Video showing stages in making the coloured pencil drawing of a Langur monkey and young a number of which I saw in India.

One of the initial sketchbook studies used to draw the Langur Monkey.

Langur Monkey facts

• Langur monkeys are Old World monkeys native to the Indian sub-continent. According to National Geographic they are trained in New Delhi to scare off aggressive rhesus monkeys and other wild animals that might roam into public spaces and cause mischief. They are highly valued. Hindus revere them as a symbol of the monkey deity Hanuman – the Langurs’ black faces and extremities are said to call to mind the burns that Hanuman suffered in the course of his heroism.
• Grey Langurs are herbivorous, feeding on a wide range of plants from leaves, fruit, shoots, roots, grass, bamboo, ferns, coniferous needles and cones, mosses and lichen. They also develop mutualistic relationships with ground-dwelling herbivores such as cattle and deer, who can feed underneath groups of foraging langurs to eat food dropped or dislodged by the monkeys.