Showcase sunday // That one time I drew a bird with real pencils

Most of the art I work on involves digital painting or photo manipulation so I thought it would be fun to show off one of the rare times that I participated in a more traditional art challenge!

Little Birdy:

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@tonyr is having a challenge where you have to draw one of the three images provided only in pencils/coloured pencils. It's meant to be a fun challenge where you practice art in a more traditional sense and also helps you progress and learn from others! This is especially useful for me as I almost exclusively draw and paint digitally and it has been ages since I picked up a pencil. It really made me appreciate how easy digital is as you can start working with less forethought and change things later.

process steps:

final pencil result (I cheated and added colors after for the final, final result, it was meant to be pencil only!):

Seeing this kind of gives me the urges to get my pencils out and smudge around with my fingers. There's definitely a more tangible feeling to working with real materials and though it has it's drawbacks (you have to be better, no transform or liquify tools to cheat with!) it gives a unique sense of accomplishment.

Lastly, @tonyr.... are you still around? I see you haven't posted since March, come back!