Border Collie in Graphite
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Please find below the reference photo with easy-trace outline to follow along with one of my most popular Patreon tutorials, Pippin the Border Collie!
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Strathmore Bristol Board Smooth Paper: https://amzn.to/3TYagvh
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Faber Castell Mechanical Pencils, set contains 0.5mm used in the video along with a 0.7mm and the finer 0.3mm mentioned. https://amzn.to/3DpBj7y
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Faber Castell Graphite Pencils: https://amzn.to/3Dh5PR7
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Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen 0.5mm https://amzn.to/3oB9YsW
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Faber Castell Rubber Pencil: https://amzn.to/3CldlJv
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Multi Pack: https://amzn.to/3Cldwo9
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Frisk Bristol Board bright white paper used in technique clip: https://amzn.to/3qJLvo2​
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Blending Stumps & sillicone blending tool: https://www.jacksonsart.com/colour-shaper-pastel-blending-set-size-2-small?channable=0044a569640034353833320b&___store=jacksonsart_en&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3NX_BRDQARIsALA3fIKXx8x-WF7s_tQp7ALWKB4ib4kbJ6nyi5lbbPdyPr9vKDHNpQ-x7AUaAkCZEALw_wcB
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Tools & Materials List
Tutorial
To open the videos full screen, click the bottom right 'full screen' button on each video player.
Part one
Outline & base layer
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How to get our get our easy-trace outline onto the paper
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The loose graphite base layer
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The fluffy ear
Part two
Fur texture & Eyes
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Creating fluffy fur texture
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Drawing the eyes & reflections
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The second ear timelapse
Part three
Nose, Tongue & White Fur
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Nose
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Tongue
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White flowing fur on her body
Congratulatons!
Congratulations on completing this tutorial!
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You should be so proud of yourself for investing this time into your drawing skills. I hope you had heaps of fun and also learnt a lot in the process. Pippin was such a joy to draw, and I hope you now have a piece of work that you're proud of!
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