Painting cats from photos

Here all the cat has now been painted over with basic colours and I have started to overpaint onto these basic colours.

 

Here the pastel pencil is used to outline the end of the nose and with thin lines like this it is best to use a pencil rather than big thick lumps of pastel which can be rather cumbersome to use on small areas. Lighter strokes of form have been added to the cats forehead.
 

Cooler blues have been added over the burnt umber colour on the cheeks, forehead and ears and more refining of the nose has taken place, all that is needed now is more refining of all other areas. The eyes have been defined more and the pupils have been added now but with no highlights as yet.
 

More lighter and darker colours of the same colours have been added and more form has also been painted onto the forehead and its a good idea to follow the form of the hair with your pastel strokes. I have started to add fur on the cats chest using the same colours I have used throughout the portrait.


 

Here the cats paw has been painted in and it looks a bit cut out at the moment so what it needs is more form with our pastel strokes to give it volume, areas especially the outline of the paw need to be softer and less cut out and some areas need to be harder to accentuate certain areas.


 

Now the paw and leg don't look cut out as much because some areas of the paw and leg have been softened and some areas have been left harder, the area where my finger is, is where the line is soft and then to the left of this it is harder again giving contrast.
 

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