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Aaaaaaaaand fifth thingy for 100 themes art challenge. I have so many projects that I haven't continued, so I'll just work on those from now on... or at least try...
I am very very happy with this. First realistic animal portrait thingy I managed to finish without getting lazy halfway through.
The scan, though... I need to practice photoshopping stuff. 
You can't see the lightest lines.
So, the story. This is Hachiko. I am too lazy to tell you all of it, but he always used to wait at the train station for his owner to come back from work. Which he continued doing after his owner died for like 9 years.
Poor dog... I guess many of you might know the story already anyway. So, I don't know how this came to mind. I guess he wasn't actually alone, what with all the people feeding him and stuff like that, but he sure missed his owner a lot. If you want to know more of him just watch the movie or check the Wikipedia page. x)
Used a screenshot from the movie as a reference pic. And I actually remembered the whiskers this time! Thanks to my mom, though. But they are there.
I used Caran d'Ache Pablo coloured pencils for this, about, uh, 10 of them? 6 browns, 3 greys and 2 blacks. Or something along those lines. And just basic faber castell pencils for sketching...
I am very very happy with this. First realistic animal portrait thingy I managed to finish without getting lazy halfway through.
The scan, though... I need to practice photoshopping stuff. You can't see the lightest lines.So, the story. This is Hachiko. I am too lazy to tell you all of it, but he always used to wait at the train station for his owner to come back from work. Which he continued doing after his owner died for like 9 years.
Poor dog... I guess many of you might know the story already anyway. So, I don't know how this came to mind. I guess he wasn't actually alone, what with all the people feeding him and stuff like that, but he sure missed his owner a lot. If you want to know more of him just watch the movie or check the Wikipedia page. x)Used a screenshot from the movie as a reference pic. And I actually remembered the whiskers this time! Thanks to my mom, though.
But they are there.I used Caran d'Ache Pablo coloured pencils for this, about, uh, 10 of them? 6 browns, 3 greys and 2 blacks. Or something along those lines. And just basic faber castell pencils for sketching...
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I chose this artwork because it had the light colours. And the snow just made it even brighter. Even though I know the story of Hachiko, and I couldn't really call it bright as it would be more dark and sad, but this picture surely is bright. And Hachi's spirit is the brightest of them all for sure!
I'm actually really impressed by the realistic look you had achieved! Yes, it still has the drawing look as the colours are bright, but I wouldn't call it an disadvantage or mistake, not at all! This is really lovely shaded! You have wonderfully used the different browns in the fur and managed to make it really alive and with lots of depth!
Honestly I can't draw realistic animals for my life, so I can't really give you any advice on the anatomy or stuff like that. But I can give you few tips on the techniques. While for this particular picture it works perfectly fine, but you shouldn't shade with black. It mutes all the colours and makes the whole picture greyer... Do some experiments with giving shades with different colours and shades of your pencils! Personally I find the dark blue/navy the best for shadows.
Also while you have mastered the wonderful flow of the fur, you haven't managed to get the best coloring technique for big and flat surfaces. Like the bricks and the dark background. Personally I can see the strokes of your pencil. There are strokes going || and = crossing each other giving the bar effect. I know that there is one acknowledged artist working with the bared coloring, but usually it's not good. my art teachers had always told to avoid that. While there is the technique called crosshatching, you shouldn't let the lines to meet an 90 degree angle. Get your first hatches down and change the angle just a little bit for the cross hatches. That way you will result way smoother outcome! And more solid colour. While the bricks doesn't look that bad.. But the dark background kinda is on a lot lover level that the other parts of picture...
Anyways, I really adore how this picture turned out for you! And I hope you'll do more amazing drawings in future!
Since this a tagline~ Your tagword is blue and the next person is
tagline with the tag BrightI chose this artwork because it had the light colours. And the snow just made it even brighter. Even though I know the story of Hachiko, and I couldn't really call it bright as it would be more dark and sad, but this picture surely is bright. And Hachi's spirit is the brightest of them all for sure!
I'm actually really impressed by the realistic look you had achieved! Yes, it still has the drawing look as the colours are bright, but I wouldn't call it an disadvantage or mistake, not at all! This is really lovely shaded! You have wonderfully used the different browns in the fur and managed to make it really alive and with lots of depth!
Honestly I can't draw realistic animals for my life, so I can't really give you any advice on the anatomy or stuff like that. But I can give you few tips on the techniques. While for this particular picture it works perfectly fine, but you shouldn't shade with black. It mutes all the colours and makes the whole picture greyer... Do some experiments with giving shades with different colours and shades of your pencils! Personally I find the dark blue/navy the best for shadows.
Also while you have mastered the wonderful flow of the fur, you haven't managed to get the best coloring technique for big and flat surfaces. Like the bricks and the dark background. Personally I can see the strokes of your pencil. There are strokes going || and = crossing each other giving the bar effect. I know that there is one acknowledged artist working with the bared coloring, but usually it's not good. my art teachers had always told to avoid that. While there is the technique called crosshatching, you shouldn't let the lines to meet an 90 degree angle. Get your first hatches down and change the angle just a little bit for the cross hatches. That way you will result way smoother outcome! And more solid colour. While the bricks doesn't look that bad.. But the dark background kinda is on a lot lover level that the other parts of picture...
Anyways, I really adore how this picture turned out for you! And I hope you'll do more amazing drawings in future!
Since this a tagline~ Your tagword is blue and the next person is