- Hanna 2
Watercolor on the railing: I've scratched & added color twice. I'm still building the contours & wood grain, but I like how it's going. I'll add some color pencil to define the grain further. Just scratching so far on Hanna. Clearly, I'm not worried about drawing the eyes first. Every drawing is different, the eyes happen when they happen... - Hanna 5 - detail
Detail of the "all scratched" stage - Image #5 This portion of the portrait is about 3.25" x 1.5" - Ubiquitous Bodie Car - '37 Chevy
I think everyone takes photos of this car. But it IS really cool! - View Through a Window
- "Tale of the Tail" - early stage - ink & scratching
The start of a 3" x 4.75" drawing of a tiger cub, playing with his mom's tail. Reference photo courtesy of Erik Bowker. I've added ink with a technical pen & have started scratching. The lighter black areas are the scratched portions. - Ronin 7 - All Scratched
All scratched . . . ready for color! - Livestock Guarding Puppy
This little one is 6 weeks old. It's a Spanish Mastiff/Great Pyrenees mix. - The Tale of the Tail
5" x 8", $65 - "Pugshot"
5" x 7", $55 - K9 Yukon - #4
This is the first pass with color (watercolor), he stlll needs a bit of work (scratching and coloring in select areas) to fine tune everything. - Chrome Rising - detail of process on hood
Close up of the eyebrow tattoo needle. It has multiple sharp pins that create a linear scratch pattern. - K9 Ronin
7" x 5", $55 12" x 9", $95 - "Safety" 1
Here's the first, sloppy stage of "Safety", 7" x 5" The reference photo has a lot of light values in it, so I used Claybord (white scratchboard) for the drawing - that way, I didn't have to remove a lot of black. using artistic license I chose to make the upper and lower left sections dark instead of showing the dog's body. The shape wrapping around her head is an arm in a fleece sweatshirt. At this stage, I blocked in the values by painting with full strength India ink & ink washes. It looks really rough here, but all this became detailed with scratching as I worked through the process. I used a Rapidograph (technical pen) filled with India ink to draw the eyes and to scribble the stripes of her brindle pattern. At this point I had just started "texturizing" the solid black areas by scratching. Here's an Instagram video showing stippling on a portion of the background: www.instagram.com/p/BH4aLolBaqP - "Safety" 2 - Detail
A detail of the 2nd image in the series. - "Safety" - Reference Photo
"Safety" The reference photo for a 7" x 5" scratchboard drawing