bird art

The hover fly that hoovered up my time

I decided one day to do a doodle of a hover fly I photographed on a flower instead of a bird, as I normally do.

It feels like I spent about 500 hours colouring the flower, and in the end I’m not really that happy with the result. It’s fine. I may go back and tweak it, somehow. But here it is for now.

Note: The gray part of the fly’s abdomen looks unfinished, but that’s actually how it looked in the photo. If I go back, I may use some ol’ artistic licence to address it, because it does look odd.

Update:

I have fixed the fly (please have your fly spayed or neutered) and made the background a bit different. It’s an improvement, I think.

Bird art: Brown creeper

Based on a photo I took at Burnaby Lake this summer.

This is the first time the background1I’m still not sure I’m entirely happy with it, either, but it’s pretty close. I may tweak it, I may not. took longer to do than the actual bird. Much longer!

I will draw a bird soon

This is me promising on the internet to do something. Maybe not today, but soon, as defined as “in the next couple of days.” In the meantime, to help inspire me, my bird art of a Sandhill crane:

Sandhill crane being very Sandhill crane

Bird art: Cedar waxwing

I finally got to drawing one of these pretty boys, based on a photo I took on July 8, 2023 at Tlahutum Regional Park.

If I touched it up, I’d probably adjust the background colours and spend a little more time on the branch. But it’s fine-ish.

A short time later, this alternate (updated?) version:

Or maybe the original green with the updated blue? I’m going to bed now. 😛

Bird art: Snow goose

It’s been a while since I did one of these, and I figured I should get one more in before the end of the year. It’s not perfect, but it’s snow goosey enough. Based on a photo I took at Iona Beach on October 22, 2023.

Experimenting with geese

I’ve now got it in my head that I want to do one or more cartoon with geese, because they intrigue me and horrify me in equal parts.

My first step was to do a bird drawing of a Canada goose, but in a more deliberate cartoon style. This is my initial attempt, which I’ll refine as I go along. I’m using the most obvious joke here, they’ll probably get weirder or more obscure if I do more.