DEMONSTRATIONSTEP ONE
For this drawing, I am using a
Clairefontaine pastel mat in Dark
Grey. It has a slight sanded texture to
it, but it doesn’t chew your pencils up
like some pastel mats can. Place your
drawing on the pastel mat paper using
a light colour. When using Black I use
a light hand and a pastel pencil, as I
can easily rub my lines out as I go.STEP TWO
I always begin with the eyes when
drawing animals. It is the key togreat portraits, capturing the warmth
and soul within the subject.
Using a White pencil, I
immediately draw the highlights
in the eye and work the colour
in around that, as this is the
lightest spot and I can then
judge my darkest value (being
Black), and work my tones in
around it. To create the iris, I
used Polychromos Burnt Orange
and Prismacolour Light Umber. I
then worked Pale and Dark Greys
with White highlights in and
around the eye to create the fur.MATERIALS
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