That is awesome.... I am trying to draw portraits of my Golden Retriever Lola.... you should join the Sketchbook community here on Hive...

These are my steps...

Step 1: Draw a quick outline to place Lola on the page.

Step 2: Add details and begin to share her fur...

Step 3: add more details, shading and shadows...

I also do a lot of sketches of some of my favourite Star Wars Characters ....

Here is a Timelapse video of my ink sketch of Han and Chewy from The Empire Strikes Back.