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Dave
03-02-2005, 10:39 AM
Hi! :bye1:

First off……your work is fantastic! I’m amazed every time I see one of your drawings.

I’ve had very limited use of colored pencils and decided to try a couple of “kits” to get acquainted with them. I started out with your Black Dog Kit and finally finished it this week. I really enjoyed doing this kit and being a beginner, I believe it was time well spent and would highly recommend it to others. Although it's nowhere near the caliber that you drew it, I still had fun drawing it. :)

The reason I tried this particular kit is because I have a black lab mix dog in which I have a lot of photos. I have recently been informed (by another very talented artist) to try to stay away from black and grays for my dog and try using tones of blues, reds, and purples instead, for an interesting black. In the kit, you used a lot of cold, warm and french grays along with black.

My question is; how do you give depth to your black areas today?

Thanks,
Dave

Gemma
03-02-2005, 01:13 PM
I follow pretty much the same process I did in the kit. I believe that there are good times to use black. I do however add maybe an under color to help the black become rich and not dull. I have always had a lot of success in using black on black fur but I do incorporate other colors as well.

I'm glad you enjoyed my kit and Thank for your nice compliments!
Gemma
:D

Jomitzi
03-03-2005, 05:07 AM
I also did your black dog kit and found it extremeley helpful too. I ended up doing a Rottie commission and it helped me with that plus I did some King Charles puppies and one was a black one and the techniques learnt in the kit helped me there too. Got anymore kits in the pipeline??? :)
Jo

Gemma
03-03-2005, 02:52 PM
I also did your black dog kit and found it extremeley helpful too. I ended up doing a Rottie commission and it helped me with that plus I did some King Charles puppies and one was a black one and the techniques learnt in the kit helped me there too. Got anymore kits in the pipeline??? :)
Jo

Fantastic Jo,,,,,,,,,, these came out really good. I'm so glad to hear that people are using the black dog kit!:D :D

Gemma