Very nice! I took the liberty of tuning up your vulture piece a bit. Hope you do don’t mind.
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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.
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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!
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Thats so cool! And the ariados is soooo cute :)
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Ariados is my favorite Pokémon! I made a “life-sized” plush for a cosplay!
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
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That sardine run is amazing!
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I enjoy using watercolor brush pens, to make realistic butterfly paintings. Here is my favorite of a European peacock butterfly!
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Some of my favorite backyard visitors: Red-bellied woodpecker, Red-breasted nuthatch, Downy woodpecker:
And my Crow “friends”:
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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.
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These are really lovely.
Is that a shadowy fox by the tree to the left of the jackdaw … or just my imagination?
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Thank you.
Yes it is - I had forgotten about that one!
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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!
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