I have a delightful new cat close up in progress. This one will give me some practice doing whiskers. I placed the eyes and nose and other prominent features using the grid method. I like to start with the eyes, giving them lots of very light layers of graphite to bring out their shape and shading. I use a circular movement when I work on the iris and the nose. This for me gives the texture a seemingly real look. The progress shown here represents approximately 4 hours of work. I started it last evening while watching TV...then spent a couple of hours this morning refining the eyes and developing the rubbery little nose