Deer family by the stream

A doe bends toward a spotted fawn beside a winding stream. Birch trunks, ferns and rounded stones build a layered woodland around the pair.

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How much detail?

Detailed ferns and birch marks surround two large deer silhouettes and a stream. About the labels.

Try this palette: Fern and bark

Keep both deer warm tan and vary the greens around them; color the distant path more lightly.

A small coloring tip

A fine pencil point helps around fern leaflets and hooves. Use broad light strokes through the water.

Give the fawn slightly warmer spots than its body, then repeat that shade on a few stones.