Deer complete

A couple more days work and this one is complete. I'm still not 100% sure whether this is a Fallow or a Sika deer, so i'm not committing as yet - with quite a bit of research, i'm quite sure it's a Fallow, but need an expert to hop over here and confirm that for me... Is Robert E Fuller around???

Finished piece is approx 35x24cm

Deer - Fallow or Sika?

Here is the isolated beginnings of a deer piece. I would like to pretend that I know what breed of deer this is and that I am just testing you viewers, but i'm really not sure.

I took the reference photos at Studley Royal Deer Park near Ripon and I know that they have Red, Fallow and Sika deer there. I would guess this is a fallow deer, but the differences between the two appear to be quite subtle.

Anyway, the deer is almost complete, just the background to go with this one.

Show season is upon us!

You may have noticed that, compared to my recent flurry of drawing activity, things have slowed down considerably. The reason for this is that show season is finally upon us. Unlike Art and Craft fairs, I don't tend to draw at the agricultural shows and the days in between are filled with printing, mounting, framing and generally preparing for the shows.

I'm not attending as many shows this year as last, so I should have much more time for drawing (I don't think I managed a new piece for over 6 months last year).

You can see our show set up here. This was Saturday's Honley Show. Being the first of the year, we inevitably forgot a few things, including our banners - hence why there is nothing in these photos to tell the public who we are! This was also the first test of our new marquee, which faired very well. We had a very sturdy marquee last year, but it took around 45 mins to erect. This marquee is almost as sturdy, but goes up in a couple of minutes.

Rottweiler

Here is this weekend's work. It was a 3 day fair this weekend due to the bank holiday, so I managed to get this drawing started and completed whilst at the fair.

I do already have a Rottweiler puppy in my collection, but, as it was one of the first dogs I ever drew, I felt it was in need of replacement. This was such an attractive Rottweiler (called Rocky) that I couldn't resist drawing him.

Size is as usual with my dog drawings at 21x30cm

Jack Russell

Well, this one went so quickly that I didn't get chance to post any stages other than the finished thing. This is this weekend's work, finished off this afternoon.

I already have a Jack Russell in my collection, which was drawn for my first book, but it wasn't a very 'generic' looking Jack Russell, so I have been wanting to draw another one for quite some time now.

Well, here we are! Finished piece approx 20x30cm

Jacobs Complete

After almost a 2-week break from this drawing (I had a lot of printing and mount-cutting to get done), I have finally got around to finishing it.

Final piece approx 28x19cm and around 45 hours

Back with the sheep

Here is this weekend's work. We are back to drawing sheep, Jacobs (apparently). These are more of our local Baaa-ing makers!

With it being the bank holiday, it was a 3-day fair this weekend, so I got quite far into this one. The background will be worked a little more once the three sheep are in, but will still remain indistinct.

A reminder for the future... wool is a bit of a nightmare to draw... stick to dogs!