I fell in love with Tito as soon as I saw his pictures. He is a ridiculously handsome and photogenic cat! I knew right away I wanted to do his portrait last because I didn't want to feel rushed! His picture was a game-changer--one that scared me a little knowing that my skills had grown so much over the past year!
Binx has been on my mind all year. Now and then I redo a portrait because I'm not 100% happy with it, and as my skills grew, I knew I could do a better job. Binx is one of the reasons I decided to move to drawing faces instead of the whole pet. Sometimes it's easy to get stuck on details and faces work so much better, don't they?
A precious pair of puppers! For this drawing, I used a lot of light blue, peach and lavender intead of straight grey. I remember my high school art teacher saying white and transparent objects were about the colours you couldn't see.
It was with Pancake's picture I decided to really lean into only doing close-ups of faces. Sometimes trying to draw the whole body is a challenge! I made a mask to sponge paint on for his glorious whiskers.