GREAT Cormorants!

I actually made these a couple weeks ago but only now getting round to blog posting about them, sooozzzz my bad! I was reminded to make this post cos I actually saw a Great Cormorant a couple of days ago. It was bootifuuullll! It was a juvenile though I think cos his chest was white. He was sunbathing then he went fishing in the water! It was amazing for how long it would stay underneath the water, and how far he could travel under the water.

ANYWAY that's enough on that. I'd like to draw more of these, so I'll get round to that in my new bigger square sketchbook, which I finally found! It's just a plain hardback black cartridge paper one, bout 8"x8" so i'm looking forward to filling it up with birdie wirdies!

Laters alligatorsss xxx

raving ravens!

I've been drawing a lot of birds recently (more than usual!) and last week I started doing a lot of ravens (no reason in particular I just like 'em). I like making more than one drawing of a bird, because they're always different, and I like drawing them sitting, flying, close ups etc.! I've decided to start making a book/sketchbook of birds like this... so for each double page there'll be one bird, and maybe more I don't know I'll see how it goes! But I'll let you know when I've started cos I need a nice sketchbook first!

Next post I need your help about business cards for me, I've started to design some but can't decide on which design or what background!!!

Anyhoo, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

xxx

sparrows and castles

 I drew this little birdie the other night. There's a sparrow nest in the roof next door, and we can see it flying from there to our garden to pick up the bird seed we put out, going back and forth to its nest every day. And she now uses the bird bath I put out, eee (a tray with water, not fancy y'know)!!!

This is the castle that I started drawing but realised I was running out of space because the castle was so long (see previous post)! So anyways, I finished it off today. I've noticed that I've kindof got two different drawing styles going on, which you can see here from the two drawings! Is this normal!? I like to exercise 'real-life' drawing, or 'looking-like-it-actually-is' drawing... I don't know what it's called! Anyway, I like to do that every now and then just for exercise so I don't get crap really.

xxx