Episode 6 of the 100 Days Sketching Challenge covers objects beginning with the letter E — an elephant, an envelope, an egg, and the Earth. This themed set spans an animal, an object, food, and a planet, training a wide range of skills. Parikshet guides you through these E-themed sketches.

🖍️ What You Need

  • Pencil and eraser
  • Grey, blue, and green markers
  • Brown and white for the egg and envelope
  • Black pen for outlines

How to Draw an Elephant, Envelope, Egg & Earth

  1. Elephant — draw a large rounded body, a big head, two large fan-shaped ears, a long curving trunk, two tusks, and thick column legs. The trunk and big ears are the key features.
  2. Envelope — draw a rectangle, then add a triangular flap on top (drawn as a V meeting in the middle) and two diagonal lines from the top corners to the centre to show the folded flap.
  3. Egg — a simple oval, slightly more pointed at one end than the other. Add a little shading on one side to make it look three-dimensional, or draw it cracked with a chick peeking out.
  4. Earth — a circle with blue oceans and green-brown continents, plus white cloud swirls and a curved shadow for the 3D globe effect.
  5. Arrange the four on the page — fit all four E-objects on one sheet with a little space around each.
  6. Add details — the elephant's wrinkled skin and toenails, the envelope's stamp, the egg's smooth shine, the Earth's clouds.
  7. Outline and tidy — go over each with pen and erase the pencil guidelines.
  8. Colour — grey elephant, white/cream envelope, cream egg, blue-green Earth.
💡 Parikshet's Tip: A themed set like the E-objects trains completely different skills in one session — the elephant teaches large animal forms and the tricky trunk, the envelope teaches geometric folds, the egg teaches a perfect simple oval with shading, and the Earth teaches spheres. Four very different challenges, all starting with E!

🌟 Did You Know?

Elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, and they use their trunks — which have around 40,000 muscles — for breathing, smelling, drinking, grabbing food, and even greeting each other! By comparison, the human whole body has only about 600 muscles. An elephant's trunk is so sensitive and strong it can pick up a single blade of grass or lift heavy logs.

The Four E-Objects and Their Skills

  • Elephant — teaches large animal forms and the trunk
  • Envelope — teaches geometric shapes and folds
  • Egg — teaches the perfect oval and simple shading
  • Earth — teaches drawing a 3D sphere

🎯 Try This: Draw Your Own Letter Page

  1. Pick a letter — try the first letter of a friend's name.
  2. Find four different things starting with that letter: an animal, an object, a food, and a place or planet.
  3. Draw all four on one page.
  4. Build a whole alphabet sketchbook, one letter at a time!