A friend's dog died recently and we exchanged some old photos, one of which had him, his dog and my dog - Nomi in Provincetown. I had a better copy of the photo and sent it to my friend but immediately missed my dog who died in 2008 and I think of every day still. He was off to the side in the photo and partially obscured by my friend's arm and leg but his expressions as so wonderful I wanted to draw it. I didn't do enough drawings and photos of him ( never enough) partly because he was around before the digital photo era and taking photos was much more complicated and expensive.
Drawn in Procreate over 10 days when I had time to focus on his little happy face.
4 comments:
Aww, very cute. Lots of great and eye-bending detail. Never got to meet him, just the one after. There's probably a lot of money to be made in pet portraits, but I don't know if you'd be happy doing them? Just saying. Well done!
I have been paid to do a couple. I do not like the ones I have done that I have not taken the reference photos myself. The clients were fine with the results, though. Pen and ink style pet portraits could be my niche. Maybe I should mention that on my Instagram?I think I charged 50 - 100$ when I did the last commissions.
You would be selling yourself WAY short with prices like that, especially if you're doing work like the above. Try 4x that.
Well I won't agar with you. Pricing is yet another reason I do so poorly with my work. I can't reason why anyone would pay me, a nobody in art, so much money. I should have charged more for my book too. I have sold 11 copies, that's 11 more than any of the other books though!
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