Dog Eye Tutorial Finished

Completed as far as I'm going to take it.
I was following a Dog Eye tutorial from Rebecca Rhodes but I've taken it past the eye and filled in the face that fits the 5x6 image.
There is a lot wrong but a lot right as well.
What a great lesson and what fun to practice more techniques and learn new ways of doing things.
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Horse Tutorial Cont. - Adding the Bridle and Blue Accents of Color

Still working along on this Horse Head tutorial offered by Carrie L. Lewis.
Today I added the Blue Accents, increased the contrast and started on the bridle.
Wow does that Blue make this piece POP!

What do you think?
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Dog Eye Tutorial

Following a Dog Eye tutorial from Rebecca Rhodes but I've taken it past the eye and filled in the face that fits the 5x6 image.
Here's what I've done so far

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Adding the Cast Shadows and Form Shadows

WIP Still ongoing with this fabulous tutorial provided by Carrie L. Lewis 
Now I'm starting to add the layer of Indigo Blue to darken the darks and cast shadows. This is where I ended last night.

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Starting to layer the Dark Brown to establish base values

Now adding in some Indigo Blue to increase the contrast

First Time with CP on Toned Paper

First time with Colored Pencils (CP) on Toned paper!
Here is the start of my next project. It is actually an emailed tutorial I got just before Dad passed away last June.
It is/was offered by Carrie L. Lewis and for those that don't know her, she is an Equestrian Artist and Teacher. This piece is on Canson Mi Teintes Grey Pastel Paper. My First challenge was how to get the image transferred. I've never drawn on toned paper with CP before. You can't erase on this paper very well without damaging it so the first thing I tried was to coat the back of my line drawing with a light colored Pan Pastel layer. Then transfer the image. While I've had great success with that technique for other drawings, it didn't work so well on this paper. I happened to have Saral waxfree transfer paper. So, I tried that next. That worked fairly well but I find I have to remove it before I can apply the CP because the CP doesn't cover it up.
So here is the image all transferred.
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