Boxing Day is silly, but I still did a new version of the Gum Gum drawing from last year. I would have spent more time on it, but got kind of lazy/blocked. But it’s okay (hee hee).
Creative
A Wilson’s Warbler
The photo I based this on was take from a longer-than-desired distance, mainly because the warbler was sitting on a rock in the middle of the Brunette River.
But the drawing turned out pretty decent.
Ring-necked gull
I took artistic license and changed the logs it was standing on to a giant featureless rock. Also, I was maybe a little lazy.
A non-blurry junco
Because I took my fuzzy photo and turned it into a nice crisp drawing!
Spotted sandpiper
When I got my Canon EOS M50 camera in January 2021, the first place I took it to take bird pictures was Maplewood Flats. Unfortunately, it was a gray, misty day, so I didn’t get a lot of great shots. I did get a photo of a spotted sandpiper, but it wasn’t very close. That photo serves as the basis for this bird drawing. I re-interpreted the log to something more stylized because why not?
A spotted towhee
This took longer to draw, not because I lavished extra detail on it, but because I screwed up. I sized the reference photo down way too small, so I ended up with a micro-sketch of an extremely tiny towhee. It did not scale up gracefully, being made of pixels and all, so I basically drew a proper-sized one over top of it. I didn’t really notice my goof-up until I had pretty much finished the original drawing.
But now I’ll know for next time!
Bushtit: The birbiest bird art
Eyes that pierce the soul, fluffy round bodies that are fluffy and round.
A male mallard duck
Mallards may be common, but when in full breeding colours, they are very pretty.
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.
