Monday is Pug Day ... or How I Draw Pugs

The start of the week can be a stumbling block for me ... just getting going! So I've gone back to one of the small drawings I did for my "Draw Every Day For A Year" as a starting point. Surprise surprise it's a pug .... but you can see the stages below from rough drawing to coloured piece at the end. I always do the initial drawings on layout paper (or marker pad paper ...the Letraset one is pretty good and easily available here in NL) The paper is nice and smooth and easy to do the many corrections I need to do!!! (you can actually see all the corrections on the first drawing where lines have been at the wrong angle ... or just ...wrong!)

Initial rough drawing ... you can see all the mistakes too ...

When I'm happy with the rough drawing ... I use a light box to trace through and add extra details like the collar. Then the light box again to transfer it on to a good quality paper. I find if you're using coloured pencil and you want a smooth finish .. then smooth surface heavy weight cartridge paper is pretty good (I use windsor and Newton 220gsm)

                        

 drawing with collar and crown(left) and final pug (right)

Then all thats left to do is add the colour. 

I used a mixture of Caran D'ache Pablo and Prismacolor for this one.

Finally just blend the colours with a colourless blender and then a burnisher to stop smudging (Derwent do some decent ones)  And thats it! TaDaah!

Thanks for looking in again.

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