Pet Portrait: Willow the Cat

My dogs were clearly feeling slighted with this recent foray into cat portraiture because they took it upon themselves to sneak a dog hair onto this drawing to be forever immortalized in the scan. You may never see it (and, thus, I should've just kept it to myself), but I do. And it will haunt me for the rest of my days... 

Original Photo:

Paper Used: 400 Series Flannel White Strathmore Artist Paper cut to 8×10″

Prismacolor Colored Pencils Used:

White - PC938
10% Warm Grey - PC1050
30% Warm Grey - PC1052
50% Warm Grey - PC1054
70% Warm Grey - PC1056
90% Warm Grey - PC1058
Grey Green Light - PC289
Celadon Green - PC1020
Cream - PC914
Light Peach - PC927
Salmon Pink - PC1001
Ginger Root - PC1084
Beige Sienna - PC1080
Sienna Brown - PC945
Dark Brown - PC945
Dark Umber - PC947
10% French Grey - PC1068
30% French Grey - PC1070
50% French Grey - PC1072
70% French Grey - PC1074
90% French Grey - PC1076
Black - PC935

Progress Pics: I warned everyone before, now that I'm doing timelapse videos in addition to keeping time and taking progress pics, something was going to get lost in the shuffle. I did better than last time when I completely forgot progress pics, but two pictures isn't much better... Don't worry, though, I've stuck a post it note to my computer reminding me of everything I must keep track of while drawing. Fingers crossed I actually pay attention to it!

Timelapse Video: I use the time-lapse feature on the iphone, and then speed that up to 4x in iMovie.

Time Spent: 20 hours and 53 minutes

Up Next: Dalmatians or St. Louis Cardinals... I still haven't decided. Though Dalmatians and the Cards do go hand in hand considering the opening ceremony each season, so chances are whichever I choose to do first, I'll do the second right after.

Until next time! Lauren H.
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