Pet Portrait Drawing Tutorials | Catrin Membery Art

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Hand drawn realistic animal fur with coloured pencils, tutorials

Taking you from "I don't know where to start" to feeling confident with every new drawing.

My courses will teach you how to draw specific focus studies of all kinds of pets and animals through step by step guidance.

Each course will include : real time video tutorials for you to follow along

step-by-step photo and text guidance

reference photos & materials lists

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Every course will teach you the exact techniques I use to create realistic, lifelike animal drawings. Helping you to create artwork that you can be proud of with transferable skills.

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pet portrait artist, Catrin, with realistic german shepherd drawing in coloured pencils

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Hi, I'm Catrin, a professional artist with over 5 years experience creating realistic drawings of pets & animals.

I believe that with art, the learning never ends. My work improves with every drawing I create - even 5 years on.

I have created my tutorials with this in mind... so whether you are a complete beginner, or someone just looking for a bit of extra guidance with your art -you're in the right place!

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Drawing a Pug's Wrinkly Fur in Coloured Pencils

I have just finished two pet portraits for a client of a Pug x Brussels Griffon dog called Bonnie. With her being a crossbreed, as you can see in the portraits, she doesn’t have the deep wrinkles you usually see with pugs, but I still approached her drawings in a similar way. Wrinkly fur really isn’t as daunting as it initially looks once you know the right techniques. I started by lightly drawing in the darkest patches of fur, in what looks like her ‘eyebrows’, and underneat

drawing realistic brown fur, a side by side comparison of drawing base layers vs the final realistic result.ng

My Favourite Coloured Pencil Combos for Brown Fur

Even as someone who has been drawing dogs for years, my mind still stops for a moment when it comes to tackling brown fur. There are so many different colours peeking through underneath the perfect brown fur, and I often find it hard to know where to start - How light/dark do I need to go with my base layer.. is it a warm toned brown or cool toned.. or both!? If you follow me on Instagram you'll have seen that I'm currently working on a huge commission of Rocco the beauti

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Drawing a Pug's Wrinkly Fur in Coloured Pencils

My Favourite Coloured Pencil Combos for Brown Fur

Drawing Animals - Your Guide to Coloured Pencils by Catrin Membery

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