When I was but a wee child, everyone in our family used to refer to elephants as ‘nellies’. It was all something to do with the old rock song, Nellie the Elephant, apparently.

This, however, is no Nellie; this is an exquisite china elephant that we bought sometime early in 2008. According to my sketchbook, I drew this on August 26th. Always a good idea to jot down the date on the page margin, I believe. That way, you can see how your drawing skills have progressed (and, with luck and practice, improved) over time.

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Drawn around the same date, this dumper truck was a fun thing we bought a few years ago. I like dumper trucks, their bright yellow colour and their chug-chug-chugging engines. We were in our local branch of Tradex and saw some dumpers in the toy section. I kept mithering on about them until Shana finally agreed to buy me one. You see? Pester-power still works, even when you reach your senior years!