How to Draw and Paint a Word Nerd Dog

HOW TO PAINT IN WATERCOLOUR

That is — a corgi dog novelist at work

This is a pencil drawing of me (well — it would be me, if I were a corgi) — angsting over which word to use. I can spend a lot of time trying to find exactly the word I want.

Having spent a lot of time finding exactly the right word, and I look as if I might have found it in the above drawing — which is the pen version of the pencil original, with the pencil rubbed out — then I’ll no doubt change that word later …

And, because I was still considering that word, I got carried away with the pen and put in some shading with the pen rather than relying solely on the painting of the picture — it’s just another way of getting shade, and therefore ‘form’, into a picture. It will actually make the painting of the picture easier because the shading is already there.

Shading can go in anywhere that you think about light being blocked by something, usually by the item itself. So it’s safe to shade the bottom of the ball, and the bottom of the bone. Just decide where the light is coming from and shade where the light is blocked.

The three pictures above show where I’ve coloured-in with watercolour pencils and then applied water to the pencil and mixed the colours on the paper.

The first pictures look yellowy and the final one does not, because all of the pictures in this article were photographed except for the final one which was scanned.

Yep — this doggo is still angsting about using the right word.

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