(Wo)Man's Best Friend

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My 9 year old Boston Terrier, Annabelle is a bright light in my life and she shows up in my work often. Best Christmas gift EVER!!!

Another pet portrait!.......I'm just loving doing these.

Sketching these two dogs in my sketchbook by pen and ink.

Forgot to post this doggo sleeping I made some time ago.

A close friend recently lost their family pet, Joey. As a tribute gift, I did his portrait. I usually just draw people, so this presented quite the challenge for me. I have never attempted to draw animals/pets. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Sanrio Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

Personal challenge to draw 100 pups.

Watercolor of a coworker's bulldog who recently passed. Winsor & Newton Pro watercolors on Arches cold press 140 lb

These were drawn by hand without lifting the pen, then colored in Illustrator. Did I get your dog?

Dogs will always make me feel better, especially the big one when you can just snuggle into that furry body!

A watercolor portrait of my best friends dog

This week, I've been doing pencil drawings of dogs---usually while listening to the news on my computer. Cardigan Corgi, Bloodhound, and Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound). Various graphite pencils on Canson Sketch pad paper. Random on-line photos as reference.

Practicing watercolor layers and puppies.

20” x 10” acrylic

Weibe is a lazy bassett hound. Got on a dog drawing kick and was experimenting with a lineless style, which I've come to like.

Screen print of a fabulous dream

A hand drawing ink illustration.

Fineliner portrait of Bracken, a German Sheppard Labrador cross

Doodle with Procreate

This was a commission for my best friend of her gorgeous dog Delilah, i had so much fun making this! Original size A4 created with procreate

Puppy painted with watercolour and acrylic paint.

I feel lop eared dogs are so cute these days. And I realized my dog got a lot of ribbons from his groomer (She give my dog a lovely ribbon every time we go and I really like it so keep them). Then, I drew this. I want one more dog or a cat...