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Oona is pushing paint around Mar 13, 2023

days 39-40 of my #100DaysChallenge of drawing animals. I continued working on some watercolors and more intentionally to be finished stuff - with the result that except for the elephants that were actually finished at this point, the rest is still languishing in my room in the same state like, 2 weeks or so later. Gah. I hope I'll have the energy to actually finish them this week!

I started the challenge here in January: https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress/109699531519354873

#Art #Animals #Watercolor #WIP

Oona (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images I started a new #100dayschallenge! This time the theme is drawing animals. It is super enjoyable so far - I had another one going last year about drawing with a nib pen or brush in ink, but somehow lost steam there. So this is something fun and sweet for me to ease into. And I am still getting my ink drawing workouts in, even if I am using mostly my Noodler's Ahab fountain pen + various brush pens for these. #Ink #Art #Drawing #Animals

Mastodon.ART

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 16, 2023

day 41 of my #100DaysChallenge of #drawing #animals. For this day I first did some #chicken studies from video (paused), then went to draw my neighbor's living chickens. Then took my rough (very!) sketches home and added some details (heads, feet) from my by now accumulated generalized chicken knowledge.

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 18, 2023

day 42 of drawing animals. I repeated the chicken dance of doing some studies from ref pics and then going out to draw my neighbors' living chicken, adding some details (heads, feet) back home. I enjoyed playing around with different ways to use line and #watercolor in these, not sure which version (lines first, watercolors first, broad watercolored lines first) is my favorite yet. I might have to play around with them some more...

#Art #Animals #Ink

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 20, 2023

On day 43 of drawing animals I had the urge to change it up a bit, and thus drew these deep sea creatures on black paper. I started with rough sketches in medium grey colored pencil, then put some white gouache on top, wetting the individual shapes first and then working the gouache into them wet-on-wet. The first drawing got finished with some additional colored pencil in white and some faint colors, the second one is still in the gouache-only WIP state.

#Art #MarineAnimals

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 21, 2023

days 44-46 of drawing #animals back to black #ink

(I got my scans & drawings mixed up while my scanner was broken down so the number on the file differs from the number on the paper. I am sticking to the number on the file because that is easier, and from ca. day 55 on or so stuff is aligned again 😅 )

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 23, 2023

days 47-49 of drawing #animals . Simply drawing in ink is so nice! I love the different strokes and patterns that develop when I have the time and energy to really get into them. So much fun.

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 24, 2023

day 50 of drawing animals. Vultures rock.

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 27, 2023

days 51 & 52 of drawing animals, still deep in the vulture zone

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 28, 2023

On days 53 & 54 of drawing #animals I started a deep dive on #flamingos trying to assemble a bunch of "flamingo drawing cheat sheets" for myself. The idea was to collect all the information I would need to enable me to draw flamingos without reference in the future. So these contain a bit more details than my usual sketches, crammed unto A3 sheets rather than my usual A4s.

#MastoArt #Ink #Birds

Oona is pushing paint around Mar 29, 2023

On day 55 of #drawing #animals I continued looking at flamingos, delightfully weird flamboyant flamingos, this time with some color studies, still gathering information for my personal flamingo drawing cheat sheet.

#MastoArt #Watercolor

Oona is pushing paint around

on day 55 of #drawing #animals I also started a bunch of more involved larger watercolors of Flamingos, and continued working on them on day 56. Here are some progress pics :) The first one I consider finished, though I got some feedback on it from a teacher that made me consider doing a second version. Maybe some day!

#MastoArt #watercolor #birds

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 5, 2023

more of the WIPs that did not get a color pass yet 😅 , none at all

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 8, 2023

on day 57 of #drawing #animals I was back to doing a simple line sketch, even if I was doing flamingos yet again

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 9, 2023

on days 58 & 59 of #drawing #animals I focused on #insects, such beautiful varied weird creatures! I could easily fill another 100 days just with drawing bugs :)

I lost my patience on the first image studying the structure of dragonfly wings. I still want to get back to it at some point, or to something similar. Want to get better at nailing those shiny lacy intricate structures, but so far my inking skills falter when confronted with them.

