Day 36: Now with shades!
Continuing trying to understand the workflow of painting. This time I followed a brief tutorial and used an image as reference.

How can I improve my process and what is the next step to improve this dog?

The instruction goes like this:

"When drawing animals, you don’t start with the head like you do when drawing humans. Drawing animals usually follows this order, though size and ratio varies per species:

First, decide on a pose: Is your animal lying down, sitting, or running?
Draw the barrel for the chest first.
Next, draw the circle for the hips.
Next, draw the lines that follow the limbs and the circles for joints connecting them.
Follow the curved line of the spine from neck to tail (when applicable.)
Finally, you draw the skull, which for animals lower than primates probably involves two circles to include a longer snout or nose.
Once you have these basics, you can apply your grid drawing and shading techniques to fill in your animal and (when applicable) its fur."

https://www.skillshare.com/projects/Intro-to-Drawing-and-Illustration/132051