Painting Dog Portrait Illustration in Procreate

1. Introduction: Creating dog portraits is a rewarding way to celebrate a beloved pet's unique personality and charm. In this class, I will take you through my step by step process for painting a dog portrait using watercolors in Procreate. Hi, I'm Eva Michaels, and I'm full time illustrator. Before we dive in into painting, we will cover essential preparation steps like choosing references, planning your composition, and deciding how to stylize your portrait. We will also explore practice sketches and what elements to include in the final artwork. Additionally, we will talk about color palettes to help you decide on the best color combinations for your portrait, ensuring harmony and impact. As a project, you can create one or more pet portraits and get inspired by the variety of photo references I will be sharing during the class, or you can use your own dog as your model for the illustration. And even if you're a beginner and new to procreate, don't worry. I will take you step by step through the process. So you can end up with a lovely pet portrait. So without further ado, let's start and see you in the class. 2. Preparation: In this lesson, I will guide you through choosing your photo references, planning your composition, and setting up the canvas. So for this class, I have a collection of some photo references from some stock sides and pictures from some of my friends' dogs. So for example, this one, you can see this photo reference is quite nice because we have the personality of the pup, and then we have also some nice elements around. So it's green. We have some flowers, and the pup is smiling, which is quite nice. So try to choose high quality photo reference that clearly shows the dog's features and personality. So when the photo is in better quality, you can also see some reflections in the eye of the dog and other fur details. So but let's not go to the details just yet. So try to choose high quality photo, which you can also crop to prepare your composition. Now, here is another photo reference where we don't clearly see all the features of the dog. So for example, with a reference from a client like this, you would need to maybe highlight some shadows and lower the contrast in this reference. And if you would need to work with photo like this, one of the main tips is to crop your reference, so the dog is the main focus of your portrait. So here we would crop this part out of the portrait so you can plan the composition better and portrait or the illustration about the dog because here we are not illustrating the whole scene. Then here is another reference where you can see the layout is horizontal in compared to the portrait ones that we saw before. So try to agree with your client if the portrait or the illustration of the dog should be horizontal or in a portrait layout. And after that, you can prepare the canvas for your illustration based on these requirements that you agreed with your client. So here is the canvas. And here, if I go to the Canvas setting, you can go to the Canvas information and dimensions and set up your pixel width and height, or you can set different sizes in inches, and I recommend higher DPI, so you can work with more details. So here is a quick summary. So try to choose the right photo reference. So try to request or find the right photo reference, which is a high quality reference that clearly shows the features of the dog and the personality. Then prepare the canvas which fits the requirement from the client or your personal plan, which is the portrait or a landscape version of the canvas and set up the pixels and the size and the ratio of the canvas from the start so you don't have to redo things later. Then also play the focus of your illustration or the portrait, so the dog is in the center of the attention of the viewer so you don't have too much unnecessary negative space in the portrait. Alright, now let's do some sketches. 3. Drawing Practice: In this lesson, I will share with you my tips and approach to quick practice sketches to help you achieve the dog stylization that you envision. And before you start painting a full detailed illustration, I always suggest that you warm up with some sketches. They can be more detailed or more rough sketches, based on your references, either of the dog that you are planning to illustrate or maybe some other dogs to figure out the proportions and stylization of the dog that you want to sketch. So here is one of the sketches that I created before, and this sketch is not exactly how this references, but I wanted to bring a little bit more personality to the dog, so you can see the happiness of running in the meadow. So let me import another image, so we can do a quick practice sketch. Alright, so here we have a labrador, and I will take some softer brush. You can use other brush that you like, but I like to combine more softer brush for the initial sketch and then brush with more hard edges so I can have more definition on the sketch. So here we brush data, yes, the number eight from my sketching set, which you can get if you are interested in trying out new brushes. So here, I would just look at the initial composition of the dog. As I mentioned, try to crop the composition, so the dog is center of the attention, and you can always include some of the thematic elements. So here, I can make the brush a little bit bigger, and I'm looking at a dog that it has more triangle composition. So we have the head, and the rest of the body is in this part. So as you can see, I'm starting with a triangle. So don't be afraid to just sketch with the basic shapes. To practice the first shapes that you want to use, and then you can push the proportions if you want to bring more stylization. So as you can see, I started on the same layer, so I need to cut this out so I can reduce the opacity of this rough sketch, and then I can bring another layer just to create a little bit more defined sketch. So here