Animals

A new sketch of Binky the cat in pen and ink

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thomas-dalsgaard-clausen-2015-11-27c sketch of a cat in pen and ink

This is a sketch in pen and ink of a cat, that I think I’ve drawn once before, long ago! (I just confirmed – I did a drawing of Binky the cat in April) I saw some photo’s on the catowner’s blog (or does it actually belong to the cat?) – and decided to do another quick sketch. See the photo’s here.

Want to see more cats? Come see my portrait of Benji the cat  or this group portrait of three cats on my pet portrait page tclausen.net

Or just look a little around here on this blog, and you’ll find tons!

This was my 762th drawing since 9th Seeptember 2014.

Sketch of a (very) silly looking dog

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thomas-dalsgaard-clausen-2015-11-25b sketch of a silly dog

Here’s the last sketch for today – I’m tired! This one was from Reddit gets drawn like most of the others of today’s sketches. I hope you all like it.

I draw people’s pets upon request – one per day. If you’d like to put your pet in the draw, send me a photo, and I might pick you!
Free sketch of your pet

I also do pet portraits on commission – go have a look at that 🙂

Now I’m off to bed!

This was my 749th sketch since 9th September 2014

Another lounging dog – in pencil

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thomas-dalsgaard-clausen-2015-11-24a sketch of a lounging dog in pencil

All the pets I draw these days tend to hang around in very comfortable poses and positions. Here’s a drawing of a Labrador retriever looking like he’s considering something important. Or very deep. Or food related.

A few months ago, I remember thinking that I’ve somehow made a breakthrough in regards to composition and disposition of the paper. Well, I was wrong. These days, for some reason, I seem to constantly need to correct a jaw, make a nose smaller or cut off ears in order to make my sketch fit on the paper. As you see in this one, I’ve got plenty of space above the pup’s head, but the chin seems to be a little compact (and it is – the photo is not like that!).. I suppose I better start planning out my drawings a little better from the beginning.

This one was another free drawing request

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Sketch of a delightully silly dog

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thomas-dalsgaard-clausen-2015-11-23b sketch of a lounging dog

I stumbled across a blog called CocoaBean Adventures, where I found a photo of this wonderfully silly dog (Called Coco)

Cocoa’s owner didn’t request a free sketch – I did this out of my own initiative, because I once did a lot of sketches for cat/dog bloggers and had a lot of fun doing so, so I’m hoping that I could get some more requests from bloggers again!

I used to think that there were no such thing as “x being harder to draw than y” – It’s all just a question of “copying” textures, lines and shades down on paper after all. But after drawing hundreds of cats and dogs, I think that I’ve changed my mind on that one! Dogs are more difficult to get right for some reason. I think it’s do to their long noses that somehow forces the portraitist to work with perspective lines! It’s quite funny when you think of it. Anyway – getting an angle wrong on a dogs nose is much more visible than getting it wrong on a cat’s more compact facial features. That being said, I love drawing dogs. Especially in weird poses like Cocoa here!

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741th sketch since 9th September 2014.

 

A sketch of a cat in oil pastels

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oil pastel sketch of a cat

I did this sketch upon a request from @WitchetyMog on twitter. Mostly, my drawings are in pen, but I’ve got a few different art materials laying around that I don’t have the slightest idea how to use. So this one is in oil pastels! – with a little graphite thrown in. Oil pastels (and dry pastels too really) are really difficult to control in my world. In fact, you need to use special paper, and probably draw much bigger than my usual 4×6 inches – oh and then there are techniques. I just have fun with it. I’ve seen people do amazing things with pastels – and even the so-called “photo realistic” drawings, which seems like quite a feat. It’ll never be my goal, though, I’ve got a camera that can make photo-realistic paintings in 1/40th of a second. If I were do draw in pastels more often, I’d probably use it to make something more expressive (or let’s say messy!).

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Sketch of a turtle

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Here’s a turtle called Raru. A sketch requested through my free sketch page

I did another turtle drawing over a year ago. That time in pencil. I might have taken a little better care of getting her legs in the frame and all, but otherwise I think that this turtle turned out pretty good. The texture on the scales can be a little hard to render with quick pen strokes as well as the wrinkled skin on the head and feet. It could be fun to make a more thorough turtle-drawing at some point.

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