Dog Face Practice

About 2-3 hours worth of sketches drawn from photos I've taken of the three dogs I'm currently pet-sitting. Absolutely the sweetest pups I've had the pleasure to take care of! A Belgian Malinois, a Sheltie mix, and a Lab/Hound/Rottie/giant mix named Willow, Chloe, and Maddy respectively. All older dogs, and utterly lovable goofballs. ^^

This is also an attempt to practice dog facial morphology by trying to remember the basic shapes seen around the eyes, and going from there. I can draw them fairly well when working from reference, but you can see how stylized they become once I'm going from pure memory (the 'no ref' sketches, and number 1 is especially hilariously bad). Gotta start from somewhere!

Media: Photoshop CS4
Time: 2-3 hours
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