Sketches for the Bradbury painting

Been a while since I posted anything here. Been very busy with work and other things. But no excuse to not post to my art blog!! Art is what life is all about! Anyways, before I got off on philosophy, I've been meaning to post some of the sketch ideas for the Hound painting that I did for Ray Bradbury. I first thought of the bull dog concept, but felt that I couldn't get a good silhouette with that shape. So I went with the more Doberman shape. I think the face of the hound ended up looking too much horse like, but still feels like a kind of menacing dog shape that I was looking for.