Dog portrait of tibetan terrier called "Väinö"
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- Published: Wednesday, 05 August 2015 07:07
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Dog portrait of tibetan terrier called "Väinö".
Here´s a work in progress photo of the colored pencil drawing.
In this stage I´ve also started to add the smallest details of the white fur.
Detail from the portrait of Väinö.
And then look what happened to my white colored pencil…
after layers and layers of white fur.
I´m always delighted to see photos from my clients with their commissioned portraits. The owner of Väinö kindly sent me this photo (below) and wrote a lovely email about the moment when the portrait arrived home. She wrote that Väinö was looking his portrait drawing and then went in front of the mirror to check his own reflection - over and over again. Oh, what a cute and discerning art critic ;)
In the photo the portrait has just been picked up from the post office, and there´s also still the plastic wrap protecting the drawing. In the drawing you can also see the bit “groomed” style of the fur compared to the natural fur style that Väinö is having when the photo was taken.
The portrait drawing was created based on several reference photos. One photo was taken straight ahead and was offering the most important reference for the likeness and proportions. I also used many other reference pictures, also few close-ups from the eyes.
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The portrait of Odie has reached home USA! Here´s the model, the finished drawing and on the right few of the original reference photos. Likeness was drawn from the photo up on the right. The color and the lightness of the hair were adjusted from the another small photo below that.
Several other photos were also used to achieve Odie´s style with longer hair, for example on the tips of the ears and cheek area. You can see the difference when comparing the current look on the left and the reference photos style with the white hair in the ears (covering almost completely the dark brown areas of the ears). All these little details were considered into the portrait.
