Posts Tagged ‘drawings’

Tara – Cat Pet Portrait demo Part 2

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I finally have had time to post an update of Tara’s pet portrait painting.

The first two photos are close-up views of the eyes and fur base colours.

Left eye:

Tara Cat Pet Portrait in progress

Right eye: This shot also shows some of the brown tones that have been used in the base of the tabby fur.

Tara Cat Pet Portrait in progress

In this next photo I have added the cream markings on her mouth and I am beginning to model the shape of her face under the white fur. Although grey colours are often used to depict white fur, using other shadow colours of the right value such as pinks, violet and lilac can add depth into the white fur without making it look dirty (which is easy to do on drafting film).

I think I forgot to mention this previously, but I intensified the strength of the whiskers in white pencil earlier on to avoid loosing them in the fur. At the end I will go back and redefine them and put shadows in where needed.

Tara Cat Pet Portrait painting in progress

The next update will include the final version of Tara’s Pet Portrait.


  • Share/Bookmark

Final: We Three Kings Part II – Lion

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I nearly forgot to post an update with the final of my lion, so here he is, Part II of “We Three Kings”, 8″x8″, artist colour pencil on drafting film.

I’m not surprised that more and more colour pencil artists are starting to use drafting film for their work. I am now absolutely convinced that drafting film is the perfect support for use with colour pencils, at least with my style and technique. It is definitely not easy to use initially, and it handles totally different to any other support that I have worked with (it dosn’t take as many layers so you really have to make each mark count!), but the results as definitely worth it, so I will be doing a lot more work on film in the future!

Lion Painting by Michelle Wrighton

Cards and prints featuring this artwork can be purchased at

Buy my art

  • Share/Bookmark