Pet Portraits and Wildlife Art

Been busy behind the scenes for a couple of days, I've been working on my entry into the pet portrait and wildlife art forum with a rather large tiger portrait. I think I underestimated how long it would take, the deadline is Friday and I've still got a long way to go. I need to have a break from it now though as I'm becoming more irritated with it by the minute. I am hoping to finish Dolly and Peggy this evening and will post an update tomorrow, then I will be starting the cats portrait, Officer Dibble and Fifi, I'm looking forward to working on these two as I have not had much chance to portray cats so it will be a nice change (domestic cats that is, not big cats, those tigers are taking over my life at the moment). I've been investigating pastel pencils and hope to have a go at these after the Christmas rush is over but I've also had one of many sparks of inspiration (not many of them work mind you) so I need to do a bit more research before I can throw myself into my next venture.