14 September 07
Nuttall's Woodpecker, Again
Zeladoniac at Drawing the Motmot has some wonderful advice on better bird drawing here. She’s headed off to Panama for two weeks so now would be a good time for me to catch up on her archives.
The reason I’m posting a sketch off a Nuttall’s woodpecker again is because I wasn’t happy with the last one, which was, I’ll confess right now, drawn from a photo minutes after I’d seen a Nuttall’s outside my window, which flew off before I could get much of it down. It was a day where I was panicking about getting a “good enough” sketch done in time to post. Time to nip that kind of silliness in the bud. A half-drawn sketch is better than nothing… and, it’s always better to draw from life if you can. I’m really going to try Zeladoniac’s advice about the afterimage; oh, and get really familiar with the birds you see every day…
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