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Published: 2016-06-10 09:16:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 573; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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Description A portrait of Hasani, my favourite African Painted Dog from Perth Zoo (Western Australia). I'm observing the pack as my Honours project looking at their social behaviour, in particular how they deal with conflict and construct and maintain their dominance hierarchies.

Done with Prismacolors on 260gsm Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper. The whiskers were done with a brilliant technique called the Indentation Method that I found. It's brilliant. I ended up using two different tools; the end of a nail file for the thick whiskers, and the metal tip of my mechanical pencil (lead retracted, of course!) for the thin ones. Go check it out!

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Comments: 8

LisaPannek [2016-06-22 16:46:09 +0000 UTC]

Nice drawing and expression!
Fur is not my speciality, but when I have to draw light hair like whiskers, I make this "identation method" with a sharp white pencil (Polychromos from Faber-Castell). The benefit is that there is a slice of colour you can't easily paint over AND you have a dent, too. I often use this technique on feather quills and feather highlights.

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CSIllustrator In reply to LisaPannek [2016-07-08 12:20:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! And thanks also for the tip, that sounds very useful.Β Great idea!Β 

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xXScaley-MuffinzXx [2016-06-17 09:35:43 +0000 UTC]

Goodness, the intense improvement in this drawing compared to your previous one is INCREDIBLE, I love the realism here! The anatomy and blending of colours are so accurately drawn. I love using coloured pencils myself, but attempting to draw realistically like this while using them would take me up to a week just to do hahah. xD I envy your patience!
Amazing work, as always Siqeja. You never cease to amaze me~

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CSIllustrator In reply to xXScaley-MuffinzXx [2016-06-19 02:04:02 +0000 UTC]

Aww thank you! I found that practicing this sort of thing in graphite first before trying it out in coloured pencils made it easier. Graphite's a much softer, more blendable medium that is easier to work with I find, in the sense that it is more forgiving (read: easier to erase ). And you will get quicker with practice! Keep in mind that in a way I DID work on this over two-and-a-half weeks, since I don't really have the time to work on art full-time right now.

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xXScaley-MuffinzXx In reply to CSIllustrator [2016-06-19 14:37:55 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, thank you so much for the tip! I'm using pencils at the moment which is just so much fun, but I'm hoping to move onto more complex traditional art tools (preferably Promarkers) sometime soon too... just to add more colour into my gallery. xD
Oh fair enough! It's still beautiful nonetheless. <'3

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Venatorius [2016-06-10 12:00:46 +0000 UTC]

Looks awesome and very realistic ☺.I wish I had the patience to make my drawings as detailed and realistic as this one haha but I'm stuck with semi-realistic drawings and I'm rather satisfied with it hehe.
By the way,what is the rank of tnis particular wild dog in its pack?

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CSIllustrator In reply to Venatorius [2016-06-10 13:04:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you
Well my pack has been particularly strange, the males had a very interesting history and so are not exactly typical. In short there have been numerous (too many!) changes in alpha male position, but for most of it this guy was at the bottom, in a way. His brothers, Bwana and Kondo, were the main contenders for alpha male, but whoever was not at the time would interact with Hasani here on a more-or-less equal level, so there wasn't the normal linear pecking order; just an alpha, and two equal subordinates. I wasn't around when the males (imported) were introduced to the females (bred in our zoo), but when they first came in some of the keepers said Hasani here seemed the most dominant. At the moment he is now alpha again as there are no breeding opportunities (out of season), which is very interesting (it's not for lack of interest; I have seen him mate with the alpha female), and the other two are happy to submit. For the time being ...Β 

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Venatorius In reply to CSIllustrator [2016-06-10 13:33:54 +0000 UTC]

Hm so the situation with the African Wild Dogs in your local zoo has some parallels with the two Wild Dogs from an earlier National Geographic series titled Wildlife Diary(or something along those lines).The two wild dogs that the researchers were tracking in the series were both males and when a female was introduced,the two males seem to be taking turns with being the alpha male at first until the female has chosen which of the two males would be her mate.It was a very old series but if I remember correctly,all the wild dogs featured in the series were born in captivity but were then released into a nature reserve when they got older.

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