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Meet Dingo the German Shepherd

Posted on by Zara Toms
🐾✏ Dingo ✏🐾 One of my favourite portraits to date. This handsome, very smiley German Shepherd was one that will feature as a full length German Shepherd tutorial on Patreon. I was asked to draw his eye and surrounding fur for a focus study but when I  saw the photograph I couldn't resist drawing all of him. The lighting, the contrast, his expression and his colo...
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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO

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I regularly share voice over tutorials to my YouTube channel and the full length, much slower with in depth voice over versions are available on my Patreon channel. Pastels are a fantastic medium and are a joy to learn. I am launching an acrylic tier very soon as well which I am really excited about. I upload a variety of tutorials and regularly take requests for specific content should any member...
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🐾✏️ 💦 SWIMMING BLUE IS FINISHED 💦✏️🐾

Posted on by Zara Toms
I LOVE a challenge! First time attempting water with pastels but it was my favourite part when working on his portrait. I enjoy capturing movement of subjects anyway so creating the ripples and movement of the water was the element where I didn't want to put my pencils down. A typical Labrador - water baby - doing what they know. I have been asked to draw many of Blue's family pets so it was a ple...
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WATER DOG!

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🐾✏️ 💦 Lots of water in this one! 💦✏️🐾 Today I started work tackling the most challenging part about this portrait -the water. Very much looking forward to creating the movement in the water with all of those ripples. Very cute reference photograph to work from. Do you have a dog that loves water just as much?   This portra...
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Acrylic collage

Posted on by Zara Toms
🐾🖌 I love working in acrylics 🖌🐾 I enjoy creating these collages because it shows how every portrait goes through a layering process. It's a gradual progression building values and depth and it's very similar to how I approach my pastel portraits.   I loved painting Alfie the West Highland Terrier. White fur can be tricky but the reference ph...
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Meet Dod

Posted on by Zara Toms
🐾✏ Dod ✏🐾 Last year I had the pleasure of drawing Dod in pastels. She is sadly no longer with us and her owners miss her so much. She was a special part of their family and wanted the portrait as a way of remembering her by.  This 14" x 20" portrait was a nice size for a full body portrait. Her owners wanted a little amount of grass around her and they wanted...
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NEW full length tutorial

Posted on by Zara Toms
🐾✏ Tom - Cavalier King Charles ✏🐾   Yesterday, Tom's full length tutorial went live on Patreon. The Patreon library here on my website is updated with all available tutorials that are on Patreon :). I have so many more tutorials planned. The next fur focus study will be a Spaniels ear - lots of curls :).  Should you want to draw Tom yourself and fol...
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