This is persian cat portrait which I’ve done for owner in US. It was quite challenging because often photos of white animals are very dark, this time I had incredibly dark, poor quality photo to work from, and it was taken against the light. This is additional difficulty. But finally the portrait turned out really good, didn’t it? :)
It is sized 16x20in. Here is little close-up of the face.
Handmade digital painting.
Soon I will show you how I do digital paintings (it’s not photoshop filter).
I’m sharing with you a portrait from before Christmas. This was a birthday gift for my client’s friend. It’s soft pastel on Hahnemuehle velour paper, 12x16in.
Here is during first stage of work, with few pastels I was using at the moment. Here is during first stage of work, with few pastels I was using at the moment. As you can see, even in so small drawings I use mainly pastel sticks. They all have at least one sharp edge to make fine details and most of pastel pencils are to hard to use on velour (but there are exceptions).
This is full body portrait so I continue with lower parts of the dog
Soft pastel, 12x12in
Pastel, 19×24″
