I often see pet artists tell people how to take a photo of your pet to get the best portrait.
This is easy if your beloved pet is still with you, but what if it isn't? No-one thinks when they take snaps of their furball that it might be used to create a loving memorial.
So what do you do when this happens, you ask for as many photos they can give you which gives you the essence of the animal, its spirit and that is what you try to capture. At the end of the day the colouring might not be quite right as the reference may have been faded or in a bad light, but the expression is there, the droopy eyes, the nicked ear from a fight with the neighbours cat, the lopsided toothy, (or toothless) grin, you get the idea.
You get that right and the rest falls into place.
I'm working on a couple at the moment and yea they are harder than if you have a 'good' reference, but I hope I've caught their spirit and done them justice.
I can't share them yet obviously but fingers crossed.
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