Dog

Today I am posting  paintings of dog that I have done in last couple of days. First one is a color pencil sketch of a standing dog. Here I used very gentle strokes of yellow ocher color pencil to do the basic shading.                                                                                        

                                                           

                   

 Below one is another sketch using color pencil, used black and brown color pencils to complete this sketch. Just drew the lines using the color pencil to depict the hair on the face and body of the dog.

Here is another painting of dog done using watercolor. For this sketch I used yellow ocher and light gray colors. Once the sketch is done, I used 0 size brush to draw thin lines of yellow ocher/ light gray lines around the body of the dog to depict the hair.

Below is another painting of dog done using watercolor. To do this painting, initially I gave  a layer of yellow ocher and light brown color. Once it is dried, then I drew black and brown lines.

Final one is another painting of mine done using oil paints.

Elephant

I have picked up elephant as my subject for today's painting.

here is the photograph of the elephant that I referred.

My aim was to get the exact replica of this elephant with correct body texture. 

I have used watercolor paints, black ink gel pen and color pencils to complete this sketch.

1. I started of with the sketch by drawing the ground line and decided the height and width of the elephant and then proceeded with the sketch, here is the completed sketch.

2. Once the sketch was done, I painted the entire elephant with different shades of black, gray and blue.

3. After that used black ink gel pen to draw the lines to get the texture and used gray and black color pencils to give the finishing touch.

4. Finally finished the painting by giving a background using watercolor.

here is the finished painting.

Now that when I compare my painting with the original photograph, I feel pretty much I have got the texture of the body, but my sketch should have been little better, especially the tummy should been little more bigger. Anyway, learning happens by identifying the mistakes and rectifying them in future.

Rose

Today I picked up rose as my subject for drawing.

Here are the ways in which I proceeded, starting of with a simple rose.

 1.  Drew the basic structure of the rose as very thin lines.

   

 2. Completed the sketch in this manner.

 3. And then did smooth pencil shading. So,  here is the outcome : pencil sketch of a simple rose. 

Here are some more paintings of mine of a rose. I generally start the sketch of a by drawing the petals which are at the center and proceed by adding the petals around the center. 

The below sketch is done using pencils: 8B, 6B, 4B, 2B and HB.

here is an attempt to capture red rose in my watercolor pad.

And the below one is an acrylic painting.