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Reader Submissions: Pet Portraits and Animal Drawings

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Animals are wonderful subjects, with their unique personalities and technical challenges, as difficult as any portrait could be. Here you can browse pet portraits and animal drawings, and add your own animal art to the Show and Tell 'gallery'.

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Zebra Drawing in Graphite

I took some pencils (2B and HB and maybe the 4H) and started my basic outline then going on to do the eye and the ears. After that was through I went and did the stripes. Then after all of the stripe…More

Tiger Cubs

I have been trying out lots of different techniques to try and get the textures of fur right ( quite tricky) but using a stylus, needle and blu tack as an eraser, plus alot of time and patience to bu…More

Dog Portrait Drawings - Alfie and Megan

I used Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils (4H, HB, 2B, 3B, 4B) and medium-weight acid free paper. The photograph was taken with a flash, so correcting the highlights in the eyes was a problem. Took a l…More

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