Continuing the sleeping dog theme

This is Cubit, or Cue for short. Cue was my replacement search dog for Keli. While Cue held great promise in temperment and drive, his legs failed him. They never quite grew to full length. The name "Cubit" comes from the ancient measurement, a cubit is about 18 inches which is how tall an adult male cattle dog should be. Ironic that Cubit never reached a cubit isn't it? Looking a Cue puts in mind a cross between a cattle dog and a pot belly pig. Nice dog, not search dog material however.

In this drawing I put the blackest black in the background and the lightest areas in the foreground. Reversed from the usual method of creating depth, but I think that the drawing still works correctly.

Turtles at the Park

Turtle pond at the discovery park in Sacramento. Conveniently located on the path from work to school on sketch book day. It was really fun using contour lines to describe the shapes of the turtle, log, water.....as you can see in the detail of the drawing below.

Old Messy Porch

Sketch of my porch when it was storage.

Spotted Whippet

When Cathleen first started to consider getting into whippets we went to the races to meet breeders and their dogs. This is a sketch of a little bitch who stayed right around where we were sitting. She kept stopping in this very pose to watch the dogs on the track.

It's a sign...

This was drawn in my sketch book for class quite some time ago and it's the first time I felt comfortable using pen and ink as a medium. Now that I look at it again I'd like to go in and rework the shadows into a real deep black to add some dimension to the background.