Thursday Art Date with Rain -- "Creases"

Rain and her weekly Art Date theme 

have once again inspired me to complete 

an unfinished assignment from the 

"Art of Coloured Pencils" class I took 

in the Fall of 2019. 

This portrait of a Boxer Pup has plenty 

of wrinkles and creases!

 

(As do I, of course, but luckily this was

not an assignment in self-portraiture!)

So, back in 2019, I made a good start 

on the dog's eye, highlights and base colour --

Added a few more layers of colour . . . 

say, things are going swimmingly 

so far, aren't they!

And then I went totally berserk 

applying blue shadows to 

the dog's muzzle and under-eye area . . . 

. . . which meant I had to go over those areas again 

with some darker pencils, trying

to tone things down. 

It did help a little but as you know, 

once something's done, it's done

and there's only so much 

you can do to fix it after the fact.

Anyway, this toned-down version

 is where I left off in 2019 --

And here's the completed art 

which I finished just this week.

This required a total of 23 different

colours of Prismacolor pencils.

Once it was photographed,

I noticed that I'd applied the colours

on the dog's body with a much

heavier hand than on its head.

D'OH! 

I'm blaming the discrepancy on

being out of practice due to

the year and a half delay

between start and finish.

All things considered, however,

I'm happy with this dog.

[Art and photographs © Debra She Who Seeks, 2019-2021]