My Art Journal

All finished!! Great timing, finished by christmas eve! Gave it to the lady today at work and she was very happy with it. Considering most of it was done after a few drinks last night up till 1am, I'm fairly happy. But have come to the conclusion that fluffy dogs are my nemisis haha. Terrible! And now I have 2 more of the little horrors to draw.
I'll put the photo up of the finished piece when I get home from work tonight.

You're much better at pastels than I ever could be (I mainly do pencil or ink...) anyway, I think what is making max look 'off' to you is his ear is offset slightly, and his eyes are unequal by just enough to make a difference. I guess that's why I love working mainly with lead, because you can go back and change things a bit easier, than say, pastel, or ink! Lol!Although with the layering you can do with pastels, can you go back and revamp things? Or is it a once it's done, it's done kind of thing? And I know what you mean by being extremely 'picky'...Lol! I'll toss sketches that other people are like "oh my gosh, that's gorgeous..."

Yeah, I found the photo difficult to work with as alot of the detail was hidden in shadow and I was unable to retrieve the details by editing on the computer. I rushed it as well, the owner is happy but I am not. Ah well, at the end of the day I get my money and if I have a happy client then that's fine.
You can go back over things to an extent with pastel, but every layer you add it gets harder to re-work and eventually you'll end up with a big blurred mess.

Looking back over the drawing, I think the issue is that the right hand side of his face (our left) is very awkwardly proportioned. I really struggled with that and as I'm not so familiar with cats I was unable to 'make it up' I guess. The cats face blended in with the background and as I am terrible at editing photo's on the computer, I wasn't able to find where the face ended and shadow started.

Yeah, I don't do cats much either...as they are very difficult to do...I always hats off and thumbs up to those who can really capture a cat on print really well!

Here's the horrible little fluff ball dog I've just finished. Sorry I've compressed it too small so it's lost detail!

You did a fantastic job, I knew you would pull it off!!

Awww...the ball of fluff is cute

I think you really did that little dog justice!!! So excited to see the finished piece!!!

Next commission.
3 beagles in one piece. VERY happy to have 3 very good photo's to draw from, and short coated woohoo!
I'm doing them in graphite, which could be interesting as I havent done a dog in graphite for about 3 years.