Fuzzydragons

Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Start of a cheetah face. The eyes look a little lop sided at the moment, I'm hoping it looks more even once more of it is complete. I also need to try to make the eyes look a little more glassy and than work on all those spots. :) The scanner has a hard problem scanning the yellow coloured paper, makes it a bit more orange than it actually is. I actually found Root Beer here the other day. I knew I could get it, but just had never seen it before. John hates the stuff, can't stand the smell, I love it. His parents both took one whiff of it and declared that it smelt like Germolene , an antiseptic cream. Well thats better than John saying it tastes like Germolene (not sure how he would know what the cream tastes like, don't think I want to know). Now if only I could get All Dressed chips and Rockets here. No Scottish word today because I can't find my little dictionary, hopefully I find it tomorrow *crosses fingers*

"Ice Cream" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Its very cold out, so I have no idea why I decided to draw ice cream. Just made me feel colder :p Todays Scottish word: 1) stob Answer to yesterdays Scottish word: 1) kye are cattle. Its the plural from of coo.

"Ice Cream WIP" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip So another of the mystery flowers has bloomed and its a really nice colour. Still no idea what type of flower that it is. Not sure if the above card looks like ice cream yet, hopefully by the time it is done it will. There is another little kitten prowling the area. Maybe 4 months old at the most. Cute little tabby with gorgeous eyes. Kept trying to jump out from behind things to grab my legs but as soon as I saw him, he went the other way and would pounce on the clothes pins when they fell to the ground. All he wanted to do was play, no fear of people so I doubt he is feral. I'm going to try to get a picture of him, but he moves so fast sometimes it probably will be hard to. We used to have a tabby cat that we called "M-Head" for the markings on his head. Yeah, we had a hard time naming him. But he was a cool cat, would shake a paw like a dog. Its getting really cold here, but I still am wearing my sandals outsid...

I was going to have an update on that Shire piece, but I really did mess it up. Meh, you win some and you lose some. I need to practice my backgrounds. I will be doing it again, but I think next time it will be done in graphite. And before anyone asks, its not fixable. :( Thats one problem with doing artwork in stages online, nothing to post if the piece gets wrecked. So instead of some horses, have a cat. :p *edit* Todays Scottish word: 1) fower Answer to yesterdays Scottish word: 1) laich means low

So I took the last 2 days away from Blogging so I could try to get the Shires finished. Here is the adult Shire pretty much completed. I need to work a bit on the neck area, (make it darker) and her forelock, it looks a little too neat for me (brushes are over rated :p). Another close up of the paper and you can see the texture a lot better in this one. I think that maybe next time that I use this paper I will use Pastels, considering thats what it was originally for. So the next update will be a completed picture with the stable coloured and than any touch ups that I notice finished. If any one sees anything that needs work, please let me know. Its a lot easier with the paper to lighten anything, but trying to darken something is almost impossible once the paper has become saturated with colour. Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Its a little weird that it is so green and its fall. I don't think that I will get use to the trees still having their leaves and the grass being so green. ...

Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Added the headcollar to the young horse. It looks so much better now that the empty spaces are filled up, his head doesn't look so oddly angled. I still need to add a few shadows to the headcollar, and fix the thickness of a part of it that lays against his nose. I am including a few close-ups so that a person can see the texture of the paper and try to see how the colours blend together. In the close-up of the collar, you can see how little colours are actually used. I think I used 4 different shades of blue with a bit of brown to try to make it look a little dirty, and 3 greys for the metal parts. Once there is about 3 layers down, the pencils start to blend together like I was using a colourless blender, but there is less wax bloom happening. In both of these you can see the directions of the pencil strokes, which go along way in making the horse look realistic. Normally you might not see the horse's eyelashes, but in this case I left them in...

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