I practiced this painting method on a digital platform using pastel brushes. I feel like I unable to control the half tone and dark half tone. in most cases, the blending between the light and shadow families is flat. But I enjoyed completing this painting.

Shadow and muzzle adjusted.

My photo submission is double uploading. Sorry about that. ???

I tried without a sketch underneath, just squinting and drawing shadows. I tried not to lighten up the shadows too much.

Had a lot of fun doing this. I like to draw first on newsprint and then transfer the drawing to the canvas (this time masonite board).

I enjoyed practicing for edges using my finger. I wished I had a better surface. I used a canvas pad. It sucked the paint so fast and not much paint left for rubbing. But I did my best. Putting down a half tone was difficult process. I was amazed to watch how you painted. I am learning a lot. Thank you.

Decided to have fun and did this little gouache study. At this point at did no blending at all. Let's now have double fun and start using some "water glazing" to soften some of those sharp edges. I might have gone a bit all over the place with the colors here...

Loved trying this out!

I feel that the half tone chroma is too low on the second image. It seems like it diminishes a bit after a while on the canvas board. I’m getting a lot out of this course Morgan, thank you so much!