Hello, besides becoming a vet I draw pet portraits if I can find the time.
Techniques available are coloured pencil, graphite, charcoal and pastels, on special occasions and suitable reference pictures also watercolours.

Here are some examples:

Greets, Merlin

Coloured Pencil
http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/thumb_bono_hp.JPG (http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/bono_hp.JPG)

Graphite
http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/thumb_balou_hp.JPG (http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/balou_hp.JPG)

Charcoal
http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/thumb_friesin_hp.JPG (http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/friesin_hp.JPG)

Pastels
http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/thumb_famousjoy_hp.JPG (http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/famousjoy_hp.JPG)

and watercolour

http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/Zeichnungen/thumb_romke_aquarell_hp.JPG (http://www.merlinsgalerie.de/uploads/images/Zeichnungen/romke_aquarell_hp.JPG)

that pictures are really beautiful!

wow! You do such amazing work. Do you usually work from photos? What's your turn around time? I think these would make wonderful gifts... I wish I'd known before the holidays.

Those are simply brilliant. I'll bet those take forever. I know I tend to only have time to do sketches but I remember doing pencil portraits for art class and it used to make me want to go insane before I was done.

Hey
Wow, I love your portraits !!
The Rodesian Ridgeback pic is beautiful :)
I´ll take a look at your Homepage :)
Keep it up!!

Thanks to you all!
Yes, they take some time.. between 8 and 25 hours, usually.

Whoever is intested can take a look at my page, and feel free to contact me ;)

oh! Your pictures are beautifull!
I think you have much talent on drawing!

The third picture is the best I think!

I only know the german word of these horse breed.. How do you call `Friese´ in English?

Sternchen14 and her writing mistakes (sry!)

Awesome! This pictures are really amazing and beautifull.
The last one is really great^^
I like to see more pictures:D

Merlin, those sketches are really good. I'm no horse but I'm my wife's pet...can I pose for you? Those look better than some pics I have of myself.:)

@Sternchen14: Those are "frisians" in English ;)

How long did it take you to work on the Charcoal one? That has to be my favorite, but they are all amazing. I wish I had talent like that, I cant even draw a straight line!

Thank you :)
I cannot remember. Something between eight and fourteen hours, probably.