I can zoom in. This will be the nozzle, the mouth of the dog. And as you can see, I'm really using simple shapes. So placement of the eyes, make sure that they are kind of in the same distance from the nose. Then we have the chest and the legs are kind of like hidden. So here you can notice that the legs are actually placed like this, but to push the proportions, you can try to place them more close next to each other. If you are not going for a photorealistic sketch, or the representation of the dog, because we have, of course, many different styles, how you can create these portraits and illustrations of the animals. So I would reduce this rough sketch. And now I will create a new layer, and I will take the brush with more hard edge, as I mentioned before. And now I can emphasize some of the shapes. So here, I can make the chest more pronounced. Then we have those legs here. Make sure that you notice where the paws are. Even though on this, we don't see that that well. So that's why I was mentioning, try to request maybe more photos from the dog owner or if you are drawing your own dog, try to find different photos so you can practice how the pause look even if you don't see them on your reference here. So here I made the chest a little bit too big, so I can remove this part, and then I can just draw the nose here, and then we have those nice eyes. So as you can see, I'm not keeping the same placement as I had on the rough sketch. And here I can emphasize the head to be a little bit more flat, even though it's not so flat. So here you can play with some of the shapes, and I'm planning to do more detailed and longer video and basically structured plan on how to do the stylization and simplification because there are so many aspects which kind of go into developing your own style and also how to basically stylize and design the shapes and everything, basically what you draw, right? So anyway, for this part, I'm just practicing to notice the shapes of the dog that I'm drawing. So here you can see I didn't do exactly the same proportions. But I think for these type of practice sketches, you can draw what you see. And the more that you draw, you notice some of the details that you would change. So here, the same on this one, you can emphasize the shadow. So try to notice where the shadows are on the reference already when you are doing these practice sketches because that would help you when you are doing the colored version. And maybe here we can add a tail, even though we don't see it. Here I would decide to exaggerate the nose. Maybe you can make the nose much bigger. You can also move around some of the elements if you want to adjust some of the proportions. For example, in your sketches, you don't have to redraw the whole thing, but you can test out a little bit different proportions just by moving parts of your illustration. And of course, it's good to try and practice to draw things more times. But like this, you can also notice what would you change after drawing. All right, so you can also zoom out and see what works on your sketches. So don't be afraid to stylize or abstract the dog's form a little bit more, even though this is pretty close to reality in proportions, but it's not photorealistic interpretation of the reference. So basically, stylization and simplification can range from slight exaggeration of the features to full almost like a cubist or surrealistic interpretations depending on your artistic vision. So try to practice quick sketches to match the stylization, what you want to achieve, maybe a little bit bigger nose or unexpected colors or edding, tail or ears in different positions. Alright, let's move on to the next part. 4. How to Plan Colors: In this lesson, I will share with you ideas on how to explore more color combinations for your pet portraits. So imagine this is a photo reference you might get from a client, or maybe it's just one that you have of your own dog. The dog is super cute, but the photo itself might not have very exciting color palette. So let me show you how you can get inspired by other photo references and their color palettes. So I think this is a great photo reference, and here you can see we have colored background. You can test out and mark down some of these colors which might work for your portrait from photo references without actually drawing all the details, and it's very tempting to go to more details. So maybe let me take a different brush. A little bit bigger and fluid brush. So you can sample the color from the canvas, as you know, but if I want to do that here, it doesn't work the same way. So I can still sample the color from the photo reference with using my finger and tap and hold function. To explore color combinations for the pet portrait quickly, you can just sample a few colors from the photo reference. So for example, if I have very dark values, and then they are brownish tones, and this pink works quite well with all of these colors. It works great as a background tone. Limiting your colors like this ensures the pet stands out while still harmonizing nicely with the background. It's a quick and effective way to make the portrait pop. And using a limited color palette really brings out the pet features like their fur, their markings or their eyes without overcomplicating the portrait with too many colors. Here you can play around and see how the background tone would work with all the colors that you want to use and if they would stand out against this background. So all of these three colors would stand out nicely. For example, if you decide to go for just gray background, would blend too much together. Let's try a different photo reference. I think this is a great photo reference, and I think this yellow background works so well. If you are working with dark colors, and you can create obviously different shades within the coat of the dog, right? So you can notice that it's not only black. So we have different shades of black. So you can use different