A3 Soft Pastels

I love the way Rachel Stribbling paints fur. And after admiring her work for a while, I figured that If I want to learn how to draw fur better. The best thing to do is try to recreate one of her peices.

I drew this before my other tiger drawing. And learn't alot from it. Paper selection was the main thing. I used plain card, which didn't hold any layers of pastel. Pastel paper works much better. I think the eyes worked well.

Check out my links to see Rachel Stribblings work.

More hatching practice.

A4

Need to try doing this now from life or photo.

I think the hatching is great for giving 3d shape.

Drawn on A4 from an anatomy guide book by (Giovani Civardi).

I was trying to use hashing to shade these

rather than blending by smudging. Started to get a

feel for it by the end of the hand drawing.
I'm quite happy with the result.

New Zealand Silver Eye.

Drawn for my little girl Brooke.

We like watching these little guys on our bird feeder.

A4 pastel paper

Drawn for my wife Philippa

Oz the male tiger from Auckland Zoo

With pastels on pastel paper

210mm x 230mm

Pencil and Charcoal.

This was my first time playing with charcoal,

lots of fun sort of happy with the result.

A4

Pencil

A4

Drawn from a photo

A4