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Author: Toni-Marie_Hudson, Contributing Editor
| Here, I have worked up to the top of her head using the same technique as before for the hair. There aren't so many grey hairs in this area and the hairs are also a little longer, so longer strokes should be used. The direction of the hair tends to fan out from between the eyebrows and the strokes must always follow the lay of the hair. On the top of the head, light from the sky has reflected to give the blue/grey highlight. This highlight is vitally important because it is the only visual information that tells the eye the shape of the top of the head. I used white coloured pencil and some watery acrylic to produce this highlight. |  |
 | Here, I have started on her left ear and on the white area of hair behind her ears. I painted it white with acrylic and then painted white hairs jutting out of the top of it like in the ref photo. More of these hairs need to be added.
Also, you'll notice I have started putting in base colour on the white hair round her left side. This area is in shadow so needs the blue hues again. |
| Here, I have developed the white hair on her left and added more detail. The dark area that runs up the middle had darker tones painted over it and slightly lighter hairs and darker ones drawn in with graphite and white coloured pencil. The lighter hair that overlaps it was painted in afterwards with acrylic as I needed the coverage when doing that.
You can see the right ear in it's first stages too. Basically, just black watercolour pencil watered down and black coloured pencil on the darkest bits. I had also started Mist's back end. I needed to do that before continuing with her right ear which needed to overlap it. I added black and brown watercolour pencil and watered it down for the first stage on the backend and worked up in layers adding more of the WCP once the previous layer had dried then watered that down again. |  |
 | At this stage, I had gone over the back end with acrylic to make it fully opaque, waited for it to dry then used dry watercolour pencil and normal coloured pencil to add in the lighter areas. Her back was out of focus, so detail here should be kept to a minimum and only the impressions of highlights and shadows put in, no hairs. The edges of highlights had to be undefined and fuzzy too. For the lightest highlights, I also used acrylic.
Part of her stifle (knee) is showing where the hair is white. Because her stifle was bending in the photo, the clumps of hair on it are separated and you can see the shadows between them. I painted in the darker base and then painted in fuzzy impressions of pale hair clumps for this. Her right ear is almost complete. I worked up the layers of watercolour pencil and darkened the blacks using a black coloured pencil. I then used acrylic for the final opaque layer; then used a combination of acrylic and watercolour pencil for the detail and highlights on the edge of the ear. |
| Her back end is almost done apart from the pale area in her stifle which needs further highlights. I have made a start on her white collar on her right side now that the back end is finished. I used white acrylic with a touch of yellow ochre for the warm tones given off by the evening sun for this part and softened the edges of it with lots of fine hairs which overlap her back end.
I have also put in the base colours for her chest area and the general impressions of the shadows etc... I am not including her collar in this painting as I feel it would only detract and look ugly. |  |
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