Pet Portrait completed

Here is Margaux's completed pet portrait:

Pet Portrait update

Here is an update on my latest pet portrait, a graphite drawing of Margaux, a black Labrador. This will be finished tomorrow.

New Pet Portrait - Margaux

Here's the initial sketch of my latest pet portrait. It's of a Black Lab, named Margaux and I'm looking forward to this one because, as you can see, it's a close up of the dog's face, rather than the usual posed head and shoulders. It's a graphite portrait and is 12" x 16".

Ruth and Rosco's portrait complete

Here is the completed portrait of Black Labrador, Rosco and his owner. It is a 12" x 16" portrait in graphite pencil.

Ruth and Rosco update

I have spent the last few days working on the portrait of Ruth and Rosco. I have started with Ruth as getting her features and expression right is the hardest part of the portrait. I have done her eyes and smile several times but think i've got it right now! Here is the update from today:

Ruth and Rosco

This Pet Portrait is a bit different from usual and a first for me. It includes the pet's owner. I was originally contacted to produce a pet portrait of Black Labrador Rosco, then was contacted again by my customer who explained that unfortunatley Rosco had just died and it was felt a portrait including Rosco and his owner Ruth would be more appropiate in the circumstances.

I am actually really excited about doing this and i have a lovely reference photograph to work from. It's not very bright, as it was starting to get dark when I took the photo but it gives you an idea. I've started the shading very lightly and left my grid lines in where the pencil will be dark and cover them up. I'm working from two copies of the photo on this one, I had to lighten it considerably to get some detail on Rosco so I have a super lightened copy for the dark bits and the original for the lighter bits and hopefully will manage to combine them to produce something good! Anyway - her they are, Ruth and Rosco: