Here's one more finished illustration for the children's book Shanti. Working on this one, I felt like a medieval monk who's speciality is miniature painting. It's painted on an A4 paper and the size of the elephant is 2cm.
'Shanti' in progress
Some more nearly finished illustrations for the story of Shanti...
This last one still needs the most work. I have to fill in the details, like water -which I will draw with pencil-, a pattern in the green border and much more plants around the elephant. And -not to forget- wipe out the little smudges you see in the middle of the drawing. They happened when my baby Oskar did WHAAA, and I dropped my paint-brush ...