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Published: 2009-02-18 05:05:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 3500; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 0
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A mother cheetah with her cub cuddling up next to her.14x11 bristol vellum. I've lost total track of time spent on this drawing. I spent most of sunday at work finishing it, so I'd say about 12 to 15 hours. Maybe more.
I'm about 95% happy with the drawing, so I haven't given it a coat of fixatif. The problem is that it seems unfinished to me, but I can't tell what I need to fix. Ugh.
Comments are always welcome.
**** Update ****
I went back and evened out the shadows, added detail to the cub, and made some changes to the background. I'm very happy with it now. A big thank you goes out to all who gave me their input.
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Comments: 34
Cool!! I think you used the same image reference I did to make this painting [link]
looks great. I wish I had put detail into the mother's eye like you did. It looks a lot better.
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I really like it. My one suggestion, and maybe that 5% you are missing, might be to add a little sparkle to the mother's eye, and possibly their noses as well. I know, the light is probably not really hitting it that way, but that's what art is all about- making it your own!
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Hmmm. I'll have to do it digitally to see if I like it first. I think my biggest problem is that I compare all my animal pictures to my Mother and Pup drawing. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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I just checked out Mother and Pup. It is an excellent drawing, though you have a very different light situation going on there, and the mother seems to be looking away from the light. I understand the desire to compare your art with your best pieces, but you have to take risks to make them better! Experimenting with it, digitally or otherwise, sounds like a good idea!
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Thank you very, very much for you advice and the encouragement. I'm trying to get away from just trying to reproduce a photo as is. It's a bit of a struggle, but I'm getting there. Maybe one day my colored pencil drawings will be as great as yours are.
Thank you again.
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I think that they will - keep up the good work!
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Hi! You are featured in my new journal [link] ...hope you don't mind!
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I definitely don't mind.
Thank you very, very much.
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Ah! Now I have nothing to complain about. 
It's even lovlier than it was before, if that's possible.
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Thank you.
My girlfriend thought so as well, so it must be possible.
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You're welcome! 
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OMG! It's sooo adorable!
Just the background needs a little improvement... If you improve that, it will look even better!
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Very nice job. I looove it.
The mother and cub both look practically perfect, like scheherazadenerai said, maybe a little more detail on the background would improve it.
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Very good detail on the mother - maybe you could try more detail in the background? I love how you got white highlights in the fur - that's so hard to do IMO
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Thank you.
I'm making some changes to the drawing. I'm fixing the shadows a bit. I'm going to leave the background blurry though. I don't want it to take any of the focus from the two cheetahs.
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I love it! 
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It looks gorgeous. The only thing that really jumps out at me (that looks not-quite-right) is the dark bit on the very edge of the cub's head. It's not overly worrying, but I just thought I would mention it. I know it's probably on the reference like that, but...yeah.
Anyway, it is still a very gorgeous drawing and I love it to pieces.
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The dark strip is the shadow from the mother, but it didn't match the shadows tone for the rest of the drawing. I worked on the drawing, darkening the shadows a bit everywhere else on the drawing and bringing the highlights up more. I haven't scanned it yet though. I'm going to make sure I didn't miss anything while I'm here at work.
Thanks for the help, and the compliment.
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Yeah, I thought it was, it just looked a little out of place whilst the rest of the drawing was relatively lighter.
Awesome, I'll look forward to seeing the updated version!
You're very welcome.
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