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Step 3

I completed the birds and added a remnant

of carcass below the left-hand vulture.

I then inserted the words with a 3B pencil,

guided by faint pencil lines drawn with a

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ruler. It’s a good idea to write all this out

on the rough image before doing the final

lettering to ensure it will all fit as well as

showing you how the final image will

appear. It’s also easy to omit a letter

here and there accidentally so keep

checking what you have written before

it’s too late.

Walrus Colony on Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard, watercolour on Waterford 300lb Hot-pressed paper, 9x15in. (23x38cm). Around 40 or so

bull walrus lay on the beach in various states of consciousness, with many more in the water when we turned up in a Zodiac. The walrus is

a fine fellow and one of the most accommodating models I have ever drawn, including most of the life-drawing sessions. My objective here

was to illustrate the interaction between the various beasts and bring out any individual characteristics, rather than relate a story as with

the polar bear (page 12). Again, I had more than enough material to fill a half-Imperial sheet of paper.

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tThe finished montage Nubian Vultures, watercolour on Waterford 200lb Hot-pressed paper, 9x12in. (23x30.5cm)

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