The End

[tealin]

Drawing the crow:
Page One - Foot studies. I knew they were like hands, but looks at the way the pads wrinkle and everything! Amazing!
Page Two - trying to get the general form
Page Three - analyzing the wing
Page Four - Body, wing, tail and beak. No, this page is not upside down.

This brings to and end the Lenten sketchbook ...

Comments

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

The foot studies are beautiful.

[lumosart.livejournal.com]

::hangs head in shame:: Sorry about the "Is this a real dead bird" comment. These studies are beautiful! On Page 4, the straight on head drawing, how did you get that? Did you draw it standing up?

[viqii.livejournal.com]

I agree with bananabasket...foot studies are great

[blackunicorn777.livejournal.com]

oh,having such good,calm,(dead),model should be a really nice time to practice and you really used it well...the really important and hard parts of a bird is its feet and wings which I think you have done really well and the beak is also really nice!but about the sketches you do in buses,(life drawings I mean),they are usually too quickly done,then how can they help so much?you know they haven't been that useful for me because they have been too fast and I couldn't get things I actually needed...

[purebristles.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with your post, but just wondering if you've had the chance to take a look at this (http://community.livejournal.com/sirius_loving/10505.html), because I think you might appreciate it.

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

NOO! don't give up the sketchbook. I really liked it and found it actually helpful. Educational. or something....

just a quick hello

[barefootjenna.livejournal.com]

hi, i came across some of your harry potter art and I pimped it on my lj -then i realized that you were a lj user too, so i thought i would say hello and stuff.

Can I friend you? I really like your art.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

The foot studies, as others have said before me, are fantastic. I look more at the feet of birds like eagles and chickens, the former because of the talons, and the latter because they're so reptilian. I can put them together to make a dragon foot.
About the wing analysis one: This area is what, exactly? it just says 'this area is'.

You know, the head-on drawing is quite cute.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I love birds. Even crows have their own sort of beauty.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

** Salutes the Lenten Sketchbook with all honor due such a noble project **

I enjoyed following your discussions and drawings over the period of Lent. Thanks for sharing them with us!