Pet Portrait in pencil – Hamish and Oscar

This is a new pet portrait commission. I started working on this drawing yesterday and having completed the outline I started detailing the portrait today. The portrait is of a beautiful black labrador Hamish and an equally lovely cat Oscar, for  a client in county Kildare.  It is a Christmas present, so has to be finished in time for posting.

I have two original photographs and have put both Hamish and Oscar onto one 12″ x 10″ (30 x 25cm) size paper. They look really well together and I think the overall portrait will be quite effective.

As always I am using a HB pencil to start with and adding shadows in with a 2B and a 4B. I still have a lot to do on the details on Hamish and I will hopefully start working on Oscar tomorrow. When finished the first detail, I will look over the portrait and darken and correct areas that need more work.

I will post more in progress photographs tomorrow.

Graphite pencil drawing of a black labrador and a cat - work in progress step 4
Pencil Portrait of Hamish and Oscar - step 4

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Graphite pencil pet portraits - black labrador portrait - cat portrait - work in progress - step 3
Pencil Portrait of Hamish and Oscar - step 3

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Graphite pencil portrait of a black labrador and a cat - step 2
Pencil Portrait of Hamish and Oscar - step 2

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Graphite pencil portrait of black labrador and a cat - Hamish and Oscar - step 1
Pencil Portrait of Hamish and Oscar - step 1

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