Dexter

Dexter in graphite

This picture was fun! First I drew Dexter, my aunt's sister's puppy who left for Rainbow Bridge far too young (that's why she had me do a portrait of him, because his family missed him so much). After I was done with Dexter, I mapped out the main stalks of grass, left them white, and shaded in around them. This is called negative space drawing and this was my first experience with it. So the main stalks were white and the rest was black. Then I used my eraser to make more, smaler stalks there gray and looked farther away. I had fun with the grass and even though I don't think it's quite detailed enough to look very realistic, I think it turned out really well.