Jango and Bundy by @petra (petra wheeler)
These are my dogs again, but this time it's done in photoshop and not on paper with real paint. Used the grass brush for the grass, that works a lot quicker than drawing them all. For the tyles I used 'fill' with 'distort'. I made one plank of the fence and then copied them, cause they are supposed to have about the same shape (does look like that in real life but with more woody details) and put them together using the layer-tool.
The black/white one, is Bundy. Here he's like 6 month's old. Now he's 3,5 years old. And a lot bigger ^__^. There must have been something that caught their attention, probably a bird or something; don't remember.
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I like the face on the black one a lot. The eyes are good on the brown one, but his snout is off from the skull perspective, which kinda throws me. But I get a nice, doggie feeling from this picture, so you've got that down.
Anyway, you've got a good start with digital painting here, but I think you'll get even better results by applying real-media rules to digital tools.
That is, don't just paint things one color; be sure to show reflected colors, and also add in additional colors for richness.
Also, things tend to look more realistic when their colors aren't as saturated--you might want to try "greying out" the grass some, to see if it fits better.
Shouldn't the grass overlap the dog's fur a bit more in more places??
Some tutorials might be of interest to you, if you're interested in doing more digital painting:
Gorblimey's tutorials at: www.gorblimey.com Epilogue.net's tutorials at: www.epilogue.net Eyewoo's tutorials at: www.eyewoo.com Katherine Dinger's tutorials at: http://div.dyndns.org/EK/tutorial/ (includes a nice fur tutorial!)
I say you definitely have a good sense for starting on the digital-painting road; you just need some more clarifications on your map. Or something.
Thanks for sharing! Your dogs seem nice!