colors for these lighter tones, and then we have obviously white, but it's a little bit of white. So it's not pure white. And you can see it here. So it's more in these colder tones, and that's why I think this yellow background works so well because it kind of feels very warm next to this dark dog. And here we have another example of a dark dog. And we have very dark shades of black. But then we also have some of these brownish color tones. And then you can use some of these off white shades. But overall, it's very dark pop. So here you can test out how the background would look with more colors. So here you have a little bit of this beige that wouldn't work great with brown. Here we have, again, like this off pink and some of these reddish tones. So this red background works great with the black tones. So here we have a lot of dark shades. So you can just try the dark shades next to all of these colors and just see if that works for your portrait. So I think this would work quite nicely. Let me show you a different photo reference. Here we have even more extreme color combinations, so it pops even more. So the dark color is kind of very dominant in this portrait. We have a little bit of brown in it as well. And then we have this very saturated red in combination with white. So it's kind of like a striking pet portrait. But what I would suggest if you are painting something like this here, that you emphasize actually the eye here because the eye doesn't have such a high contrast, and the focus is more here on the shirt. So I would suggest to tone down some of the contrast here and you bring the attention more to the face of the dog. Alright, so this is about planning the colors of your illustration by just testing the color combination and what works together before you dive in into painting the whole illustration. So try the color combinations that you like, so you don't spend time on something that it doesn't work or you don't like. And the colors you choose also lets you set the mood. For example, warm color tones for a golden retriever, or a bright yellow or red background for dark fur dogs. Plus, it keeps everything cohesive, especially if the portrait is going into a specific space. So always consider limited color palette for your color combinations in the pet portraits. Alright, let's move on to the next part. 5. Plan the Colors: In this lesson, I will share with you my tips on creating color palettes and color combinations. Alright. So here I have a few more examples of different dogs, and here I was sketching Shiba Inu and I want to point out some of the colors. So when you're painting dog portraits, first, I suggest you to select limited amount of colors. So for example, on this one, we have more brownish tones and just to mark these colors, I would suggest something which has maybe some texture, so you have more fun blocking the colors or basically just choose any brush that you like. And what I wanted to mention here is that the limitation of this color palette is that I chose these warmer brown tones. So you can see it's this, like, reddish brown tone, and I combine it with different shades of these warmer colors. You can see there is not such a huge variety of colors here, but this is the limitation that I worked with in this portrait. So it was mostly this brownish, reddish color version of the Shiba Iuscat. And all of these colors are in the realm of this brownish tone. So you can see this is very limited color palette, and you can combine it with some other colors. Me import reference photo so I can show you what I mean and where I got the inspiration. For example, on this one, you can see these warm color tones, and these are a little bit more orange. So if you decide to go for more orange tones, you can combine it with some of the complimentary colors on the opposite spectrum, and you can choose complimentary by tapping here. And you can see that with the orange and warm color tones, if you go to the other side of the wheel, you will have these blue color tones. So you can see on this photo that is very nicely combined with RDD's bluish flowers, which is perfect combination with this type of coat of the dog. So if you want to add elements, you can think about these color values. So more yellowy colors you would use here, you can go maybe for more purple colors on the other side of the wheel and you can also move these around the wheel. So these sliders will help you establish where are the complimentary colors. In this case, I quite like those purply tones, and that doesn't mean that you have to go to these green tones. You can stay in these warmer colors, and you can still use complimentary, limited color palette and more purply or less saturated colors because it still creates this nice contrast. And here you can see it works very well with these green tones. But if I choose split complimentary color, so you will have one on this side and two on this side, that means you are in these blue tones and you have the more saturated, almost turquoise. This would be very bright and you want the pup to stand out. What I would do or suggest here is to go to less saturated green tones. If we go back to some of our colors here, I would choose green, which is less saturated, as I mentioned. Because already here, this green which is not so saturated, it still takes the attention from the dog. Here, I would suggest that you focus all the bright colors on the dog and then for these other colors, try to make them less saturated. And you can help the pop to stand out. Next to these orange colors, these color combinations still work. So try to create limited color palette which fits the best the dog that you are painting by simplifying this whole painting process and selection of the colors by choosing the colors that work well together and bring the attention to the pop itself because that's main part of your painting and try to create this color harmony. 