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Quirky and cute Wildlife (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter lemurkat
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I love the facial expressions - from comical to cute, they're great.
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lemurkat
Avian Illustrator
There is 105 species we have as extinct you will have to start working your way through them
Well, I'm ceoncentrating on New Zealand birds, and I don't think we have that many extinct ones (I hope!). One I need to draw is an Adzebill - they were the only ones in the world. But I prefer to draw extinct birds from museum specimens (or photographs of such) because drawing from other people's illustrations leaves too much scope for error. And I haven't managed to find even a skeleton image yet. They were extinct pre-European in NZ time. So I've started with the extinctions of the last two centuries. Which also means I should draw the New Zealand crow.
lemurkat
Avian Illustrator
And thanks once more for all the kind comments. When I look at the other artist's work here I feel like a rank amateur - because I cannot even come close to capturing the realism that everyone else seems to manage with such skill. Everything I draw turns out cute.
Even ugly things:
This guy was drawn two years ago now and the original measured 2,5 x 3,5 inches - an artist trading card.
But then I think - I have a distinctive and quite different style, and that's important too.
Even ugly things:
This guy was drawn two years ago now and the original measured 2,5 x 3,5 inches - an artist trading card.
But then I think - I have a distinctive and quite different style, and that's important too.
colleenc
Well-known member
yes very true, and if you really want to do realism, it is a skill like all the others and can be learned, you would have to begin to rely on masses, and light and shade instead of lines...Realism is about light and edges, and making the piece conform in ways to how the eye naturally sees, with focal points and lost and found edges, and esp how the light falls in a painting.
It is a shift of mindset from where you delightfully are, you already have the drawing skills.
colleenc
Well-known member
I'm not suggesting you change, I like your style the way it is...but you can see these are already slightly more realistic, and if you went further and began to make more value changes from front to back and on the edges, you would have more realism so this illustrates my point below.
phil baber
Clipped Wing
Very nice work Lemurkat. Very happy and colourful work. I like it a lot.
