I’ve had pretty bad art block lately, but I want to get back in to drawing birds, so it would be very nice if you could share some of your favorite photos for me to draw!

Wedge tailed eagle https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/174645554

[IMG_0078] [IMG_0070] Two of my favorite pictures from my bird feeder. Unfortunately, the feeder’s camera quality isn’t great, so it’s a bit blurry.

Here are a couple if you’d like - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254159222 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/275187140

This is really cool! Well here’s one I like, not my best photo, but the main Sulphur Crested Cockatoo is kinda cute! [DSC_9745]

Hi Nik. So what are you mostly looking for? For inspiration, I mean. Here’s a Northern Flicker with a bit of an unusual expression. Purely accidental, but the impulse to anthropomorphize is pretty intense. I mean, ‘haughty’ comes to mind. [image] Color? Texture? Pattern? (Cue the Wood Duck) [i…

Lovely! Nice job. Do you have a setup with a digital stylus? I’d like to know your setup and software. I have spent quite a bit of time playing around with digital drawing software/hardware. There’s a lot of pretty neat gear out there and it’s more affordable than most people realize.

I use a Wacom tablet (the screen-less kind), it’s hooked up to my laptop which I have adobe photoshop on (I have the Lightroom-photoshop bundle) as for drawing in photoshop I mainly use brushes I’ve imported from adobe’s free brush library.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266854068 This lil chonk would be a rather fun doodle, I think. Btw I love your artsyle! It’s sort of minimalistic, yet in a way that feels professional like the art of Sir Quentin Saxby Blake , if he drew black and white and made his art a lot more realis…

Give me birds to draw!

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Heron! This one is digital because I’m pretty rusty with photoshop.

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Give me birds to draw!

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