Scribble - Snowleopard

Description

I call him "the Kitty"

body length: up to 51.18in
shoulder height: up to 23.62in
body weight: up to 165.35lb
up to 16yards, jump distance (well, maybe!)

The snow leopard is actually considered as one of the big cats, but it has a special position.

Unlike other big cats it does not roar, and he does not eat by lying down.
Indeed, one may consider the snowleopard as the largest small cat (-> kitty).

He lives in the Himalaya (beside other locations).

What he looks at in the drawing?
No idea, maybe the Yeti
No, better: he sees the climber who thinks he's a Yeti

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Steps

In a scribble drawing my pencil gets a lot of freedom.
The shading is done by ‘wild scribbling’, these are squiggly lines that generate a relatively solid surface impression.
If possible, I do not use hatching.
For a further darkening I use an blue ink pen (on the paper this gives a slight blue tint - here I have converted the image to grayscale)

Hier is a close-up view:

1. Finedrawing with the grid method (without a predrawing)
2. Finedrawing (pencil)
3. Finedrawing (pencil)
4. Finedrawing (pencil)
5. Darkening with a pen

final drawing

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Tools/Material

Paper	normal printer-papier (DIN-A4...A6) normal sketchbook paper (DIN-A3)
Pencil HB	for pre drawing, fine lines, area-darkening and graphite-powder
Eraser	(2 x 2 x 0.6 cm) for area-lightening
Eraser	(small - at the end of a pencil) to smear graphite-powder
Sandpaper	to produce graphite-powder with the HB-pencil
Paper handkerchief	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (wide areas)
Finger	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (middle areas)
Pen with bicycle tube	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (small areas)
Cardboard	to smear graphite-powder or for blurring (tiny areas)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 30mm)
Eraser-template	simple construction with a gap (1 x 2mm)
Extra papers	to protect areas