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.

#Art #MarineAnimals

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.

#MastoArt #Ink

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.

#MastoArt #Watercolor

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

#Art #Birds

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.

#Art #Ink

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 :)

#Art #Ink

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

#Ink #Art

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

#InverteFest #Art #Ink #Insects

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

...and the last page of octopoi.

#InverteFest #Animals #Art #Ink

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

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 🤓

#Art #Ink

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.

#ink #art

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

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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

on day 88 of drawing animals I maybe stretched the definition of "marine animal" for #Mermay a bit, but I just really felt like drawing #lizards, and these Marine Iguanas dive and feed underwater. The sketches on the left side of the page are all of these guys moving under water. And they have the best faces and claws! I might have to do them a bunch more. Clawssssssssssss.

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some sea horses for day 89 of #drawing #animals :)

#ink #art

on day 90 of #drawing #animals, still honoring #Mermay, I finally drew some manatees! I'd been wanting to draw them for much too long. 10/10 would do again. Had fun playing around with re-wetting the ink of my pens & using a bit of wash. Sharp dry ink lines feel less appropriate for catching the diffuse light under water.

#Art #ink