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 10, 2023

on day 60 of #drawing #animals I drew some #goldfish :)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 13, 2023

on days 61 & 63 of #drawing #animals I finished some of the watercolors I had started on day 39 (https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress/110017016364567217 ).

This #wasp and #frog were _very_ satisfying to finish, and I learned a lot from them. In fact I learned so much that I immediately had the urge to start over with new versions or very similar images at least, but did not yet get around to that. So many things!

#insects #amphibians #art

Oona (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images days 39-40 of my #100DaysChallenge of drawing animals. I continued working on some watercolors and more intentionally to be finished stuff - with the result that except for the elephants that were actually finished at this point, the rest is still languishing in my room in the same state like, 2 weeks or so later. Gah. I hope I'll have the energy to actually finish them this week! I started the challenge here in January: https://mastodon.art/@playinprogress/109699531519354873 #Art #Animals #Watercolor #WIP

Mastodon.ART

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 14, 2023

on day 62 of #drawing #animals I drew a bunch more goldfish, trying to find image references with poses other than a straight profile. I still want to draw more #goldfish :)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 15, 2023

on days 64 & 65 of #drawing #animals I dove into the movement patterns of #herons in flight

#Art #Ink #Ballpoint #Birds

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 18, 2023

on days 66 & 67 of drawing animals I drew a bunch of frogs. frogs are cool, and can do funny things with their legs. And their tongues, still need to study frog range of movement and frog tongue action at some point ...

#Art #Ink #Frogs #Amphibians

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 19, 2023

days 68-70 of #drawing #animals just whatever misc struck my fancy

#Ink #Art #Sharks #Birds #Frog

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 24, 2023

I spent days 71 & 72 of drawing animals #drawing #lizards :)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 25, 2023

days 73 & 74 of drawing animals featuring a bunch of #parrots and another #lizard

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 29, 2023

interrupting my usual (attempt at a) strictly chronological order of posting drawings because #InverteFest is still going on so the Vertebrae have to take a backseat for now. Instead I present to you these charming lil #spiders, which were days 79 & 80 of drawing animals respectively :)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 29, 2023

also, this couple of flies, or day 83 of #drawing #animals

#InverteFest #Art #Ink #Insects

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 30, 2023

most of my #InverteFest fun I had with Octopoi though! Such endless variety of forms, so much to learn from drawing them :)

(These were days 81-84 of my 100 days of drawing animals.)

#Art #Ink #octopus

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 30, 2023

...and the last page of octopoi.

#InverteFest #Animals #Art #Ink

Oona is pushing paint around May 2, 2023

some of the vertebrates that I had skipped posting in favor of invertepartying - these were days 75, 76 & 78 of drawing #animals

#Ink #Art #Cats

Oona is pushing paint around May 3, 2023

day 77 of #drawing #animals I spent with some #tigers - they are so much fun to draw it almost feels like cheating. With those fancy patterns they make my drawing look good for me without me even having to think/design much of anything. I can just coast on the beauty of the tiger 🙃

But also, whenever I draw animals with interesting patterns I get an itch to dive deeper into Gregory Bateson's writings on pattern formation in nature 🤓

Oona is pushing paint around May 8, 2023

For #Mermay my original plan was to do a study of a marine animal every day, and then turn that animal into a humanoid somehow. Alas, that turned out to be much trickier and my energy esp. much lower than expected, so my mermaids are only a bunch of very scraggly ballpoint sketches so far. But the marina animal studies actually did happen, so are some hermit #crabs. Simultaneously day 85 of #drawing #animals.

Oona is pushing paint around May 9, 2023

Some sea #turtles for my 86th day of drawing animals as well as #Mermay

Oona is pushing paint around May 9, 2023

on day 87 of drawing animals I was tired and completely underestimated how hard giant #Isopods would be to draw for me. I am still a bit confused about it. Might try them again some time when I am more awake, maybe that really _was_ the thing that tripped me up. Still, I did not falter! And still sticking with the marine theme for #Mermay.

