Create a beautiful illustraion of your puppy to display on wall.
Puppies are adorable. There are a variety of ways to capture their innocence in art work. You could draw and paint pictures of your puppy to display on the walls of your home. Or create a bold image of your puppy by using charcoal pencils. Consider using oil pastels to create a softer image of your puppy. Dabble with oil paints on canvas to create a true masterpiece of your puppy. Acrylic paint might be a viable alternative if you don't like smelly paintbrush cleaners, and if you prefer the convenience of not having to wait several weeks for your painting to dry.
Instructions
Charcoal Pencil Drawing of your Puppy
1. Use your own puppy as a model for your sketch. Draw the contour lines of your puppy, and keep drawing even if the puppy does not stay in one place.
2. Learn to accept that it is okay if your puppy drawing does not look perfect. The objective of this sketch is use the rich tones of the charcoal pencil to make a bold and interesting illustration.
3. Display your charcoal puppy drawing on the wall to admire and to encourage your growing artistic abilities.
Oil Pastel Drawing of your Puppy
4. Use what you learned from creating the charcoal sketch of your puppy when creating an oil pastel illustration. Lightly sketch your puppy with graphite pencil this time. This will make the contour lines easier to cover with oil pastels.
5. Trace over the major lines of your drawing with dark-colored oil pastels.
6. Fill in the lines with lighter colors of oil pastels and use darker shades to create the shadows and the rich hues of the puppy's fur. Use tissue paper to blend the oil pastels together, which will give the illustration a striking effect.
7. Consider taking a paintbrush and a bit of baby oil to go over the puppy illustration when finished, which will make it look more like an oil painting.
8. Frame the oil pastel drawing of the puppy to display.
Oil Painting of your Puppy
9. Use a reference photograph to make a light sketch of your puppy on the canvas.
10. Begin filling in the darker portions of your puppy drawing with oil paint.
11. Add the highlights to the painting, and use turpentine to thin the paint if needed.
12. Consider painting over any portions of the picture that you are not satisfied with, as oil paint takes a few weeks to dry completely.
13. Display you puppy painting on the wall once it has completely dried.
Acrylic Painting of your Puppy
14. Sketch an outline drawing of your puppy on the canvas.
15. Use a template to mix the acrylic paints and work quickly before these dry.
16. Thin out the acrylic paint by adding a little bit of water.
17.Allow the acrylic painting of your puppy to completely dry before hanging it on the wall.
