All ears

Winner of The Pollyanna Pickering award for Endangered Species 2022

This is an image of an adult wild dog pausing briefly as it listens out for any sounds of danger. This image has been sketched using the medium of PASTELS on a Pastel Matt board.

This ORIGINAL has been SOLD to a PRIVATE COLLECTOR.

The following sequence of images will show how I sketched it

Firstly I've pencilled in the wild dog with it's raised right paw before starting to fill in the background

I then filled in the shimmering background and eventually moved to the forground

Then I carefully sketched in the dogs eyes and nose and then moved to its trademark large ears

Here I am standing at my work station (Easle ONE) as I add some hairs to the muzzle

The ears and the muzzle are now complete, so I move across the chest and down the raised leg and paw..

That's the dogs forelegs complete with part of the shoulder and chest already marked up.

Still adding black fur to the dogs shoulder whilst keeping my hand steady using a homemade Mahlstick

Now I've filled in the right back leg and tail before I move to its rump and then left rear leg

Scanned image