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Thursday night's live stream 7pm

If you want to join me, I'm live on youtube in 10 mins drawing the second ear, chatting about stuff and talking about golden retriever fur colour :)

If you want to join in on the chat, use the link below :)

https://youtu.be/UcIzOlCAmx4

The Look Out - Part 11

If you want to see more of the indenting and creating the fur texture, then this video is a really good one to watch :) 

The Look Out - Part 10

The Look Out - Part 9

1 hour 16, I draw the paw if you want to skip to that part :)

The Look Out - Part 8

Around 3 minutes in I start to work in between the whiskers - so if this is something you are interested in - have a look :)

The Look Out - Part 7

Social Media Tips - Using Groups

One of the things that people asked for last month was taking parts of my tutorials and re-purposing them into either highlights, or creating stand alone videos that have some useful elements to them - either a technique or maybe something prudent to do with running an business.

As I was editing the Tabby Cat video I came across this 16 minutes clip all about social media and groups - and...

The Look Out - Part 6

For anyone wanting to see layers go down and talking about colour and how to connect sections, then this is quite a good stand alone video - from around 7 minutes in.

September's Q&A - Saturday 19th September 2pm UK

Our Q&A session will be all things social media and marketing this month. So get your questions in, sending them to my email: bonnysnowdonfineart@gmail.com. Please make your email subject line SEPTEMBER Q&A

This session will be recorded and the playback link shared for you.

Here's the invite:

Topic: Q&A 19th September 2pm

Time: Sep 19, 2020 02:00 PM London 2020-09-06 13:39:28 +0000 UTC View Post

The Look Out - Part 5

The Look Out - Part 4

Working on the second ear. If you want to use the indenting method it will work well - I decided against it and do actually regret not using it.

The Look Out - Part 3

Bit more of the head, showing adding the base layers and then the texture and details on the top.

October's tutorial choices

We've had cats - now it's the dog's turn!

I wanted ideally to create a full body so you have lots to get your teeth into and can dip in and out with different areas if you want to.

So we have a little corgi, weimaraner,  labradors and a german shepherd.

Focus I'm thinking the german shepherd hair on drafting film would be rather fab!

Let me know which one you would ...

Cat Face Focus - Part 5

So this one has the first hour and five minutes where my microphone was not working (user error sadly). I have added in some narrative and a bit of music to make the silence more bearable - you should be able to see what I'm doing, huge apologies!

Cat Face Focus - Part 7 (Final Part)

Here's the final part of the cat face, drawing the rougher hair under the chin.

I really hope you've enjoyed this one :)

Live on YouTube tonight 3rd September 7pm uk time

Drawing the Alpaca again - going to tackle the ears with the slice tool if anyone wants to join in :)

Here's the link if you want to join in with the live chat :)

https://youtu.be/7iN9eNaJJj0

Cat Face Focus - Part 6

Cat Face Focus - Part 4

I did a very very silly thing! 15 minutes before the end of this part of the video I switched my mac off to try to stop a whining noise - and forgot that my microphone was plugged in - so there is no sound for the last 15 minutes - I'm so sorry. You should be able to see clearly what I'm doing, but again huge apologies.

Cat Face Focus - Part 3

2nd ear and into the face.

The Look Out - Tabby Cat Part 2

2nd part of this full tutorial, working into the ear and down the head

Places added to $20 tier

If you want to upgrade to the $20 tier then I have added a few more spaces for you :)

Scanning and retouching process for prints

I'm creating prints of the two cats, and whilst I was scanning them this morning I thought I'd video the process and show you how I scan flat (no contrast so the scanner picks up highlights and shadows) and then retouch in photoshop. 

Cat Face Focus - Part 2 - adding the indents to the ear

Part two of this tutorial.

This one might be useful for those just wanting to see the intending process.

Cat Face Focus - Part 1 (Fabriano Artistico)

Here's the first of the focus video for September.

This is on 25x20cm fabriano artistico hot press traditional white paper.

I've used indenting methods on this piece to show a different way of creating fur, I've always shied away from this method as I've found it can look a little messy, but I've had a go and I really like the results.

Here are links to the tools I used:

The Look Out - Tabby Cat Part 1 (Fabriano Artistico)

Here's the first part of the tabby cat tutorial. 

Materials list attached, plus ref photo and line art. 

I have used the indenting method on this tutorial as well - although chickened out on the ear, and really wish I hadn't.

The tools I used are here:

Pergamano 0.5mm embossing tool
2020-09-02 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

September’s focus video

It’s all about indenting the paper to create the fur on this one 🥰

She’ll be going up on the 2nd

September’s focus tutorial 🥰

My goodness I didn’t realise how much I love drawing cats!!

This is the second cat and a focus - all different types of fur. I’m using indenting methods on this so you have another technique in your tool box 🥰

Who’s going to be giving this one a go? You can draw it on anything you like - the techniques will work on smooth and pastelmat. I’m drawing it on Fabriano so I ca...

Drafting Film Q&A - re-post

Lots of questions about drafting film, so here's the link to the Q&A that I did a while ago taking you through the different kinds of film.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/drafting-film-q-36232873?utm_medium=clip...

September’s full tutorial 🥰

Here she is!! I need a name for her as well 🥰

She’ll be being uploaded from the 2nd September- I’ll try to get the pencil list up before but I’ve tried to keep the colours to a minimum 🥰

A few useful Q&A's

I was sent an email with some good questions, so am copying and pasting below as I think these will be useful :)

What do you do when your piece is complete?

I see by your website you send your finished work out “professionally mounted with backing board and wrapped in acid free acetate” … do you do all of that or do you have someone else do it? Wh...