i did the dogs off of this one redbone hound that has such an expressive nose, dark red next to his red-brown coat it kind of stands out. i also researched out of my "an atlas of animal anatomy for artists" :
W. Ellenberger & H. Dittrich H. Baum authors. (this is the best book on anatomy period). It also helped me with noses. so that when i looked up samoyed's on the net i downloaded all the ones with close up of the nose. i was going to use a tigers but the nose pattern is not the same. Berg, Sam and Ivan are samoyed nosed, or dog nosed. gazelle's on the other hand look like the simple ones you are using above, I'm telling you this cause it does make a difference. And yes you are getting better, now work on necks.

hey mericus.

Thanks for the name of the anatomy atlas, I didn't know this one.

BUT

I know these noses aren't anatomicaly correct considering the RL species, but that's no problem because these are cartoonish studies and the cartoons allows a wider range of eye, ear, nose forms than the usual round one of RL dogs. I'll try new ones in the next studies.

oh the third one look like a deer. the jaw line does it.

Very feminine and elegant one, but I don't fell it looks like a deer heheh It's very foxy for me ;)

Interesting fella!