Mallards may be common, but when in full breeding colours, they are very pretty.
Creative
Blackbird
The outline is black!
Squirrel: The non-bird
For a change of pace, I used a squirrel as reference:
Horrible goose
A goose, with opinions.
A drawing of a ring-necked duck
I spent way more time than I should have trying to figure out what to do with the water. A simple, flat colour? Add ripples? Make it look semi-realistic? Bright? Dark? Medium? Hot pink?
In the end, I settled for a slightly layered look using darker blues and a flat paint brush.
A haiku to the weird lack of precipitation in September
NovemberSeptember Rain The days are sunny The rain appears like a ghost And then it is gone
The American coot
If I had tried to capture the feet of this magnificent birb in full detail, this drawing would have taken me 500 million hours. I also would have had nightmares about them for just as long.
Female cowbird
A female cowbird, just like the title says.
A Steller’s jay
I tried to come up with a clever title and failed. This is, in fact, a Steller’s jay.
Rockin’ robin
The robin in the reference photo for this was standing in tall grass (for a robin), hiding its feet. I thought about filling them in, but in the end just cropped off the bottom of the drawing. I felt a little Liefeld at the time.
It’s a pigeon!
Pigeon line art. Coo, coo.
Wood duck line art
Like the title says. Male, non-breeding colours.
