Don’t peek – 2 bathing beauties

Posted on | September 23, 2009 | Comments Off

I never realised a person could have so much fun drawing little birds.  It can be quite frustrating getting the feathers down and don’t get me started on the beaks.  I’ve been practicing bird feet lately, I’ll scan them in later and let you see them. I have pages and pages of feet and eyes I’ve drawn. If I’m ever stopped by animal welfare, they’ll think I’m some sort of animal serial killer!

Now, I said in an earlier post that I had been reading books on how to draw and that I’ve given up on them. Know why? They totally screw me up. For some reason, each time I read a lesson I can’t draw for a couple of days because everything ends up lopsided and cartoony. I guess I’m stuck with drawing a detailed eye and then drawing out from there. Yes, I start with a very detailed eye (and feathers around the eye) and then use an H lead to sketch in the basic outline from there. For some reason, if I draw an outline first, everything goes pear shaped and funny as hell to look at. Dunno why, just the way my brain and hand eye coordination works.

So, where are those bathing beauties? Here you go:

From Catpaw’s Art work – birds

And I’ll bet there were some of you that were hoping for something a little less feathered. This nice Chestnut-sided Warbler, taking a bath was easy to do. This simple pencil sketch took about 1 hr to do today. I’ve been trying to add more detail into my sketches, make them a little less disembodied in look.

Here’s the second:

From Catpaw’s Art work – birds

One day, I may get tired of sketching little songbirds. But I don’t think so.

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