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| 3/11/24 |
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| 3/10/24 Tulip (both reference photos by Sandie Frakes) |
Although I’m taking a break from pet portraits for a while,
I had promised two to a donor who had been looking for good reference photos of
her pooch Tulip. The first one she sent wasn’t very well lighted, but it seemed
like a good candidate for messy hatching (left), which matched Tulip’s messy beard. I
had a lot of fun drawing that fur.
The second photo that she sent later was worth waiting for:
It was among the best pet reference photos I had used in that it was taken next
to a window, casting beautiful light on one side of Tulip’s face. Most of the
drawing was done with colored pencils, but I had made an underpainting with Viarco ArtGraf water-soluble graphite on the shaded side. It helped the pencil
work to go faster, and it also served as a map so that I wouldn’t inadvertently
color too much of the areas I wanted to reserve as the lightest.
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| Polychromos colored pencils and black, brown and gray technical pens in various sizes |
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| ArtGraf water-soluble graphite underpainting |
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Polychromos and Museum Aquarelle colored pencils and
Uni Pin technical pen |
These both are great! I even like the underpainting by itself.
ReplyDeleteI like the underpainting, too... a bit ghostly, but Tulip is there. :-)
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