This five dogs painting was a request by my sister. It took a few
days to capture good photos of these dogs, as they don't sit still and
were quite an unruly bunch. So I would wait patiently for each to sit
still and look my way, only then would I quickly snap a lot of
continuous shots from my phone. Luckily, out of many useless shots, I
managed to find some good shots that showed each of their distinct
personalities.
I started sketching them in my
Artrage app and laid them out in a horizontal format. Since there's
five of them and I wanted to finish it before Christmas, I decided to just draw
their heads,
For the painting, Instead of using Artrage app which is my go to app, I decided to use Clip Studio Paint
Ex to familiarize myself more with that app. I'm
still trying to learn and understand values, so I painted them in
greyscale first. To get the correct values, I converted their photos to
black and white first. It was so enlightening to see what the real values of
their colors really are. Choco was a surprise to me because her brownish
color was very light when seen in greyscale. I thought she would be a
bit darker than Snowy, Creamy and Brownie.
One
of the basic painting skills I'm learning is understanding the correct
value structure. I'm no way near understanding that concept yet. But I know getting the correct values would make adding colors easier. Below is the final version in color.