A Guide to Creating Dog Portraits is designed to create dog portraits using pastels and paints. There are 20 chapters teaching different techniques to produce initial sketches of a variety of dogs. The sketches take the reader through fully illustrated stages, step-by-step, to the finished piece. There are six examples in the book to guide you. A Guide to Creating Dog Portraits lists all the tools required and includes a chapter with a unique explanation of 'observation' and how important this is when doing a portrait.