 30th, 2005 at 10:16 am
This was a great post. Thanks for the info!
December 30th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Nothing beats ballpoint pen on a cocktail napkin for free drinks.
Seriously, my clever wife loves graphics programs and we have several. My number one sister teaches drafting and uses the most bleeding edge CAD tools. But I’m still stuck on pen and paper. The last major technological change for me was going from steel pen to rapidograph. This is inspiring me to pick up some new tools (since I’m a technical writer, I can add it to my resume, too).
December 30th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
… and Voila! — Columbian Mammoth! Amazing! If only…
Keep up the amazing work. There IS enough interest on a background info post. Wow!
December 31st, 2005 at 8:48 am
I’m enjoying the ‘how-to-do-it’ posts. I’m using an old Wacom 1212 with a graphics program that’s an orphan now, but eventually I guess I’ll have to migrate….
Some thoughts for readers you may wish to comment on:
1) monitor size is important, happily, large monitors are now very cheap.
2) large images can use LOTS of data, but again, in this age of wonders, who doesn’t have a huge RAM and a superfast CPU?
3) in the ‘bad old days’ some vector graphics programs quarreled with other apps. I usually don’t run any other app when I am using a graphic program.
Even though I started back when it was a lot more expensive to work with images, the money I’ve saved by using a computer instead of buying paper and pens has probably paid for the machinery (I hope).
And never forget the first rule of computing- save early, save often. And enjoy.
December 31st, 2005 at 11:23 am
S Catowner: I really should have mentioned the points you brought up. Some of the images I’ve done are over 150M (when flattened…much more with layers) and is does require a lot of RAM and speed. I’m lucky in that I have two computers, one, has Gigabytes of RAM and is loaded only with Photoshop. It’s not connected to the Internet and is used only for illustration; but then it is my work, so I have to have it. Everything you see here has been transferred by disc to the Internet computer. Most people however, aren’t going to do the type of work I do and can get by with a lot less. The Wacom tablet itself doesn’t take up much room and for my sketches and non-background work my old computer worked fine.
My monitors are 19 inch, beautiful and bright Samsungs.
As far as running other programs while working, I just don’t. It’s on the other computer.
AND…I have a big sign attached to the side of my monitor that says SAVE! SAVE! SAVE!
December 31st, 2005 at 9:23 pm
Marvelous. I still can’t figure out how you managed to get from the first image to the last one. I would deal with the devil to be able to do what you do.
January 1st, 2006 at 4:01 am
ahhh bliss to see the work of a master. thank you very much for the tutorial and keep ‘em coming while i save up for that damn tablet!!
January 1st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Hey Pop!
Happy New Year!!!
Your son…
Bryce
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:34 pm
I’ve been thinking about getting a Wacom tablet, although I’ve never seen one in use and don’t know anyone who has one, so I really didn’t understand how it works. Your fabulous detailed explanation is better even than anything I found on their own website, and so very interesting about how you create your drawings. This post was a lovely gift, and I’m looking forward to seeing more about the creation of the mural. Thank you!
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Jeez. Louise! I’m mind blown, Carl. I’ve been working with Photoshop for years now and I still can’t imagine doing what you did with this mammoth painting. I really look forward to the final poster you produce - and to all the posts that lead up to it. God…I’m truly in awe of your use of the program, particularly in regards to your airbrush tool control and mastery of layers.
For my part, I’m still a pencil/paper guy. I use the drawing tablet for rough compositional studies or for stealing a color from a photograph and working with it in a new piece, but I have never made something from start to finish - excepting the most abstract of cartoons, in the traditional sense of the word.
You, as the kid’s like to say, are Da Bomb.
Happy New Year!
January 3rd, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Carl, I think its great your turning everyone into mammoth lovers! Where may I purchase one of your prints?
January 4th, 2006 at 7:42 am
Speaking for those who don’t know Photoshop, I find your how-to fascinating and lucid. Some of the jargon and probably some of the finer points are lost on me, but I’m eagerly awaiting further mural updates. Thanks!
January 4th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
I can’t draw, but now I’m definitely going to buy a Wacom tablet.
January 7th, 2006 at 10:16 am
oh my…I’m actually a digital scrapper but someone from 2peas sent us over here re: wacom tablet and I’m amazed!!! I just purchased a Wacom Intuit 3 and can’t even doodle a flower yet (mind block i guess). You, of course, are talented beyond belief and obviously were before you aquired your tablet. Wonderful work!
