Two birds turned in to one. It just happened. 🙃 Then I did it a second time.
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Two birds turned in to one. It just happened. 🙃 Then I did it a second time.
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2nd
And another try at the eagle flying drawing that I did yesterday.
I did the outline quickly to get the proportions right/better then drew the details. The wing behind the head is more true to the photo in this version.
A new drawing – an eagle in flight, 2 versions. The first in the upper left was a test sketch and then I drew most of the bird (based on the source photo).
You can see I get the wing behind the head a bit off …
Sitting at Starbucks I drew an eagle (from memory, not from a specific photo).
Happy new year. 🎈
It’s going to be a great one 🕺
A rare straight pen drawing…
I found this source image where the line of the beak went right in to the line of the eyebrow and it seemed cool and different from I es I’d been studying.
So I drew another couple eagles from that.
And this one. I noticed a curve in that ridge on the beak I wasn’t getting right before. Although I guess each eagle could be different but in the one I noticed the s-curve in a new way to my eye.
I did a 60 second sketch yesterday of a lion and then did a real one tonight and spent idk an hour maybe.
Here’s a few of the making of, and the one of the final version. I used a photo for reference on my iPad (mini), and here’s a similar one of Luke on Flickr.
I always start with the eyes and build out the rest from there.
I like the partially done versions.
For these drawings I added black feathers around the head, which helped to show off the contrast of the white head feathers.
A couple more from my sketchbook.
I’ve only done this once I think, where I made a black background to help make the white head of the eagle stand out…
Recently I saw this person’s drawings that are done with white “ink” on black paper. I found it to be different and really liked their drawings. 😉