Pug Cross

Hi all,
This is my new work in progress and I think is a Pug Cross. I took the photo at a dog show a few years ago, and have been meaning to draw him for ages, as he is an older dog and quite cute to look at. I am using for the first time a Goldline Paper,heavy weight fine grain, and although different from my other papers I quite like it. The pencils are mixture of Prismacolour and Polychromos and the most used colours so far PC...Jasmine,yellow ochre,burnt sienna,burnt umber....FC...Raw Umber,a few shades of grey, and black. As time goes on a few more will be added into the palette,including a background. For most of you who follow this blog, you will know that I am not so good with backgrounds and will tend to opt for using some pastel smudged in rather than something with any sort of detail, but I would like to try and change that a bit. As I live by the sea I have chosen that to do with the dog right in the foreground. I have put in my horizon which I think is ok, bringing the sea forward into a bit of sand perhaps.The mounted size will be 12 x 16 inches,so a bit bigger than my normal size, but this is very experimental and sort of scary....the dog is not the rest is lol.