My New Website is Live!

Visit it here:

TimJeffsArt.com

I’m very excited to announce that my website just went live. TimJeffsArt.com is my home on the web where I can display all my work and various projects.

I hope you can stop by for a visit!

You'll find my new shop where signed and unsigned prints of all of my animal drawings are available to purchase along with the complete library of my digital download coloring books and grayscale coloring lessons. No worries if you prefer to purchase my digital books and lessons from my Etsy or gumroad shops. They will remain open and continue to have all my new products.

On my new site In the conservation section, you can see the projects that I am very proud to have been a part of. Using my art to preserve wildlife is so important to me.

Thanks for taking this journey with me; none of this would be possible without your support!

The Coolest Coat

Drawing a Jaguar In Colored Pencil and Ink

Prints, posters, stationery cards, and signed fine art reproductions  

are available for purchase in my Etys shop at: 

 www.etsy.com/shop/TimJeffsArt

Jaguar. 11x17"  Colored Pencil and ink on paper

I believe when you find something you like to do, do it over and over again. So this is the third time I've drawn a jaguar recently, and drawing this beautiful animal is something I throughly enjoy doing every time I do it. The first two drawings I did of this cat were in black ink, so taking it on this time in color was a very different challenge. Working in color is very different from the graphic quality of black and white. It involves looking at the subject in a different way. Lighting, shape, texture are achieve differently from using only black ink. 

I just love the coat on a Jaguar. The patterns and color on a jaguar are second to none, and drawing the intricate detail is exactly the kind of drawing I like to do.

Some of the supplies I work with including inks and colored pencils

I used both ink and colored pencil on this piece. I still like using black ink for all of my dark darks. The black colored pencils just don't achieve the blacks I like.

The original photograph by Luis Urena that I used as reference

With such an complex and detailed fur coat the jaguar is a marvel of beauty. The photo I used as reference was graciously provided by Luis Urena. He's a photographer and Wildlife conservationist from Panama. Thank you Luis for the use of your beautiful photograph!

Photo Copyright © 2013 Luis Urena

Summit Park wildlife rehabilitation center, Panama

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

Here's the finished drawing

Prints, posters and signed fine art reproductions are available 

for purchase in my Etys shop at: 

 www.etsy.com/shop/TimJeffsArt

I Just landed in Oz

Drawing a Sea Turtle In Colored Pencil

Prints, posters, stationery cards, and signed fine art reproductions  

are available for purchase in my Etys shop at: 

 www.etsy.com/shop/TimJeffsArt

Green Sea Turtle. 11x17"  Colored Pencil on paper

No doubt that black in white is cool looking. I love its raw graphic quality. I really enjoy working in black ink, and it will always have a very special spot in my creative thinking. But after over 40 black and white Ink drawings of animals, I feel like my house just crash landed, and I opened the door to tecnocolor in the wonderful Land of OZ! I always loved in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" how the first half was filmed in black and white and appeared so gritty against the ultra colorized second half in Oz. That's how this drawing experience felt to me. Like being unleashed in a world of vivid colors! 

Now, this isn't the first time I've created art in color. I've painted in oils, acrylics, and watercolors. I've done pastel drawing, marker drawings, and worked in oil sticks. But for the last year I've solely worked in black ink. So, I thought why not change things up, why not depart from the safety of the norm, why not give color a whirl again. So, I went out and picked up a 72 colored pencil set and took the plunge. I have to say, I enjoyed using them. I haven't really ever done a piece of art in colored pencil before. Though I have a lot of learning and experimenting to do, my first impression was positive. Blending in colored pencil was similar to painting. The soft color lead mixed well, and it felt comfortable to work in. Finding the best paper will be my next challenge. I just worked with what I had around, and I know I can find better paper. 

And just for the record, I'm not leaving my black ink behind. I still love black and white and will alternate between them for awhile. But color has definitely got my attention!

I bought a set of 72 Colored Pencils to work with

The subject matter for this piece was inspired by a beautiful photograph of a Green Sea Turtle by a friend of mine Terence Zahner. Terence and his wife Doris are avid scuba divers. Terence is an advanced underwater photographer who's work is absolutely stunning! You can see more of it and even purchase prints in his Etsy shop Zahner Photo. He's always been so gracious to me by offering his photos for reference for my drawings. Thanks Terence for your willingness to lend your amazing photographs to me. I truly appreciate it.

Terence and Doris Zahner doing what they both do best

And a rare shot of them above water!

The inspiration for my drawing. Terence's beautiful picture

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

Here are a few details

Here's the finished drawing

Prints, posters and signed fine art reproductions are available 

for purchase in my Etys shop at: 

 www.etsy.com/shop/TimJeffsArt