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Just a few steps I made in the construction of a zebra in scratchboard. It's only small, 5" x 7" on black Ampersand 'Claybord'.

Firstly I cleared the white stripes with a curved blade



Then I did the eye and scratched away at the black stripes to get the hairs looking right



And finally I added colour with a combination of watercolours and coloured pencils, keeping it all fairly muted to allow the black and white to do the main work, rescratching where the colour has been added and trying to get the hair direction correct.



Here's a couple of closeups. Of course, they are massively magnified, probably four or five times larger than life, but it shows that the scratches are hard to do when they are small but though they are fairly random, the overall effect is fairly easy to achieve

Really like the look of this one Patrick,easy to achieve i don"t think so!
This would look good in a modern apartment.
On a much bigger scale of course!

Best from mike.

One of your best here mate. Even the first stage looks amazing!

Many thanks Mike and Leigh. And WOW! This one sold already! A friend came around and saw it and bought it just like that!! Cool

Nicely done Patrick, nice crop...but then you are the king of crops. Congrats on the sale, that's a good friend.

It's no secret as to why this sold already. It's just brilliant mate. You're composition skills are some of the best I've ever seen and this is possibly the best designed work I've seen from you.