Border Terrier Pet Portrait in Soft Pastel - Timelapse

A timelapse showing the build up of my border terrier soft pastel portrait. For longer tutorials from this piece and others, visit my Patreon channel / emmacolbertart .
I go into much more detail on the leather sofa and the blanket in particular. Both elements I often have to paint in my portraits.
Materials used and where to buy them:
Unison pastels:
www.jacksonsar...
Faber Castell Pastel pencils:
www.jacksonsar...
Velour Pastel Paper
www.jacksonsar...
For commissions and print sales visit me on www.emmacolber....
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[@hardy5288]

A lovely job, as always.

[@Vet4FallujahCJ]

Aside from watching your insane talent, I just love hearing that accent of yours saying "Paper and Portrait" I enjoy watching these drawing develop.

[@arthurdavies-patrick7523]

Perfect really enjoyable to see you work thank you Arthur

[@claudiamuller2458]

Fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😍

[@jillwhatley994]

Wow! That leather looks AMAZING EMMA❤️

[@gloriapinskerportraits4801]

I love the way you focus the attention on the dog's head and go more soft-focus on the rest. I dislike when artwork has all hard edges and everything has the same amount of focus. You see this a lot in hyper/photo realism. It is not the way we see things in nature. Hard and soft edges working together in a painting make it really beautiful and artistic.

[@mjpete27]

Such a lovely holiday gift! Thank you. I hope your Patreon grows even more as it is quite rewarding and well worth the support fees, I truly believe that as you get more support there we will see more overflow on KZbin! I am glad I am still able to support you every month even though not at the highest tier! I encourage everyone who wants to learn from a marvelous teacher to go give Emma some support on Patreon too!

[@dontheroof]

Another gem Emma thanks for sharing on KZbin.

[@lynnrushton7458]

Beautiful as always Emma x

[@MiroslavSunjkic]

Great job, both on your subject and the background!

[@user-iq5lv4zm9c]

Really beautiful work!!

[@chrisseydittus8574]

Amazing work!!

[@jensphotographyandart3125]

Beautiful Dog and beautiful work im local to yourself but i cant draw very well so cant do very much in soft pastel and cant afford to pay for tutorials i would love to be abke to do a pet portrait of my dog who passed away two years ago xx

[@LucaPiccoloSandri]

🐾 wonderful 💕

[@jamesholder13]

Awesome!

[@shamsart]

Amazing

[@zalexia27]

do you use a contour drawing ?

[@EmmaColbertArt]

Not sure what you mean by contour drawing. But I normally either use a grid to sketch out (normally if it's a portrait) or I freehand (wildlife, landscape etc) Then I transfer this sketch onto my pastel surface. That's what you see at the start of most of my videos.

[@zalexia27]

a contour drawing is just a drawing that well contours what you are drawing. i learned that in art school. but then again i'm old @@EmmaColbertArt