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moonvoiceOr at the very least, someone who only drew birds?
A great deal of the following artwork was done when I was a youngin, but I'll let you know as you go through.
This was all done with dots. Dots I say! Even though it looks like lines, teeny tiny dots! I am *drumroll* insanity! (2003ish, I think).
Great Blue Heron. For about a year, I was determined to draw every heron species that was known to humankind at the time. And you know what? I did. And not only that, I then formatted a website called 'The Heron / Falcon Archipelago' and put them all up, complete with descriptions and pictures and everything. (Including every Falcon species). And then you know what I did? I shut it down. Threw out most of the artwork in a fit of self-hatred, and you know... you should just never let a teenager with self-hate issues keep her own artwork, just saying.
Great-billed heron, all great and billy. This was when I still worked on cartridge paper people. Cartridge paper! Yegods.
Oh look! This was 2003. I believe that was the old A5 diary I used to sometimes draw in. Guess what, it's another great blue heron.
Also 2003, cross-hatching is the beeeeest. But look, it's actual proof that I do sometimes sketch! Badly. It's a black-necked stork.
This is a laughing turtle-dove. From 1999. I hated this bird. I hated it because the first three tries I kept getting the colours wrong. As a teenager, I mostly said 'you STUPID BIRD!' and kept trying. And I finally got the colours right, on a picture that had no background and was in all other ways, totally boring. Yeehah. Dear laughing turtle dove, no laughter for you, go DIAF.
It's random, the things that I draw. I have no idea why I drew this.
Look, it's a teeny tiny male Australian magpie-that-is-not-a-corvid!
Plz to be ignoring my wing feathers. Plz. They are bad. Look at my swoopy neck.
These birds, in all ways, belong in Alice in Wonderland. What are they, do I hear you asking? (Go with it). They are yellow spoonbills! I bet you'll never guess why they are called spoonbills. Anyway, this is one of my favourite pictures that I've done as a youngin, a) because I did it so young but it's still got the pretence of a setting, b) because look at the white on white, holy freaking crap, it's awesome, and then you know what I did? I went and blu-tacked it to the wall and got a freaking grease stain on it that will never ever come out.
Whistling heron is badass. Look how badass it is. It pwns all the other herons. It says 'I am so fucking cool, I am the only heron with all the primary colours on my body. That's how cool I am. Yo.'
A great deal of the following artwork was done when I was a youngin, but I'll let you know as you go through.
This was all done with dots. Dots I say! Even though it looks like lines, teeny tiny dots! I am *drumroll* insanity! (2003ish, I think).
Great Blue Heron. For about a year, I was determined to draw every heron species that was known to humankind at the time. And you know what? I did. And not only that, I then formatted a website called 'The Heron / Falcon Archipelago' and put them all up, complete with descriptions and pictures and everything. (Including every Falcon species). And then you know what I did? I shut it down. Threw out most of the artwork in a fit of self-hatred, and you know... you should just never let a teenager with self-hate issues keep her own artwork, just saying.
Great-billed heron, all great and billy. This was when I still worked on cartridge paper people. Cartridge paper! Yegods.
Oh look! This was 2003. I believe that was the old A5 diary I used to sometimes draw in. Guess what, it's another great blue heron.
Also 2003, cross-hatching is the beeeeest. But look, it's actual proof that I do sometimes sketch! Badly. It's a black-necked stork.
This is a laughing turtle-dove. From 1999. I hated this bird. I hated it because the first three tries I kept getting the colours wrong. As a teenager, I mostly said 'you STUPID BIRD!' and kept trying. And I finally got the colours right, on a picture that had no background and was in all other ways, totally boring. Yeehah. Dear laughing turtle dove, no laughter for you, go DIAF.
It's random, the things that I draw. I have no idea why I drew this.
Look, it's a teeny tiny male Australian magpie-that-is-not-a-corvid!
Plz to be ignoring my wing feathers. Plz. They are bad. Look at my swoopy neck.
These birds, in all ways, belong in Alice in Wonderland. What are they, do I hear you asking? (Go with it). They are yellow spoonbills! I bet you'll never guess why they are called spoonbills. Anyway, this is one of my favourite pictures that I've done as a youngin, a) because I did it so young but it's still got the pretence of a setting, b) because look at the white on white, holy freaking crap, it's awesome, and then you know what I did? I went and blu-tacked it to the wall and got a freaking grease stain on it that will never ever come out.
Whistling heron is badass. Look how badass it is. It pwns all the other herons. It says 'I am so fucking cool, I am the only heron with all the primary colours on my body. That's how cool I am. Yo.'
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Date: 2010-06-23 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-23 01:33 pm (UTC)I love your bird art :B
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Date: 2010-06-23 02:23 pm (UTC)Hahaha!! This has me dying laughing!
It's always fun to look back at old work.
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Date: 2010-06-23 02:40 pm (UTC)Spoonies are awesome, I'm seeing an awful lot around the place this year.
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Date: 2010-06-23 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-23 03:00 pm (UTC)and your art always, always blows me away.
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Date: 2010-06-23 03:25 pm (UTC)Also, I just realized that I never learned to cross hatch. Not even in the drawing class I took in college. Odd. And probably not a great thing.
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Date: 2010-06-23 05:04 pm (UTC)Spoonbills are hilarious. I kind of want to meet one in person.
The Laughing Turtle Dove, wow, those colors.
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Date: 2010-06-23 08:45 pm (UTC)I can sympathise with the stippling. I do artefact illustration as part of my work, and I'm a stickler for stippling. I just can't do shading with lines without it looking really bad! Unfortunately, I sometimes have to because the convention for glazed medieval pottery is for lines to be used as opposed to stippling.
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Date: 2010-06-23 10:16 pm (UTC)Word. Truthfully, I'm still not to be trusted entirely with my own art.
Whistling heron also has a badass name.
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Date: 2010-06-25 08:16 pm (UTC)These are lovely, and I especially enjoyed the spoonbills.
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