Drawing for a Friend - Calamity Jane Pencil 20 x 18 Roughly

A friend has a lovely collie who asked about getting a drawing or painting of her.  This is she, Calamity Jane and in this best of the reference photographs she had some antlers to chew on.  

This was a great reference image -- a little wild which was even better.  It had a lot going near like it is, but I thought cropped down it was going to be easier to recognize the dog, portrait style, and cropped down it still made a good composition, which might even have included some of the background branches which drew my eye to the dog's eye.

Drawing it got me out of a tug of war I was having with a landscape, and so I was glad Calamity came along!