BYC’s BirdTober Thread

[Amer]

Cool! I love the orange goose(?) dude. And I really like working with alcohol markers, but you have to use a thick watercolor paper or else it will bleed a lot. Your drawings turned out great though!

I think he’s my fav too, along with the purple wobbly lady, though she blends in with the background.
Yeah, I figured that out. Good thing I have watercolor paper, maybe next time!
Speaking of watercolor, I used watercolor pencils to draw my all time favorite pigeon (and boy do I draw a lot of pigeons. The pink footed green pigeon! A violet-eyed rainbow of a bird! I decided the orange wasn’t saturated enough so went back to fix it, not realizing it was wet from the wing next to it, so RIP but otherwise it was fun to draw and turned out quite beautifully.View attachment 3302851

 

[Amer]

Very pretty! The wings are stunning.
And OH. MY. GOODNESS. I am SO jealous that you get to see snowy owls! That is so cool!

Thanks. I decided I wanted to challenge myself with the position.

 

[Bird is the word]

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Here’s a bunting for day two. I did this at the start of this year, but I’m recycling it for this so I’m not so terribly behind.
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And here’s a Pileated for yesterday! I love Pileated woodpeckers, they’re one of my favorite birds.

Very pretty

 

[Bird is the word]

Finally, today’s! Don’t know if this bird frequents swamps that much, but oh, well. They can! The blending is messy, because I didn’t have the right shade of colored pencils.
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I was going to do a kingfisher too today but didn't have time to do any drawings

 

[Bird is the word]

i am sooo behind i need to start catching up

 

[RDchicken99]

@Chickolett, would you be interested in participating? I saw your watercolors on the home page and thought they were stunning! And of course, if you don’t want to, that’s perfectly fine.

 

[RDchicken99]

I would have loved to but I think I'm already in a little over my head trying to keep up with the painting chickens thread. . Thank you though.

I've flipped through and everyones work here is awesome!

That’s totally fine! And I understand, I made a drawing animals thread too and for the brief time I had it I was drowning in requests. Feel free to hang out on here, though!

 

[Amer]

I decided to take the challenge today. I totally underestimated the bleedability of alcohol markers and totally overestimated the range of colors. It was weird trying to make a coherent project from only purple, green, orange, and brown. I knew I only had a few markers but seriously? Also I was missing at least one marker. Anyway, I liked messing around for once.