March 24th is “Elephant Drawing Day” in Germany
March 24th is Draw Elephant Day! Yes, you heard that right!!!
Author, illustrator and cartoonist Bastian Melnyk invented today's motto (GERMAN)
Humor and satire - ELEPHANT. Today, Sunday, March 24th, is the day in Germany when anyone who wants to can pick up a pen and draw an elephant, because it is “Elephant Drawing Day”! The illustrator and cartoonist Bastian Melnyk created this curious holiday for creative people in 2009 based on his own idea. Elephants are many people's favorite animals. Elephants are proboscis animals, so you could start drawing with the trunk. You just have to be careful so that the rest of the largest living land animal on our planet also fits on the drawing sheet. With a real body height of 3.20 meters and a running speed of around 40 kilometers per hour, an encounter with this gray giant in the wild should not be underestimated - but here you are more likely to go to the zoo or zoo to see a drawing template. When it comes to the animal's ears, you then have to decide whether it should be an Indian elephant or an African elephant.
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| Elephant drawing from March 24, 2024, at 12 p.m. (first attempt as a one-minute drawing), by Helga Waess |
Then let’s get going: hand out the paper, get out the pencils and draw!
...as my old art teacher would say! ... And he invented the 1-minute drawing that preceded and ended every art lesson.
THE ELEPHANT as a model
Large ears are appropriate for the African elephant from the southern Sahara or the forest elephant from the tropical rainforests. The slightly smaller version represents the Asian elephant. The trunk, the tusks, the voluminous body and the pillar-like legs are probably unmistakable.
By the way, World Day for these gray giants
is on August 12th and is
celebrated internationally as “World Elephant Day”.
Books by the inventor of the "Elephant Drawing Day"by Bastian Melnykfrom the area of humor & satire
- unfortunately only available as a German language edition -
We have translated the titles and spines of the books here for our English-speaking readers:
- "Fred. Fürst Frederick fon Flatter's groovy fun"
Prince Frederick fon Flatter experiences new cuteness, puns and silliness every day: "If this were a book about bats, it would say that they flap around, sleep upside down and have a keen sense of hearing. But this is a book about Fred, who flutters around, philosophizes and loves the rain , who saves the world and eats cookies. Who sleeps upside down, sleeps lying down, sleeps sitting up and generally likes to sleep. And whose most pronounced sense is nonsense. This is no ordinary book. This is a Fredcomic book." (spine)
- "Encounters - 66 bizarre stories"
"What would it be like if you were walking through a park one day and came across a crying hippopotamus? Or a penguin right on your doorstep? Or even an old lady's bike?" (spine)
- "Thursday - A Toothbrush Novel"
"Thursday" - that is the adventurous and at the same time somewhat bizarre journey of a nameless protagonist through stinking steppes, deserts of adversity and all sorts of word games..." (spine)
