Painting a Dog's Head in a Pet Portrait

"Now we've completed our effects simply using the two round brushes, one focusing on a darker gray and the other one on white to add in these fur highlights. We were basically picking and swooping as we went along. Now we're going on to the central challenge of the painting. The one thing everyone's going to look at. The expression on your pet portrait. We're going to largely do similar techniques, except I highly recommend you go back and make sure that you have your picture close by in front of you and we're also going to further downsize our brushes. We're going to have very small round, now, for our black and an equally small round for our white to do our intricate detail work in here. Now, I generally like to start kind of low and work up. So, we're going to start picking in some of the darker regions here as adding a bunch of little hair here and again. Going back to grab more paint as I expand this region out. Also, lots of media here. You don't want to get gummed up with dry paint at this point. So, make sure and go back and get extra dry media. Also, the fur in this case is going to go spill up over the collar. Remember how I said some of it was going to be colored in? Now it is. If the painting is still wet make sure that you apply this very lightly. Essentially, what we're going to do is continue to track our progress all the up and around our dog's face with the darker areas, nose, around the whiskers, on the sides. Up here above the eyes and also even the scruff of the ears. We're going to apply the exact same painting technique I'm demonstrating down here on the rest of the face. Alternating between this dark shades and also going back in here and make sure that we're adding some white highlights as well. This is a lighter Schnauzer, it's not charcoal gray, again. And so you're going to have flairs of white also in the area of black, too, so do not entirely separate them. That would be inappropriate."