[Art] New Zealand kaka sketch, for Losing Altitude.

[moonvoice]

Sketch the second!

A lot of the details in this one won't come out until the inking process. I don't like layering in graphite, since it gets messy very quickly (for me, I'm a messy sketcher). But anyway, there will be more rainforest details in the background.

Two more sketches left today, though only one will be going up here.


New Zealand kaka

Comments

[feralkiss]

I'm a messy sketcher too. But I like laying down most of my lines, so what I've been doing is letting myself being messy on the sketch, and then use the glass part of my desk with a lamp to... you know what I mean? I don't remember what it's called in your language. I trace my sketch a second time on a clean piece of paper like that.

[moonvoice]

Ah yeah, I know what you mean; I know a few artists who use a similar technique (I think it is just called tracing). I don't use that myself, because illustration board is solid/opaque as opposed to paper - even with a light-source like a lamp moving directly through it. But the way I do it seems to work at the moment!

Huzzah for us messy sketchers! :D

[silverjackal]

I really love the composition on this one! And the whole "reaching out with the beak" expression is very natural. :)

[moonvoice]

Also mosses, mosses on the branches! Mosses! :D

[starstrider]

I really like the composition of this one! Makes me think of when you're in the woods looking up at the sky through the trees. =)

[moonvoice]

Eeee, that's awesome.

[spider_fox]

I have 2 of them taxidermied at my school! They pinged me a few months ago too, though I've been bad at getting around to drawing them. They are interesting though.

[moonvoice]

I love them they are so interesting; best colouration of a parrot ever, imho.

[ariestess]

Pretty!