After the ear was finished I moved on to the fur areas on the right side of the head.  As before, I started with a base layer of Peach Beige.  In this area the image is all little details, so I concentrated on drawing individually visible hairs from the beginning.

I added just a touch of Orange Mineral, mostly on individual hairs.

Again, I added a touch of Peach Beige, and then a fair amount of Derwent Chinese White, applied over the Peach Beige and Orange Mineral.  White pencil is also applied very lightly over the sketch lines of the paws, which allowed me to completely erase all remaining graphite marks.

Once the graphite was erased, I used a firmer application of Derwent Chinese White over the established areas, and a light application on the paws.

Most of the fur from here is white, so I applied Derwent Chinese White more firmly to the leftmost paw to define the shadows and lighting.  I also added Pink Rose to the pads of the uppermost paw, but I wasn’t too keen on the quality of the color for the more shaded pads.

I added a tiny bit of Tuscan Red to the pads of the uppermost paw.  Instead of the Pink Rose, I lightly used Beige Sienna lightly for the pads of the leftmost paw.  However, I was not very happy with that color either.

I didn’t like the way the leftmost paw was looking, so I erased some of the Beige Sienna and applied more white.  I also added a firmer application of white to the other two paws, and drew in the last whiskers.

After looking at it for a bit, I also added more white to the tail, even though the highlights are not present in the reference image.  I felt that more definition would create a stronger image.

This is what my test section of paper looked like after I was finished with the drawing.  Many of these colors were used in the drawing, while many were not.

Get a good white pencil, test your other colors, keep your pencils sharp, and layer liberally, and you can create your own beautiful colored pencil drawings on black paper.

Final Composition

This piece was drawn on 12”x18” paper, and the final composition makes use of negative space.

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