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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

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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 Apr 5, 2023

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.

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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

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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.