This is a drawing in colored pencil of my person pup, Mandy. She turned ~10 in this year (2024). She was a mutt adopted in 2015 and has become a therapy dog who goes into assisted living facilities, church, etc. with me.
Colored pencil has been an on and off challenge for me. Sometimes my brain cannot connect how to turn my refence photo into a hand draw piece of art. Other times all turns out okay, but if the piece isn’t sprayed with some sort of fixative the artwork gets ‘wax clouding’ – this is where the wax of the colored pencil seems to float to the top of the drawing and creates a white film above the colored work.
I do like how this piece of Mandy turned out. My style in the medium of colored pencil seems to give off a pearlescent feel to me. Look below to see what you think!