6. Values, Light and Shadow: In this lesson, we will explore noticing values, light and shadow in your photo references. All right. And now let's quickly talk about shadows and light. So basically, try to see and map out the values which are on your reference photo. So, for example, as you can see, the coat of the dog is pretty dark here. So try to notice where are the darkest parts and the lightest parts on your reference. So basically, you are mapping out the light and shadow areas on the dog to create a sense of form, even when you are stylizing. So you will try to notice that on this dog, I have the darkest parts around the belly because they are more in the shadow. So it's definitely this part compared to the top part of the dog. So we have some shadows under the chin, and then we have the lighter parts kind of on the top part of the dog. So try to map out some of these colors early in the process. So you can notice the transitions how you can build the colors within your illustration. So this is keeping it very simple from the start to establish the correct value range, to make the portrait field more realistic, and then you can also play with more unrealistic colors for the shadows and for the light. But in order to play with some of the extra colors, you need to establish the values first. But we will take it step by step in the painting process. But this is something to think about to practice or to plan before you go to more detailed painting. Try to notice the shadow areas and the areas in light. All right. Let's look at some other detail that you can think of before diving into more detailed painting. 7. Make it More Interesting: And after we talked about some of the background colors, let's talk about some of the other elements that you can plan into your illustration. So one of the elements that you can add to your pet portraits are the seasonal elements, for example. So on this reference, you can see these nice pumpkins. So I can include these bigger elements into the illustration. And I can plan with the composition which would fit with the illustration better. So I can add some of these pumpkins here on the bottom. And just add some of the other details into the illustration here, you would of course shade them and add all the details because right now they still look more like apples, you can just add some of these pumpkin definition details, but this is still just very rough sketch. And then of course, you can add some of the environment into the illustration and see if that works with your packed portrait. So here, I can paint under the sketch. So it depends if you are creating illustration with the outlines or realistic without outlines. So here I can just quickly add some color to our pup. So I quickly edit more color shades. What I also wanted to mention here that you can add other elements. So for example, these seasonal elements can be just in the bottom part, but you can also just add maybe falling leaves if it is maybe autumn. So you can add some of these floating elements into your portrait. So maybe some of these floating elements are also covering the portrait, and this can be pretty cute. Maybe you can also have the dog looking up. You can also maybe add colorful confetti into your illustration. So if you want to kind of add celebration, like, very funky portrait, so you can play around with some of these elements. I can add also some other type confetti, maybe like these longer ones. You can play around with different shapes that you can add to your portrait illustration. Then you can also remove some of these lines and play around with different values. These are some of the elements that you can add. So let me quickly create a summary for you. So think about the background color early in the process. So try to plan the background colors or the colors around the dog that you are drawing or other pet. Work well together to help the animal stand out in your illustration. Then think about the elements that you can add around the dog. Whether those are seasonal touches like autumn leaves, maybe pumpkins for the Halloween time or spring flowers, you can add winter snow which is falling around the dog or maybe some small details from a summer beach scene. So try to think, like, what are the seasonal touches, but you can also add some of the personal items like maybe dog's favorite toy or their favorite blanket or maybe the iconic lease or a sweater of the dog. Basically, you are adding a little bit of storytelling. All right. Now let's move on to the next part. 8. Project Illustration: And in this video, we will begin the process of your project illustration. And I will walk you through the entire process, and we will be using the sausage dog as inspiration for our project illustration. But I also prepare two other breeds for more inspiration for your own pet portrait. So I will start sketching with simple shapes, and I'm using also references, and using simple shapes helps you to create accurate proportions or at least more accurate than just drawing right away and focusing on details. And of course, this comes with practice. So more you draw, the less you can focus on simple shapes and find the process for drawing that fits you the best. Now I reduce the opacity of the first sketch, and I will just redefine the shape that I originally sketched before I start drawing. And if you're wondering, I was sketching with pencil brush, number two, and sometimes I like to sketch with number one or eight, so I try to alternate which sketching brushes I use. Now I reduce the opacity of the sketch, and now I will start adding color, and it's tilted because I want to add more dogs in the composition. Now I will take the brush number 18, which is more grainy wash, and I will start building the basic colors. And you can work with different opacity of this brush by layering the color, starting from the lighter and building more layers to become darker. So I will take a brown color. And I will start filling in the areas based on the sketch, and I am not lifting the