Day 2 in my month of elephant drawings. I wouldn’t want to run into this guy in a dark alley. But then, I wouldn’t really want to run into any elephant in an alley no matter how well-lit the alley or how congenial the elephant.

So why am I drawing elephants? My lovely wife gave me a copy of The Art of Richard Thompson for Christmas, and I’ve been pouring through the pages– absolutely brilliant illustrations and comics. I discovered that Richard Thompson loved to draw elephants– he drew thousands of them and even began every sketch book with a drawing of one. I wanted a theme to draw all month, so I figured if an award-winning genius like Richard Thompson found enough to draw thousands of elephants, I should be able to come up with 20 or so.