#Ink #Art #Invertebrates

eekaettken Nov 28, 2023

@playinprogress

Great work, especially the one in the middle looks very good!

Oona is pushing paint around Nov 28, 2023

@eekaettken thank you!

Faith 👋 drawing | knitting May 3, 2023

@[email protected] these are great!

Oona is pushing paint around May 3, 2023

@Dartilyart thank you!

Andreyka Apr 25, 2023

Отличные зарисовки! 👍

uberyx!Apr 24, 2023

@playinprogress Total schöne Echsen 🦎

@playinprogress oh my goodness 🥹 💖

(If you're ever looking for more ref photos of cresties, you're welcome to use any of @Squishy . :D)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 25, 2023

@Rheall Oh hey thank you! Squishy looks delightful, that might very well happen :)

Stacey Apr 18, 2023

@playinprogress Ah these are rad! I had a pet frog when I was a kid. They’re a bit shy about eating, he’d wait until I wasn’t looking before he would, most of the time.

Maja Mielke Apr 18, 2023

@playinprogress these are amazing!

myrmepropagandist Jul 10, 2023

@playinprogress That wasp is majestic.

Oona is pushing paint around Jul 10, 2023

@futurebird thank you!

Max, overwintering bug Apr 9, 2023

@playinprogress I love the drawings ! As far as I'm concerned, you managed to capture the vibe of the wing veins very well. Even if it's not complete, the Dragonfly characteristics are there which I like.
I also love the Dynastinae, it's lovely.

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 9, 2023

@StrepsipZerg Thank you!

Still, if you should happen to encounter anyone drawing insect wings especially well, I'd be grateful for a link or other tip...

Max, overwintering bug Apr 9, 2023

@playinprogress eh I don't know anybody on the art side, and I'm not really an artist myself.
I know Paleoentomologist are usually very good at wing venation as it's an important criteria for characterizing fossil imprints. Maybe that could help ?

Max, overwintering bug Apr 9, 2023

@playinprogress but I will try to note it somewhere in my head and send you the link if I see something along those lines :)

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 9, 2023

@StrepsipZerg It does! I have a bit of a frustration with the narrow scope of animal drawing and animal art anatomy instruction - they tend to focus exclusively on mammals, and 90% only do cats, dogs, horses & cows at that. Then there are other specialists for drawing birds, but really barely anything afaict on insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish etc. It makes me a bit sad because I find all those animals beautiful, too.

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 9, 2023

@StrepsipZerg So I have to cast a bit of a wider net to get more information on their anatomy & structure and all that...

neville park Apr 10, 2023

@playinprogress beautiful!! I love the weevils

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 10, 2023

@nev 🙏

Shield Maiden Apr 10, 2023

@playinprogress Beautiful...they lend themselves so well to pen and ink drawings.

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 10, 2023

@Judeet88 Thank you! They really do :)

JoJaSciPo Apr 10, 2023

@playinprogress

(NOT Sensitive material! I can't turn the warning off!😂 )

They're all very nice! If I were to write another dinosaur etc book, I'd hope to commission something from you! I doubt if I'll write another of them though!

Here's one from my book, by Kevin Caley:

Oona is pushing paint around Apr 12, 2023

@strangetruther Thank you :) I really like the dinosaurs of William Stout 🥰 (but no idea how accurate they are)

JoJaSciPo Apr 12, 2023

@playinprogress

I'd never heard of him, but this one of his is quite cute!

He DOES seem to incorporate modern features to his dinos, though they seem to be a bit wrinkly and dewlap-y like the old style, but on the whole, to my eye quite realistic.

But that just means they are rather like what Greg Paul would approve of, though Greg's dinos are quite slim, whereas Bakker's are more muscley and buxom. I'd say WS is more like Bakker.