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This didn’t go exactly as planned. The one in the distance is supposed to be another female…in the distance. I think the scale is off. It’s too big and something about it makes it advance in the picture plane. I think maybe the eye is too large and too dark creating too much contrast. The female on the left is a bit too small. Oh, well. Still enjoyed an hour listening to music and sketching in ink!
Cheers,
Herb
The back one looks like a fluffy little young ‘un because of its big eye – doesn’t worry me at all, the discrepancy in size/proportion.
They’re very nicely observed and very good variation of tone and texture.Cheers, Maureen
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More excellent birds !
No I don’t think it is the scale of the background bird that throws it forward , perhaps more that it is isolated on the white paper.
Maybe a little more generalised suggestion of grass might stop the eye been led to it too ?
Using the two devices to deepen the perspective might have been too much used together ?
Although I do very much like the use of the S curve to lead the eye through the drawing.It’s funny isn’t it, all this intellectual analysis after the event – in which when in the process of making it NO or very little analysis was involved
Still it can help the next one on occasion
Cheers Mike
Nicely done Herb. I agree with all of the above, and my only reservation is the foreground bird is a little heavy-handed. Minor nit-picking though. I’m glad I’m not the only artist who listens to music while working. Oddly enough, I like bird-song sessions on YouTube. Makes a gloomy February Ontario day seem brighter.
John
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