January 7th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Wow! I just found your site via a digital scrapbook forum (if you can believe that). You are amazingly talented. I love your work and am so appreciative of the tutorial. I’ve done a little biological illustration in the past (mostly colored pencil) and am excited to try the tablet. Which tablet do you use?
January 7th, 2006 at 11:21 am
OMG, can I just say, you’re my new hero! I can’t believe you did this on a Wacom Tablet!?!?! Truly amazing!!! I’m glad someone pointed this site out! Do you mind if I add you onto my blog?
Thanks and have a great weekend!
January 7th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Disregard my question earlier… I found the answer in a reply you posted to someone else. Intuos 6×8… that is actually the one I had wanted and now your site has proven to me that I NEED it.
January 18th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Absolutely amazing recreation of this extinct species! Personally the Proboscideans are my absolute favorite of all the mammalian groups…….and I also use photoshop so the two here are a perfect mix….
Will be checking back often so do keep posting!
January 19th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Woooow! I have no words… I just can reach to say: Congratulations ! :O
January 19th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Carl: I’m glad your site went posted on Drawn!. I was a fan of prehistoric mammals more than of dinos from childhood. After all they are close to present day ones (although in mounstrous proportions) and… they do lived side by side with our ancestors! (some of them).
I work as a newspaper caricaturist and illustrator and I make use of Wacom (a 4×5 Intuos 3) together with Painter software. It took me 10 minutes to be comfortable too but, as I have a poor equipment, I still sketch on paper most of the times.
Your work is as outstanding as your sense of humor is. My best to you from down South Buenos Aires.
January 19th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Thanks a lot for the insight. It’s alway fascinating to see how artists go from a blank piece of paper to beautifully detailed illustrations.
Keep it comming!
January 19th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Did anyone mention you’ve been Boing-Boinged? You have.
Great work. Where’s the background you and others talk about?
January 19th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
What a wonderful tutorial! Thank you so much for sharing your valuable time with us. My kids and I will continue to follow your blog with anticipation. My five year old son has already insisted that we travel to the larger library to find more books on prehistoric life that include your illustrations.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:57 am
please post a how-to for the background! very impressive work!
January 20th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for the post. I recieved a small wacom tablet (4″X7″) and habe been somewhat intimidated to use is. Your post was a great giude, and I have been more willing to experiment with photoshop as a drawing tool. Yoor post has made me more excited to use the tablet. Thanks!
January 20th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Thank you for the excellent tutorial. While I have a Wacom tablet, and use it for more traditional Photoshop stuff, I’ve never tried in earnest to use it to create complete, original artworks in Photoshop. This was really inspiring! I was trained as a science illustrator, although I’ve strayed from the path over the years. I’ve been motivated to do some more work! Thank you!
January 20th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
I think the only way I could truly understand your technique would be if you recorded your monitor while you were working. There are so many tiny, important calculations made when using a graphics program like this. Just knowing the exact zoom setting you’re at when you draw a line and/or how often you zoom in and out, would be important for me to understand how you complete these drawings. How do you actually go about editing your individual lines before they are committed? It looks like you soften lines up with filters too, right? I’m not completely understanding how you got to the final image and am very interested in finding out. :- I
January 21st, 2006 at 3:52 am
WOW, I have a Genesh sculpt that I would have loved to see this for reference. Brilliant!
January 21st, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Here via Boing Boing, awesome stuff, that mammoth Photoshop how to was fantastic.
Mik
January 21st, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Carl; It has been a few years since you helped me with a couple of sketches of a black vulture for a belt buckle that I was working on in Mammoth Lakes. Thank you again for that, and now thank you for my first trip in the blog world. I am working in 3d with the help of art cam software and a wacom tablet (graphire) now I will have to upgrade. Thanks again for letting me be a part of your creation lessons.
A truly grateful acquaintance.
Sandy
January 22nd, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Get ready for the Koufaxes
The Koufax Award nominations are beginning to trickle out. The first ones up are the nominations for Best New Blog of 2005, and oh my, but there is a long, long list. You don’t get to vote yet, though—they are…
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:22 am
I’m now officially your new fan !
Thanks for taking time to explain your creative process !
January 23rd, 2006 at 5:31 am
Wow, that was amazing: Great artwork, great tutorial. I would really, really appreciate further posts like this!
