Author: Sidney_Eileen, Contributing Editor

Shading Details As before, I went over the base shading with detail strokes in the 3B and 5B pencils. In this area I switched off between the two, moving around the entire region adding more details. I built up the details, slowly making them darker and darker until they matched the reference. In the region around the elbow, I used extremely short, contrastingly dark strokes to create the impression that the fur is both rather short and pointing toward the viewer. A quick succession of compact, dark, ticks were all that was required. In the case of foreshortened fur, I will usually put in the darkest shade immediately after the base shade and then fill in any median shades. The shadows are so short that there is a lot of contrast. I filled in the pads of the feet with a 6B pencil so they would be as dark as possible.

Next Regions Continuing with the same techniques, I move on to the details of the torso region, and add base shading to the rear legs and tail.

Last Region Added are the median shading details on the rear legs and tail, with some of the darker shading details to the very right of the drawing.

Final Drawing - "Contemplation"

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