Skotecky Design - Pet Portrait Artist, Equine and wildlife drawings and commissions - Salt Spring Island Sidney Victoria BC Canada

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Passion for Pencils

The official site of pet portrait artist Sasha Skotecky. Sasha creates highly detailed coloured pencil drawings of wildlife, pets and horses in a realistic style.
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Inspired by Beauty

Sasha combines his passion for drawing and animals into his work and draws his inspiration from the beautiful natural world in which we live.
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Quality and Tradition

Sasha's portraits are all traditionally hand drawn using the world's highest quality artist materials.
skotecky.com
Quality and Tradition

Sasha's portraits are all traditionally hand drawn using the world's highest quality artist materials.
skotecky.com
Quality and Tradition

Sasha's portraits are all traditionally hand drawn using the world's highest quality artist materials.

Welcome to Skotecky Design

Hi, my name is Sasha and I am a wildlife, equine and pet portrait artist living on Salt Spring Island BC Canada. My portraits celebrate the beauty and soul of my subjects. I work from photographs to create a portrait of your cat, dog or horse that captures that special spark in their eye. The end result is a long-lasting artwork that you can hang proudly in your home.

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Pet Portraits

Commission a beautiful portrait of your pet using your photos as reference. The process is easy and the results are stunning.

The Process

My process takes time, patience and
All my coloured pencil projects are drawn on the most luxurious and archival paper such as Pastelmat, Fabriano Artistico and Strathmore. Below I demonstrate the time and steps I take to create my works.

Skotecky Design - Pet, Equine and wildlife drawings and commissions - Sidney Victoria BC Canada

2 Hours

sketching my lines, studying my reference and drawing the eyes.

After studying my reference images and sketching my lines, I always start with the eyes as they immediately give soul to the animal I am drawing and insipre me to spend the countless hours with them.

6 Hours

Drawing the ears of any other outer parts that are interesting make for a prefect frame to keep inspiration flowing.

Once the soulful eyes are there to guide and inspire, framing with ears and beginning the process of covering my subject with fur is next.

10 Hours

Drawing the nose and following my subject's fur direction.

The next part takes patience and concentration as I make sure to follow the fur direction in all sections of the face and make sure I depict the nose as realistically as possible.

14 Hours

Depth and fluffiness are next. Almost done.

Once most of the face has been covered in fur the fluffiness and depth of the collar, beard and whiskers are what comes next. Finishing the piece with carefully placed highlights, shadows and love.

Recent Projects

Below we have some of my most recent wildlife projects. These unique pieces have been created using coloured pencils on Strathmore and Fabriano Artistico Traditional Watercolor Paper