I finally had a chance to go back to this drawing! I started it in February! It’s been really bothering me that it took me so long to start working on it again. This is a drawing of Bud the dog. He was a big, black lab that was at the Animal Humane Society when I did one of my volunteer dog walking shifts back in 
December 2011. This is a piece that I want to use in a whole show about shelter dogs. I don’t know when or where this show will be, but it is a plan I have for the distant future.
I realized a while back that the sizes of his eyes just didn’t match up right. The eye that’s closer to us should 
be larger! Ugh. I went in and erased part of the left eye, and then subsequently decided that’s the area I should work on in order to make sure I could cover up the parts I erased. I was a little worried because that side of his face is in the light, so I couldn’t just count on the black being able to cover everything up. You can see where it’s at right now… Unfortunately these photos are a bit dark. I promise that his eye stands out more against the blue in person.
I want to mention that this drawing is a bit dark intentionally though. As a mentioned briefly, I want to do a whole show with art created from the shelter dogs I’ve walked. I got the idea from a different blog… Project Fifty Two. If you do happen to click the link, you’ll find that the author of that blog indicates it’s better to have different styles to suit the varying tastes of an audience. I think that’s a pretty good idea. Of course you want the pieces to still fit together in a way. That’s the tricky part. This is obviously going to be one of the darker pieces. I also have jollier ones that I’ve already completed, like Rocky here. He was also a dog at the Humane Society.
Getting back to my drawing, this is a larger one. It’s about 16 x 21 inches. I want to finish it in time to enter into the Minnesota State Fair. I don’t have any other drawings I’ve completed in the past year that I think are even close to being good enough. I’m going to write a how-it-was-done blog about this one soon. Hopefully within the next couple days. It might look like a black and grey blob right now, but it’s really not!
One more thing I want to mention, if you read previous posts, originally I was intending this to be entirely grayscale, no color. Well, obviously I couldn’t go through with it. I need my color, hence, the blue. It is still going to be very monochromatic though.
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Peace!
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