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AS SOMEONE WHO SPECIALISES in coloured pencil pet portraits, I’m very familiar with layering fur and capturing texture, but this time I wanted to explore smoother surfaces, bolder shapes and underwate

Painting wildlife is beset with difficulties not often experienced with other genres. This style of painting can be divided into many categories. One of the problems of painting wildlife is that anima

Find out how EL GUNTO improvises a T-rex from scratch, using contrast, shapes and more for a striking illustration

Does painting different colours of fur need separate techniques? With any fur, you need to observe closely and identify its many colours and tones to make your painting accurate. A white dog is never

I like to work from photos, especially when the subject is tiny and might move. Photos also have the benefit of capturing exactly how light was falling on a subject in a given moment. To make the pain

I took a slightly different approach to this pet portrait than I would normally do. Rather than looking for a ‘story’ within the image, I decided to just concentrate on the beauty and character of the