I liked the black background so I decided to try another color, grey. But the paper I choose was fairly textured, lots of bumps to deal with. Works great with charcoal. So I attempted to use pencil crayon. Well, I am happy with the picture, it does look like our Cloe, The detail was not what I wanted it to be. Pencil crayon does not like this much texture, or rather I don't like using it with pencil crayon. The plus side was it was a very fast drawing to complete. About 20-30 minutes. My daughter Nicole told me that I could get a job on the street doing pet portraits because that did not take long. So I guess now I have a new potential career path. Not sure if that was the one I was going for.