Here are a few shots of the gradual progress I've made on this current drawing. It's a picture of 3 bucks that my client and his son killed last year in South Texas. He wanted a drawing of all 3 together in a South Texas Brush Country environment. This is what I came up with. I'm gonna call it "South Texas Border Crossing".
Started with the first buck jumping the fence.
Well, I started with just a faint sketch outline of where things would be laid out, then worked on the jumping buck, and then on the next buck that is crawling under the fence.
Then moved on to the third buck that's running toward the fence.
Worked on some of the background next. Man, I don't know if I'll ever draw a barbed wire fence in bright sunlight again. Leaving the white fence wire while drawing grass and brush behind the fence is a chore. Everything in South Texas, including the fence, has stickers on it. Lots of detail to try to draw.
More thorny brush....
More brush, but less detail as we go back into the scene. Makes it a lot faster going. Still a LOT of stuff to draw in and then I'll add shadows and grass and such.
Oh, and the right back leg of the crawling buck had been bugging me. It didn't look right the way I had it. There is a bunch of grass in front of that leg in the reference photo that I'm working from for that buck. I thought the leg was going straight down, but it didn't look like there was that much room under the fence for that. Finally, I looked more closely at the photo, and I saw his hock sticking up behind his rump. AHA! That's where his leg should be! Fixed that.
That's all I got so far.
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