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

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.

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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 😅 )

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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.

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day 50 of drawing animals. Vultures rock.

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

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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

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.

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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

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

#WIP

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

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

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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

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 :)

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

#Art #Ink #Ballpoint #Birds

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

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

#Ink #Art #Sharks #Birds #Frog

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

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