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Okay well after seeing all of your wonderful sketches, I got really inspired and did some sketches of this Sharp-Tailed Grouse, through my scope. I did some really rough gesture sketches from the live bird, and filled in some detail when I got back to my hotel. Not the greatest but then Im still learning and pretty new at drawing live birds. Normally I draw from photos.

My notes need a lot of work lol! This was less for identification and more for studying the birds form. I kinda hoped the sketch would speak for itself, but I see I need to work on the notes though.
 

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Lovely sketches. Drawing from live birds is really hard. I almost invariably get the shape from a photo or memory then add the plumage I can see.
 
Actually they are trial and mostly error.. I'm not back with a pen once I have the shape right... getting the shape is all down to mood and luck!


The 1st WR sand was done live.. in the garden, the second was the tidier versio I sent, along with the original to the national rarities committee!
 

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Jane Turner said:
Actually they are trial and mostly error.. I'm not back with a pen once I have the shape right... getting the shape is all down to mood and luck!


The 1st WR sand was done live.. in the garden, the second was the tidier versio I sent, along with the original to the national rarities committee!

Very impressive example of detailed bird ID'ing.
A far cry from... 'get a photo at all costs and don't worry about actually looking at the bird'
 
Jane Turner said:
Actually they are trial and mostly error.. I'm not back with a pen once I have the shape right... getting the shape is all down to mood and luck!


The 1st WR sand was done live.. in the garden, the second was the tidier versio I sent, along with the original to the national rarities committee!

Yeah I find shape hard to capture as well. One thing I do is I will get a pose down on paper with a rough gesture drawing, and then I go home and get out a guide or photo off the net, and refine the shape, add plumage characteristics I might have missed to make a finished drawing.

Im still learning to do this though but thanks to this forum, I was really inspired by your drawings and everyone elses.
 
Jane Turner said:
Oh dear all those lovely field notes have been lost. David.. everyone else I insist you put them all back... :)
What, these?
 

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Or these?
 

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Just bumping this up after the discussion about field notes etc

Here is a page that is more about the story than the birds. 15 years on it makes great reading
 

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Its a pity that great thread on field notes went the way of the terminally lost in the great crash. It was full of great examples from many forum members
 
I agree - really excellent sketches!

Both inspiring and daunting... I'm off to buy a new sketchbook right now in fact. There are some robins, starlings and chimney swifts in the backyard definitely in need of some drawing.

Brad
 
Here is a 1982 page from my permanent log. Alas the field notes from that long ago are long gone. An early twitch for a couple of new gulls!
 

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Tim Allwood said:
yeah,

some of Clouseau's sketches were fantastic

esp the Norfolk albatross

Tim
Surely some mistake Tim? He only joined in April.........apparently ;)

Cover blown?
 
Just found this - A White-billed Diver from 1987. The description goes onto a third page, but is mostly about the beer in the pub I could see it from and how it dived like a sumbarine!
 

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Here´s something quite new... a Raptor, hope you like it... Seen at the north coast of the Isle of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea (Nature Reserve Grüner Brink- always worth a visit!)
 

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