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Some friends self publish a calendar of their dogs (4 Newfies and a Basset Hound) and this study was done from that.

I needed a few sessions to complete this one. It was the first time I tried to depict fur and work in very dark tones with pencil. There were a lot of interesting structural differences from what I had learned in a human face and enough similarities that go to prove how useful anatomical knowledge is.

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Another quick dog drawing. It was interesting to see how flash photography increases the degree of difficulty (fur really begs for directional light). Also the affect that humidity has on paper was disconcerting to adjust to, different graphite weights felt very different from one session to the next.

 

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