10 Tips for Painting Dogs

Painting dogs can be very rewarding, but much work as any dog lover knows it is impossible to get a dog to sit while you work on obtaining the views just ... But there are things you can do to make your life easier when painting a dog. Here are 10 of them:
Dog Painting
 Tip 1: Do not create stress Even the best-trained dog can not remain motionless for hours (and it would be cruel to try), so do not stress trying to get that to happen. Doing quick sketches, taking photographs as a reference for the pose you want and make detailed studies of life when your dog sleeps - it may be the angle you want, but it's good practice for fur , muscles, and proportions. Ask your partner to walk your dog back and forth in front of you so you can observe and sketch (remember to have a reward at the hand for two when you're done!).
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Tip 2: Know Your Dog Breeds Each dog breed has its own characteristics, be it a pug nose short or curly hair of a poodle. Learn the basic shapes, proportions and characteristics of specific breeds and it goes to paint an individual dogs easy. If you paint a "pavement special", you will be able to use your knowledge of specific breeds of dogs to identify his assets likely. But at the same time, be sure to capture the individuality of a dog and do not paint a generic. Use it in the artists still use their knowledge of human anatomy used as a basis for the portrait.
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Tip 3: Hair dog hair is not only vary in length, color and curl, but it also grows in different directions on different parts of the body. This is visible even on the shorter-haired dogs. The face is an area where there are several "changes" in the grain.
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Tip 4: The Eye Start by observing that the demonstration in the dog's eyes are.Draw it, then the size of the pupil (black part of the eye), then the size of the iris (colored part), then the rest of the eye. If you get the highest point in the eyes of a dog in the right place and in the right proportion, the eyes look straight.
Painting Dogs
 Tip 5: Eye Colour Most dogs have brown eyes, but of course not all browns are the same, or uniform, so once again, be sure not to paint a generic eye color, but to scrutinize specific color of the eyes specific dog.The iris of the eyes of miniature dogs tend to not be very visible.Like humans, dogs can have eyes that are different colors, but this is rare.
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 Tip 6: Ears Ears play an important role in the transmission of personality in a painting of a dog. Are they pitched, listening? Droopy? One is folded in on itself? Pay attention to where they are sitting on the head, because it varies from race well on the right side on top of the head. Also measure the length of the ear carefully - it could be much longer than you think!
Painting Dogs
 Tip # 7: The legs and feet The legs are the hardest to learn in life as if they do not move, they are often hidden by the body. Reference photos are very useful to ensure that you get "right" in the legs a hound. Once again the different races have their legs and feet characteristic, such as an English bulldog clamps do not touch the ground because of its thick short legs, while the claws of a stretch beyond Dobermannpads. If it is a long haired dog, watch the way the hair falls in dogs with short hair how muscle structure is different when the dog is sitting, walking or running. A puppy paws can be large in proportion to the rest of his body (and usually a sign of the size of a dog they will grow up to be).
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Tip 8: Tails A tail is not something stuck on the end of a dog above her hind legs. It is rather an extension of his spine and a crucial indicator of mood. Pay attention to how a dog usually holds its tail, if it prefers the slide left or right when she sits. Watch how hair grows and its color. tails with long hair are easier to paint than tails with short hair, which must be made accurately and in proportion to look realistic.
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Tip 9: older dogs The most obvious sign of age is a dog fur becomes white or gray around the jaw, and later the chest and front legs. Search for missing teeth and ground down, especially the canines.
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Tip 10: Give an idea of the scale If there is nothing in the painting of the dog look, how the viewer knows how big or small is it? (Not everyone is a dog lover and immediately recognize the breed!) Put something in the paint to give a sense of perspective, be it a ball, bone, trough, or the boot.Be creative in your composition, the paint does not automatically forward a dog, or human angle used to visualize a dog (ie, above).What about painting a dog from a puppy perspective?

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