Here's three drawings I accomplished yesterday with my time at the studio! This is the first of the three I did and it's probably my favourite out of them. This is a Spectacled Owl and you can obviously tell how it got its name from the white feathers around his eyes. For these fine lined feathers I coloured around the white areas as best I could and then added detail with a white gel pen. It's always a little difficult working with white and black colored pencils because you tend the smear the black into the white and you get a lot of grey where you need white! The gel pen is a good fix for that!
I saw a photo of this colorful little guy online and I had to draw him! I couldn't find the name of this bird anywhere! So if anyone knows what this little bird is let me know! I loved experimenting with different colours in this piece. I've been working with a lot of neutral colours lately so this drawing was fun to do. One thing I need to practice is working with different colours and learn how to blend them properly and to use the right colours together.
This piece was a learning experience as well. The photo above isn't even the finished product; I decided I'd color in the background a dark green. It made the bird pop out a little more but I had troubles blending the background so it looks a little scribbly. I now know it's best for me not to color in the background, depending on the piece of course! Sometimes less is more, in this case it definitely was.
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