pencil because like that, I can just build more layers. Now after I sketched one layer, I lifted the pencil and now I will draw another layer. And don't worry, we will blend it later on. So now the dark spot will be here in the corner. So I every time lift the pencil and I create something like a rainbow here. Now I will do the same on the other side. And on this side, I have the shadow here on the left, closer to the head, and I'll just build up the shadow like this. And now I will draw the head. This part will be orange, so I'll just draw the top part of the face. And I can also cover the ice because unlike traditional media, we can add the lighter areas also later on. So you don't have to leave the white spaces the same way as you would do with traditional watercolors. But I think it's nice way to do it as well if you want to play with the traditional feel of creating actual watercolors. Now, this can still look kind of strange, but don't worry. We'll fix everything. So now I will create another shape here of the darker color. And the same goes here and in the middle here. Then I will add another shape here and then the nose, and then I will add another layer for the nose the same way. And now I will fill the body as well. The legs will be more that beige orange color. So I am not feeling those just yet, so I'm keeping that white for now. And now I will build more of these shapes based on the shadows. Now I will go to the smudge tool and from the smudges, I will take one of the textured smudges, the number 43, and then I will blend in some of these areas on the edges. You see here that the opacity or the strength of the blender tool is a little bit lower. Now let's take beige orange color with the same brush number 18, I will fill these areas around the face. And I will add more layers to the right side because that's where the shadow on the face of the dog is. And then I will add some of that color here on the pose, and now I will blend it as well. But I want to still keep some of the watercolor feel here as well. So I'm not blending it completely, but it's already starting to look quite cute. So let me turn on the reference so we can see it also from the distance. And now I will take a different brush. I will take brush number 16, so I can add some details. And I will create those details on a separate layer, and I will take darker color so I can define these details easier. And you can leave and paint with this brush with multiple strokes, and it will help you also blend the colors a little bit more. And I will also define the eyes more I'm always keeping an eye here on the smaller visual to see if the shapes are okay. And I'm using kind of more almond shapes for the eyes and adding some reflection. And we have the dark pupil in the eye, and the area around the eye is also quite dark because we don't see much of the white usually with dog eyes. I will define also details on the nose. And I will also add the mouth. And now I will go back to the orange color, and I need to add the spots above the eyes, and I can just delete parts, and I can delete it with the brush number 30. And then I can also paint with the brush number 30 because that one has more opacity and more rough edge, which is also quite nice. And now I can add more color here to the side so you can fill in the shapes. With this more opaque brush after you have the base ready. Now I will go back to the brush number 16, and I will add more of the shadow areas and define the pop more. Now I will go to brush number 30, and I will take a lighter purple and I will add some nice light purple hues to the sketch. Because I think it's quite nice to add more vibrant colors to these type of concepts because the dogs are super cute, and I think you can always add some unexpected colors to your sketches. And now I will also add some dark brown to the more grayish colors that I had at the beginning, and I'm adding these colors only to the areas where I had the darkest values. Now when I'm happy with more colors, I can blend it together again with the brush number 43. And I will take the brush number 16 again, and I will add some darker areas to emphasize the details and also the eyes. You can create a new layer, and with the brush number 18, you can do another pass on the whole body if you feel like that it's still quite light and you want to build up more color. And you can do it on a separate layer so you have more control over the darkness of that layer, so you can kind of adjust it and reduce the opacity if you feel like it's maybe too dark. So now I will reduce the opacity a little bit and I will merge the layer and on a separate layer, I will take the watercolor splitter brushes, and I quite like the brush number five, and I will take one of the colors on the canvas, and I'll just add few splitters. So maybe smaller ones, and it depends on your pressure. So the splatters adjust so you can tap or you can hold and then create more splitters. And that's why you can do them on a separate layer. So you can always adjust and go back if you want to have more subtle look or more stronger and bigger splatters. And I will do one more layer with details in the eyes. So I will go back to the watercolors and brush number 16, and I will take white color, and I will create highlights in the eyes. And I will lighten some areas with a light purple color. So around the eyes, and I will take the brush number 11, and I will add a few details and approximately with a brush size like eight. And then I can add also the whiskers. Which I think they add quite nice detail. Then you have them on a separate layer, so you can adjust the opacity if you want to. And I can also add few little like hair strands, so the fur is kind of like sticking out. Alright, I think this is pretty cute, and now I will add some flowers and some other dogs using the same technique. B Right. And at the end, I edit some leaves, some flowers, and on a separate layer, I edit few splitters with a watercolor splatter brush as just last detail for fun and to fill the composition. 