Monday, March 12, 2012

Minding the Den

Here is the completed gray fox pastel drawing. I used exclusively pastel pencils on smooth black Strathmore Artagain paper. I like how the pastels worked on the smooth paper, but I think the outcome is too dark.

This drawing is based on a photo I took at The Wildlife Center. This is one of their two female fox foster mothers.

The original and prints are available.

2 comments:

Chunbum Park said...

It looks absolutely amazing and feels like the real thing. How did you do that with pastel?

Heather Ward said...

Thank you! I used pastel pencils in pretty much the same way that I use charcoal. I started with a dark gray bottom layer, then put black on top and light gray over that for the majority of the fur.