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April Full Tutorial - Rosa #12

Making a start on Rosa's beautiful face - this is a different type of technique when you're layering, as it's much more subtle than on her neck area.

The layers are fewer, and I've left gaps in between to help with the flecking of her coat.

I apologise about the audio quality in some of the this video. I'm having ...

Out and about

Visiting my framer today - I have a video I need to edit to share with you about the framing process. I have all my pieces mounted by these guys - they’re fab!! Having a quick cup of tea while he sorts out one of my pieces 😊

April full tutorial - Rosa #11

More leather and layering

April Full tutorial - Rosa #10

To this video shows the browband being created. I suggest you watch the leather focus video as well, as that will give you a really good insight into creating the detail.

Black curly fur

I know the poll I ran had white fur at the top of the list, but I’ve just finished a portrait of two little dogs with curly black fur so whilst I was in the zone I created this for you all. I need to edit it as sadly my audio has issues again, so I may need to re record the voice over, but this is a great one for getting to...

April full tutorial - Rosa #9

And this one is the forelock - again a good one to jump into if this is something you find challenging. 

Full Tutorial - Rosa #8

This part of the tutorial is purely around her ears - so if you find them tricky then just jump straight into this one :) 

April Full Tutorial - Rosa #7

finishing off the mane and the neck area - again a good one for layering and those finishing touches if you're just dipping in and out of the videos.

April Full Tutorial - Rosa #6

If you want to know more about creating realistic manes with coloured pencil then this video is a good one to jump into. Layering, blending, creating realistic looking hair. Please credit Murthagh Photography, no selling or prints I'm afraid.

Welcome :) and thank you!

Just wanted to say a really quick hi and welcome to new Patrons, and a huge thank you to those who continue to support me. I really am overwhelmed at the support I'm getting, so thank you so much. 

Don't forget I have a facebook group you can join - exclusively for Patreon members, and it is turning out to be such ...

April Full Tutorial - Rosa #5

Still working on the neck area, and also creating the leather work on the reins - intricate details, so a good one if you're wanting to create leather on a smaller scale and still get the look and feel. Please credit Murtagh Photography, please share in closed groups or your own social pages, and unfortunately I don't have pe...

April Full Tutorial - Rosa #4

Lots of layering on the neck area and the start of her mane. If you want to really get to grips with layering then this will be a good video to watch :) 

April Tutorial - Rosa #3 Leather Neck Strap

Third part of the full tutorial. Adding the leather on the neck strap.

April Full Tutorial - Rosa #2

Second part of Rosa. I'm more than happy to answer any questions about any of my videos - just message me on here and I'll get back to you :) Again please credit Murtagh Photography and this piece has limited rights - you can share with credit but no selling or prints.

April's photo

You may be all donkey'd out, but this is a photo I took a couple of years ago and thought you might like it - the brown donkey is Buttercup and the grey one, a very old lady, called Lilliana - both rescues. You are welcome to do what you want with this photo - you have full rights.

April Tutorial. Rosa #1

This is the start of the beautiful grey Rosa - I will upload full materials list and am intro video today plus all the ref photos and line drawing. This video sadly has audio issues 8 mins through 30 - there’s an annoying echo which I can’t resolve with my limited understanding of audio software. But I’m hoping it won�...

April Focus Video - Leather #4

The final part of the focus video. I have more footage of adding the rest of the horse in, and will post this later, but for now you have all the info you need for creating this gorgeous leather noseband. I hope you enjoy drawing it as much as I did! Please ensure you credit the photographer Murtagh Photography whenever you s...

April Focus Video - Leather #3

Third video in this months focus series. This is a really beautiful piece of leather to draw, gorgeous colours and you'll learn how to get great colour down smoothly, plus how to add shadows etc to make the leather look really realistic. image and line drawing to come

April Focus Video - Leather #2

The second part of this focus video. You'll see me create the lovely leather, and you'll also see me make mistakes and then rectify them - a really important lesson I believe as it's so important to know how to put things right when they don't go to plan. 

April Focus Video - Leather #1

First of four videos that total around 8 hours, so it's going to keep you busy!! Apologies at the beginning if my hand is in the way - I did move the camera angle pretty early on so don't worry too much. It's so hard getting the right angle for close up shots. Reference photo, line art and the full materials list now attached...

April tutorials

April's tutorials will be uploaded shortly :) I'm so excited about sharing them with you - you'll also be getting a spaniel paw this month and hopefully some white fur, plus a mini marketing video. Bare with me as Patreon can be a little slow on the 1st of the month, so once they've done what they need to do I can upload all ...

Leather focus video for April

This is part of the main tutorial but I’m drawing again super sized!! Means I can get all the detail in - lots of techniques just in this noseband - getting your paper super smooth with loads of layers - using white over dark colours to get the gorgeous shine, creating realistic looking stitches and metal work 😊

April’s tutorial finished

Just need to edit and upload the videos and she’ll be all yours to create 😍 focus video of the nose band is also going to be available at a4 size so we can really concentrate on the details 😍

April’s tutorial 🤩

Nearly finished!! And then I’ll edit the videos ready to upload on 1st April 😊. There are so many techniques in this one - and I’ll be doing an enlarged focus video of the leather so we can get all that gorgeous detail in 😍

White fur focus

This will be the white fur focus - and I’m going to try and get something done for April, if not it’ll be May. I taught this one on Friday and got some amazing results - I was directing rather then drawing - and it turned out fabulously. The main thing with fur/hair like this is to understand how awful it will look to beg...

April’s full tutorial

There are so many elements to April’s tutorial. Layering to create short hair, leather work, long hair and tiny details - and the focus video will be an enlarged version of the leather work so we can get all the tiny details in 😊 you can see the first layer on the neck - another 4/5 layers and it will look so different. ...

Little Lamb Sketch

Just something quick to get your pencils whizzing!! This took me half an hour, just over. There's no detail, it's just a black and a white pablo - and I've used a museum aquarell as well, but you don't have to. Images are attached, I haven't done a line art just because of time, I'll add one later if you really want one, but ...

Little extra tutorial for you all 😊

I’m all canine’d out from two days of intensive teaching - my goodness did they work hard!!! So I thought instead of jumping into my next big commission which will also be the grey horse tutorial for May - I’m going to do a little quick drawing of the lamb - and you can have on all the tiers as a tutorial - but a sketch...

Eeyore #14

Last one!!

Eeyore #13

Neck