Silent Witness

A young leopard watches intently from behind a bow of a tree

This image has been sketched using PASTELS on Pastel Matt Paper.

Having finished marking up, as usual I work on the eyes first before moving onto the background

Working on the face and then down the leg to the paw

at my work station

Elbow done and also the other paw whilst making its leg slightly out of focus..

Marking up and filling in the bow colour of the tree 

Added intense shadow from the bottom right of the picture, then softened the image on the right.

Scanned and now just ready to be mounted and framed.