January 25th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Whither thou Olduvai? I’m starting to develop Proboscidean withdrawal symptoms.
January 30th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
You said that right and clean, that’s why I like your posts.
January 31st, 2006 at 6:31 pm
It’s the sketching that gives us amateurs hope! A hatful of your preliminary sketches teaches more than I can say. May we have some more?
Thanks for your generous instruction.
Bob
February 10th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Wow, you’ve got some amazing tablet skills! I have a Wacom A6-tablet myself and I dare to say I can draw not bad with pencil, but I can’t come up with this level of images on the computer.
February 11th, 2006 at 7:21 am
[...] Two days ago I stumbled on the blog of an amazing graphic tablet artist: Olduvaigeorge, who gives us a look “behind the scenes” of making these highly detailed illustrations of (prehistorical) animals. If you’re thinking of using a graphic tablet yourself, you should really check his working process, and realise the only tools he uses are Photoshop and a small Wacom tablet. [...]
February 11th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Boring?? It was fascinating. I’m not terribly artistic myself, but have always had the desire and interest. Do more, do more.
February 11th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Ach, I never thought of putting a palette of needed colours on a separate layer. Duh! I’ve been more of a photo-retoucher than an illustrator, but this would have been handier than just picking the colours out of the picture.
BTW, what size tablet do you use?
February 14th, 2006 at 9:00 am
[...] He has apparently switched from traditional media (you’ll find some work in acrylic posted) to digital painting, working primarily in Photoshop. Here is his step-by-step walk through of his digital illustration of a mammoth, and a more abbreviated look at the drawings for a color image of a bird. [...]
February 16th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Fantastic stuff. I tripped in from Jeff Hebert’s blog. What a great find for me!
I think it would be pretty awesome to have an Photoshop action of some small project, and see the whole process rip though in a few minutes. It would make a great movie I think.
I think a good caption somewhere would be “Converting Traditional Art Skills and Techniques to Computer Based Workflow.”
February 17th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
When I saw the final picture I got this “AMAZZZZING!!!!!” feeling
February 18th, 2006 at 2:47 am
Drawing a digital australopithecine
Boredom on a friday night makes me embark on epic projects. Tonight, I decided to follow Olduvai George’s entertaining how-to on digital illustration. A bit of background though — I’ve drawn all throughout my life, and have taken a science illustrat…
February 21st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
I’m a little late viewing this—but very impressed none the less—-
Great techniques.
I own several Wacom tablets, but I have been hesitating using them for the more detailed projects—this exercise is quite inspiring.
Thanks George!
~Stefano Di Lollo
March 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Como dibujar un mamut
En la pagina de Jaime Wong vi un enlace http://jgwong.org/blog/?p=1557 que mencionaba a Olduvai George, que es un artista de la vida salvaje y criaturas prehistóricas y nos muestra en el enlace como dibujar a un mamut.
May 17th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
I’ve done a number of Photoshop illustrations, and I am thrilled with the new things I learned from your blog. Please do more “making of” tutorials!!!
January 16th, 2007 at 9:24 am
The open Laboratory…
I was delighted to discover that three of my favourite bloggers have made it into a new publication: The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006. Congratulations to: Olduvai George, Nuthatch, Aydin and the rest of the finalists….
January 30th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Carl,
I own a tablet and am starting to learn how to make the best use of it as I illustrate my first book. Your tutorial was very useful and well-done! I’m a bit intimidated yet with the handling of layers.. and your demonstration of steps has shed a lot of light into that.
Thank you!!!
I’ll be looking forward to more!!!
:o)
March 25th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Carl, a banner of American Proboscids sounds like an amazing idea, and it’s right up my alley of things that I’m highly interested in and things that i love studying on my own. However, you have studied these things for much longer than I… And I could learn a lot from this upcoming post… I know your working on a whales post as well, but I really would love to see this elephant post, as well as engage in some discussion about their appearances - I think your fans want the early whales post first but i still hope to see a post about proboscids!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
[...] 5. I’m A Professional, Don’t try this at Home [...]
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:25 am
I discovered this as I’m creating an activity booklet about Columbian mammoths for children. Would you mind if I use your most excellent progression to inspire kids to try their hand at drawing a mammoth? I would gratefully credit you. Thank you for considering this most helpful gift!
I’m on a tight deadline for this production- a prompt response would be most appreciated.