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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EliS" data-source="post: 1199192" data-attributes="member: 65340">Revolution!I found a "new" (not so new I guess, but I hadn't just figured I could do this like this) way to do my scetching and I much prefer it to the pencil one! At least it seems to work better than the pencil for me. Using a light color pencil, in this case very light grayish blue, I can get a better scetch done than with a pencil. Huh? Interesting. I can start with very very light blurry line and mess up all I want without having to worry about dark lines I can't get rid of. When the right form is there, I just press harder and voila! There's the bird! And if I wan't to, I can get some darker shade at hand and work on the light scetch, giving it more depth and shape (or at least that's the plan, we'll see what happens with my color pencil revolution). I actually did a test - tried the regular pencil and the color one on paper and did similar poses of a bird. The color pencil ones were the ones that looked closer to what I had in mind.Today I got an interesting call - and I left a book store super fast to go see some birds a friend of mine had found. And... Well, I'm not telling what it is, because I want to see if it can be IDd from these scetches. In field I ended up making some not so good messy scetces + just watching the birds. At home I spent some 10 minutes staring at photos of the species, refreshing my memories. Then I put the photos away, and brought back in mind the sight of the birds, and started scetching (with the Solway Blue color pencil).No need to try ID the Ringed plover and the Wood sandpiper (they're purely memory based and need some working on, if I end up making something more finished based on these scetces - or of these scetches).EDIT: Uh, just realised the beaks aren't nearly long enough, gotta edit the scetches, but I'm not reposting them tonight, I need sleep. But let's see, if they can be identified despite the beaks.</blockquote>

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