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Killian with his three whippets

Posted on September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

I worked on Killian’s portrait last year. It was commissioned as a present from his fiancee. He just loves his dogs, one of whom passed away last year. My client Lauren wanted me to capture all three dogs with Killian in one photo. She didn’t have a reference of all of them together so I worked from multiple photos pieced together into one composition.

three whippets and their owner pencil drawing
Killian with his dogs, 30 x 50 cm, graphite pencil on paper

The drawing was quite large at 30 x 50 cm and I used graphite pencils on Fabriano paper to capture Killian and his best friends. I only had a photo of Killian with his gloves on, so I removed this when drawing. Thanks to Lauren having some reference photos without his gloves, I was able to draw them correctly.

drawing of a man hugging a whippet dog
Detail of the drawing
two whippet dog drawing
Detail of the dogs in the drawing

Lauren supplied me with so many photographs, there was a lot of piecing together. It worked out quite well at the end and Lauren was delighted with the outcome:

Hi Ivana! Thank you so much. This is amazing – You are soo talented. I’m actually in tears here, he is going to love it

Lauren, Kilcock, county Kildare
client photos for a portrait
Reference photographs

It turned out Lauren was from my own village of Kilcock, so it was handy as she could collect the drawing. I put the portrait into a neutral coloured mount ready to go into a custom frame.

finished drawing in my studio
The finished portrait in a mount before it was collected from my studio
Working progress on the drawing

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