9. Round Composition: Alright, so as you saw, I had the composition with three pups. So that's one of the examples how you can combine more dogs into one composition, maybe for one client, if they have three dogs. If you don't want to do the traditional three dogs sitting next to each other. So this is a little bit more creative or artistic or whatever word you want to use. And now I want to show you how you can rearrange some of these flowers because as we look at some of the references, we had this reference before. So this is also duck tallingRtriever, and it's in a very nice pose. So you would be able also to create such a beautiful scene with this pose exactly as it is. But as we can create different compositions, why not? So here I'm selecting two layers with the flowers and the leaves. I can keep them separate like this. Then I can use the selection tool, and then I can just move some of these flowers closer to the dog. So kind of frame the dog with nice flowers. I can move them a little bit lower. And then in this case, I can maybe even hide some of these flowers and the splitters. So I can keep two of them as a reference. And I think this would be quite enough, so I can bring it forward. So I think this is quite nice, just to work as a composition. And then I can add some of the smaller flowers just around so we can have some of the flowers here as well. These would be a little bit bigger. Let's make them slightly larger and then we can add some of these leaves. The composition can work here as well like this. So here, I think we can add another flower and you can try a different color as well. So maybe some of these smaller flowers in different color can work quite well. And then you can combine. So we can add maybe some ferns here, keeping the illustration quite loose and try to alternate the elements so they are not the same. So for example, here, I can see that the composition would be a little bit nicer if I move some of the elements a little bit lower, so we can balance the composition like this. We have a round composition here. And as I said, you can do all of these in the sketching phase. So you don't have to rearrange elements like this. But if you prefer playing directly with color, this is also quite fun, I think. So you can try to create different elements like these. So you can find references for foliage and make these fun details. So here I can also add different details with a more bristly brush. For example, on the leaves, So trying to add different details. So we have some of the lines and some of the other detailing brushes that you can use. So for example, here for the middle part, I can add some of the rougher brush strokes just to add the definition. But you always need to check so this doesn't take too much attention from the dog that you have in the illustration. So I think here there is not too much contrast, so I think that's still quite right. Here, maybe I can add actually yellow flour, which kind of complements the coat. So it will be quite similar, but maybe not exactly the same. Now, when I tested this color, I think a little bit brighter yellow. It's better in this composition. But I don't want to add too much complexity. So I'm making these yellow flowers smaller so they don't take too much attention from the dog. So we can add some of the purple ones just to repeat those colors within our composition. So I'm always looking into this smaller version if everything works together. So now I will just add a few more details and move things around and see how they work. And as I mentioned before, you can plan the composition and placement of some of these elements way ahead in the sketching stage, or if you prefer playing with colors and shapes to figure out the composition, you can use this approach. So I will catch up with you in a second. When I finish adding more flowers and moving around some of these details. All right. So I will call this illustration done, and I moved around some of the flowers in the composition, as you can see, and I think some of the bigger flowers work best in this placement because the face of the dog is tilted this way. So you can test out different placement of bigger and smaller flowers depending how the face of the dog is positioned. So for example, when it's looking towards you, you can try placing maybe one bigger flower here and one smaller here. Or kind of creating this curve form of flowers or just test out where it works the best. So and then there is the fun part when you get to see the whole portrait finished and you are happy with everything. And then you send the finished portrait to your customer, and you ask for the approval from your customer. And then maybe you can implement some final tweaks depending how you agreed with your customer, how many feedback loops you want to include. For example, you can agree on a feedback loop when you send the sketch, and then you can test out some of these tweaks and loops later on. So I hope that you enjoyed this process, and I really like how the flowers and colors work together. It's very vibrant and spring fill portrait. And like this, you can test out the different looks of the portraits that you want to implement. So maybe you kind of work more with striking colors and striking background. And in that case, maybe you want to tone down some of the colors of the flowers. But because I have very light background, all of these fresh colors work well together. So it really depends on the color combination, the pose of the dog, and the details that you plan in your portrait paintings. So it's always fun to create based on the personality of the dog and all of that that you can implement. So I hope that you really enjoyed creating your portrait. And if you create different portraits inspired by this class, I would love to see them. So please share them as a project or tag me on the social media so I can share your projects with others.