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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Coco the Beagle. Progress pix



My latest commission is a graphite pencil drawing of a beagle who has passed on.

He's coming along nicely, but there's still so much to do! I've gotten as high as a B pencil, but I still have to work up to at least a 4B before I'm done. And as of March 3rd, I'm still working on his body. Building the layers one pencil level at a time.

I'm not going to post this publicly until AFTER I get permission from she-who-commissioned-me. It's a birthday gift, and we wouldn't want to spoil the surprise now, would we?!

This is the original photograph...


And here's how he's coming along... 







Needing to boost the darks on the coat, bring the dog forward from the background and bring his face forward from his body. Loving it!!! 


Coco is about 98% done. I'm just going to "look" at him for a few more days, tweaking here and there.

Coco

I'm just waiting for she-who-commissioned the drawing to come over and view it. The weather hasn't been cooperative, what with the unexpected (for me) blizzard yesterday! We've got big puffy snowflakes falling today. With any luck, that's all that will fall. Keeping my fingers crossed! 



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