For those of you who are visual artists, do you like to draw/paint anything from nature?

[broacher]

Very nice! I took the liberty of tuning up your vulture piece a bit. Hope you do don’t mind.

[broacher]

I’m going to try to do some nature drawing again.

It’s tough with bugs as it’s hard to feel the movement and structure as easily as something with a skeleton. I’ve been doing on-the-spot just to get some chops back.

Specimen shot practice here, from my visit to the butterfly conservatory, FWIW.

[adrien_ferrand]

I love to look and illustrations of animals, plants and anatomy in general. From very realistic ones to artistic depictions (water painting, etc.).

I’m not very good at it though, but I do enjoy doing rough sketches. It forces me to look at proportions and specific anatomical traits which I would otherwise miss, all this without caring to fail since it’s a rough sketch it doesn’t have to be pretty. To all people who don’t know how to draw: let’s do rough sketches!

[quixel]

Thats so cool! And the ariados is soooo cute :)

[spiderladylyle]

Ariados is my favorite Pokémon! I made a “life-sized” plush for a cosplay!

[austin_ajit]

A sardine run, featuring a bunch of poor sardines getting absolutely rekked by Common Ganets, short beaked dolphins and a humpback whale. Took me half a year to stop procrastinating and finish this one from it’s original pencil sketch.

A Lil acrylic of a white tailed tropic bird on a random cardboard circle from a roll of canvas :D

[triceratops_65]

That sardine run is amazing!

[kblackburn]

I enjoy using watercolor brush pens, to make realistic butterfly paintings. Here is my favorite of a European peacock butterfly!

[danly]

Some of my favorite backyard visitors: Red-bellied woodpecker, Red-breasted nuthatch, Downy woodpecker:

And my Crow “friends”:

[Cryptomarasmius]

I especially enjoy drawing corvids and fungi, which happened to be the theme of last year’s Christmas cards to my friends and family. The two magpies are the parents of a fledgling I looked after for a while which was attacked by crows (healthy and free now thankfully), and the jackdaw with Amanitas is drawn from a composite of my old photographs.

I do a lot in monochrome, often with just one pencil, but I also like to throw in a splash of colour, which at the moment seems to be red.

[danly]

These are really lovely.
Is that a shadowy fox by the tree to the left of the jackdaw … or just my imagination?

[Cryptomarasmius]

Thank you.

Yes it is - I had forgotten about that one!

[bromine_17]

Not a drawing, but I found a coral fossil that I wanted to give to my best friend. So I went outside and found a bunch of stuff to wrap it with. I think it came out cool! I wrapped it with a piece of flexible tree bark with lichen on it and then glued on dead hydrangea flowers and some juniper leaves (I think it’s juniper? It came off a bush). I’m gonna give it to him tomorrow!

[nikthecowboy]

Not a drawing or painting, but I did sew some animals onto a shirt for a friend’s birthday! (Sea lion and some sort of fish)

[nikthecowboy]

I did a quick sketch of a yellow crowned night heron!

[sbushes]

Love the duck one @jasonhernandez74
Be curious to see more.

[danly]

I love it when new posts appear to keep this thread alive. It’s one of the best antidotes to some of the more serious, technical, or contentious forum topics.
I just reviewed the entire thread, and was once again wowwed, awed and delighted by the many wonderful works, from highly realistic to purely whimsical.
As always, it’s a delight, and an inspiration!

[bitsnbirds]

These are really reminding me of the way Matt Sewell draws his birds, especially the courser. I have a couple of his books, and I always love going through them every now and again.

[aditya_puthenpura]

trueee theyre like cute lil borbs

[rosamilan]

This place had a button machine and I needed to make use of it… so I drew some city birds.
For now I’ve pinned them to my binocular case :)