Step six of “Winston” ⁰

Feb 2, 2012 by Patrick Entenmann in Blog Tags: animal, dog, drawing, Drawing fur, Drawing hair, Graphite, graphite drawing, graphite pencil, Graphite portrait, pencil, pencil drawing, pencil portrait, pet, portrait, pug, realistic, shading

This is the completed portrait. I continued to shade in the shadows of the hair on his neck. I thought about continuing further down his neck and perhaps a little more of his body, but I chose to let the fur fade into the white of the paper. I think sometime in the future I will have to try a portrait of him in watercolor or charcoal to loosen me up a little. I sometimes get too caught up in the detail when I work in graphite, but overall I am fairly pleased with how this drawing turned out. I finished with a coat of UV resistant matte final fixative. Onto the next project…