Because the perspective is of the drawing is from a low point of view, the legs all appear approximately the same length, with the far-side legs appearing only slightly shorter. The two nearside legs were added in step 2, and the two legs added here are thus on the opposite side of the elephant (the ‘far-side’). Unlike most other animals, the legs of an elephant are pretty straightforward to draw.

The feet are also very important – the front feet look a bit like mushrooms and are pretty symmetrical whereas the rear feet are only hooked in the front. Also, do not fall into the trap of just drawing long stumps for legs – see how the rear legs are quite curved, especially as they join with the main body, and how the front legs are much wider at their tops and have relatively thin ankles. The legs are quite simple to draw and will be explained in the next step, but just take note here that the front nearside leg is drawn about 1/3 of the way along the elephant’s length. The green arrow shows how the front of the face curves slightly forward as it blends with the trunk, and the orange arrow shows the tight curve the back of the trunk makes as it joins with the bottom of the elephant’s face. It has a very wide base (see where it connects to the ‘potato’ shape) and extends to the ground. The elephant’s trunk is obviously the dominant feature of its face.

The green arrow shows how the front of the face curves slightly forward as it b lends with the trunk, and the orange arrow shows the tight curve the back of the trunk makes as it joins with the bottom of the elephant’s face.

Outline elephants