Strandman
Well-known member
Ah!, yes, I can see how useful the reference material comes in. I have often wondered how much photos and skins are used when illustrating - I guess quite a lot in many cases. I appreciate that if the 'meat and potatoes' of the species portayed (the jizz) is lacking then all the 'window dressing' (can't think of a better description at the moment!) is pointless. The tricky bits been done - jizz of stoat has already been cptured in your sketch.
Cheers
Russ
you ask the right question there- there's a higher realm out there where artists are truly working off and from sketches to finished works, some of whom we are lucky to see on here
but meantimes I had half an hour this morning to sneak away to Abberton (bunking off from spectating a very conveniently located and scheduled football match in the badlands west of colchester) and there a lovely flock of lapwing, with a floating reed amongst a stacked group of four birds, reed cutting the reflection- so my drawing is really just to record the idea: effectively its not even to record the image and only part way to getting the jizz right- for me its more a way of capturing the excitement at seeing something that's maybe going to be a picture..a sort of exclamation mark, form of notation, almost could be done in words: from here I have some mobilphone-thru-scope snaps and we'll see how far using them sucks the life out of the sketch
back on planet stoat I thought I would have one more go at it- here's the disappointing drawing #2 from above rotated thru 90degrees to reduce the roadkill feel and reintroduce boing factor