Digital painting of "Maru" the cat on iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Procreate

Digital Painting of "Orange" cat on iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Procreate

animals digital illustration for SAF

Client's brief:-
"Attached concept for the 3 eagles, as well as 6 wolves.  first wolf will be the one howling while the other five are like running towards it.  The position of the six wolves will be kinda facing the leading doberman on the left side.  Colour-wise the 6 wolves would need to be same colour...."

Client's feedback:-
"Wow! It's really good!"

Digital gig for Super Cuddles Grand Opening

A 3-hours digital gig, 11:30am - 1pm; 1:30pm - 3pm, with a 30 minutes break in between for lunch, at Super Cuddles Clubhouse, Tanjong Katong Road.


My digital tools - Macbook Pro, Wacom Cintiq 12WX, Cannon digital photo printer CP800.
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As discussed with the client earlier, pets are harder to keep still, as compared to kids.
Thus, we agreed to use photos to sketch. The money collected will be fully donated to ASD (Action For Singapore Dogs)

Drawing on the template pre-prepared for the client.





Guessed what? The Cintiq has connection problem. Thank goodness that I have my Asus EeeSlate B121 as backup for sketching! Phew!



The 2 dogs which had passed away. The owner wanna have a sketch of them as remembrance.

Sketching from the reference photo on my iPad.


Printout.

Captured some videos of me sketching on Asus EeeSlate B121.


I think teh decision of sketching from photos was a wise move, as they can't even keep still for a second. Even snapping good photos of them was a challenge!:D





Artificial lifting of the ears!:D


4R digital photo printouts.











Printouts waitng for collection by the pet owners, as well as the funds collected for ASD.








Sorry for the rather noisy background noise in these videos.

Portraits in pen and brush of a man and dog

The dog and the subject are lying on the floor in the reference photo.
Thus, the ear is 'lifted up' here.
I don't have any other reference photo this dog.
No choice, but to draw it as it is.

Client's feedback:-
"Oh, very nice!"

Dog portrait in colourpencil

I seldom draw pet portraits, be it in pencil or colourpencil.

The last few dog portraits was done when I was drawing in Clarke Quay., think about 6-9 years ago. The above portrait was an order from a Japanese lady (I used to have a lot of Japanese clients in Clarke Quay at that time). Her 2 dogs has passed away. This portrait was done in rememblance of her beloved pets.


This is the new dog portrait in colour pencil, after so many years.
For dog portraits, besides the proportion (the face, the face in relation to the body), we need to take note of the flow of the fur and muscle.
In this case, this dog has long fur.
All the muscles are covered up with the fur.
My concern here is the flow of the fur. On top of this, the ultimate goal of drawing the fur is to achieve the softness of the fur, with the colour tones taken into consideration too.

The client gave me 2 photos, and this one is better than the other, but the legs are hidden. Thus, it looks rather wierd at the first glance of this portrait.


She chose a white frame.
I chose a brown border (colour differs from the original colour due to camera lighting) with a v-groove to enhance the portrait and frame.