After completing the first section, I moved onto the ear area, duplicating the bottom layer of Peach Beige in the furry area to the left.

Next I add the Orange Mineral, which I also used as the base color layer for most of the ear.  I used more or less pressure on the pencil to create brighter and dimmer areas of the ear.

To retain consistent coloring throughout the drawing, I again used Orange Deco on the fur, and along the outer edge of the ear.

Again, for the sake of consistent coloring I used the Derwent Chinese White for the highlights, and the whiskers.

To achieve the glowing effect of light through the ear I used a few additional colors.  I used Crimson Lake to draw the blood veins, which I want to be barely visible in the final piece.

After that, I add a layer of Salmon Pink to brighten some portions of the ear.

Despite testing the color on the edge of the paper, the Salmon Pink did not lay down as brightly as I wanted, so I added a layer of Derwent Chinese White to provide a brighter base.

I added another layer of Salmon Pink, and this time it was as bright as I had originally wanted.

Yellowed Orange added more color saturation.

I added Pale Vermillion sparingly to those parts which needed to be the brightest orange.

At this point the lightest parts of the ear were mostly saturated with pencil, so they wouldn’t take many more layers.  Saturation is the point at which the tooth of the paper has so much pencil on it that more won’t stick.  Exactly how many layers of color may be applied depends upon the paper, the pencils, and how heavily lead is applied to the paper.  I use low-tooth paper so the pencil applies smoothly, and I usually apply the pencil in very light layers.  A heavy hand can saturate the paper in a single layer.

I was watching the saturation of the paper very closely because the ear did not look the way I wanted it to and I knew I was going to need at least another color or two.  WIP15 was far too orange, and the blood veins were still too visible.

I applied Magenta very lightly over the entire ear to give it a more pinkish quality.

I used Black sparingly to re-darken some of the ear and make the brightest areas pop more.

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