Flat Coated Retriever

This is my neighbour's dog, who commissioned it. His name is Bartok and when she showed me the reference picture I knew it had to be in soft pastel. The colours looked so good!
Unfortunately, it looks a lot better in real life, I think, plus this was done in A3 so I had to try to get rid of the line that appeared half way through the picture...
I don't know how long it took me, only that I only went to bed at 5am after finishing just the dog (ok, I may have started at midnight or something after getting distracted before then) and then I think the background and the proportion lines added up to about and hour or two, I think.