Birds

So I took a day off today and went to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) today to do some bird sketching. It was fun to just draw at my own pace and enjoy it, something I should probably be doing a lot more often. Anyway, here's my sketch page, after much unfortunate smudgery occurred when I got back home.



The bottom right one looks downright evil...anyway, back to work...

Pencil on sketchbook paper

Animation - We're All Lucky

My final animation assignment for the year: take a character with a beak and animate it talking and acting to an audio track. I grabbed this sound clip from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". I had a lot of fun doing this, and despite that I rushed it and there are some things about it that I would fix, I still like this one. I hope you do too!

Rat Trapped

Something I came up with in my Life Drawing class. I can't help but feel sorry for our little rodent friend. No rats were harmed in the making of this drawing.




Nupastel on Newsprint. 20 min.

The birds and the beasts were there...

So I went to the animals...errr...the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, and as usual it was a lot of fun and frustration getting some drawings to be proud of. My quest for improvement never ends, as it should, but sometimes you wish it could be just a bit easier. Anyway, here are a few quickies and longer ones I liked more than the others. More to come...



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Four Poses and a Bird...

Here's my forage into the wacky world of Preston Blair. I whipped up a bird character and made a little story. Bored, he's walking along and kicks a stone. Then he sees something he thinks is valuable. He picks up, gets disappointed, then tosses it aside as he walks on. Three things I really need to get asap - a better sketchbook, a better scanner, and better drawing skills. Let's see how many I can get by the end of the summer...



Pencil on somewhat rotted sketchbook paper

R is for Rhino, T is for Tapir...

As awkward as it is for me to draw animals on the spot, I love it. Here are a couple of studies I did from a trip to the zoo. First, a rhino...(20 min)



...and a tapir. No, not the same thing as an anteater...(20 min, I think...)