Captain Jack portrait in progress 1 - Initial outlines

Starting a portrait of Captain Jack, a black and white Pomeranian, for Sindy B. This shows the detailed outlines I start with. 

In Sindy’s photo Captain Jack was holding a biscuit and she wanted me to leave that in. It is part of his personality. I’ll share more about that later.

I know people are going to ask me how I get these outlines. I use a digital projector. I trace the outlines with colored pencils, in colors similar to what I will be using there, not with graphite pencil. 

The crop marks for a 10 x 12 inch portrait are marked on the paper. I always work on larger paper than the planned size, in case the finished work calls for cropping it a little wider or taller.

🎨 Prismacolor pencil on “Flannel Grey” Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 10 x 12 inches.