With the reference photo clipped beside my easel, I start air- to. Just lightly dust the color on to tint the areas, don’t get too
brushing in the grey areas. I just look at the reference photo dark. This step does not have to be super specific, just a general
and put grey in my painting where I see grey in the photo. I also under-painting. Now more browns and even pink, still just creat-
darken the edges of the leather. Now I airbrush the yellow color, ing the base colors of the under-painting.
blue, brown and purple on my painting as it appears in the pho-
I darken the background and start laying white in to indicate can be softened later with the airbrush. Now I took white and
patches of fur. The white is not opaque so the background col- began laying in individual hairs with the airbrush on the face
ors show through. I took a paintbrush, [an airbrush will work keeping the direction of fur growth in mind. I also added a glint
as well, I used a brush here for speed] and blocked in the stark in the eye with white and a bit of blue.
white highlight as it appeared in the reference photo. The edges
At this point I started working on the I work over all of the details, checking my Now I began laying in more fur with the
eyes, teeth, gums, and nose detail. reference often until I am pleased. airbrush and opaque white.
I use the white to create tufts of fur
on the neck and face and to soften the
brush marks on the big stark white high-
light area.
This is a close up of the eye detail and of
the tufts of fur on the face.
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