Fourth of the five commissions I fielded in Anthrocon's Artist Alley, here we have ' tonyakita's coyote "Jenny" visiting the Steel City, posing at the waterfront with one of the city's iconic suspension bridges in the background, and Pittsburgh Steelers sandals on her feet :). This was the second sketchbook commission of the con, and this aspect added an extra touch of complexity post-con.

Technical:
I actually fielded this commission the previous day, and while talking with  thehotrodhero about his commission outline while headed to the Artist Alley prior to its opening, I remembered to take a photo of what turns out to be the Ninth Street bridge just south of the convention center (the Andy Warhol and Roberto Clemente bridges behind it were omitted for clarity, and PNC Park was left as a low-detail silhouette in the distant backdrop) as a reference.

This being a sketch in a somewhat oversized sketchbook, I had to scan it in two parts, which introduced some issues when it came to stitching the two together later. Oftentimes, the binding at the side of the sketchbook causes the page to lie...not quite flat on the scanner, which shows up as slightly blurred sections where the page lifted off the bed. I sought to clean up this defect which manifested itself across the merge point of the two images, along with the paper grain which showed up as smudges throughout the blank spaces. Depending on the quality of your display, some of these might still be visible, alas I couldn't chase them all down. After spending a few hours airbrushing out the smudges and eraser crumbs, I touched up lines that faded and straightened some details that came out crooked (notably the open spaces in the bridge tower) and transferred a .BMP version of the file to the ancient Micrografx Picture Publisher to perform some overall contrast adjustments (darken the pencils by themselves) before bringing the result back into Clip Studio to add my logo and FA URL in a simplified style that you might have noticed on this round of uploads.

Pencil on sketchbook paper, cleaned and processed in Clip Studio Paint EX and Micrografx Picture Publisher. Three layers, 18MB .CLIP file (and 39MB .BMP owing to larger-than letter-size paper). Project ID# 534.