Daily Sketch Day 80 - Pigs

On this 80th day, I'm still on Drawing Farm Animals.  What with  just 19 more days left, I'd like to circle back to quadrupeds. So my drawing for the day- pigs.  I sketched these out faster than my normal.  I kept my drawings loose and decided to do away with colors and just added a bit of white in some areas. Because it's Sunday, I'd like to finish early so I can relax after.

Daily Sketch Day 75 - Ducklings

Today's Daily sketch is a  group of ducklings.  Ducklings depend on their mother for survival, to feed them,  shelter them  and protect from predators. But sometimes, they are orphaned if their eggs hatched quite late and the mother left the nest and led her ducklings to water.

Daily Sketch Day 65 - Eurasian Tree Sparrow

 

 

 

Photo ref cr: Tonji Ramos

This bird is known in the Philippines as a Mayang Simbahan (Church Maya), probably because it's  usually seen, peddled and sold outside the churches. But it's actually called the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, found in Eurasia and Southeast Asia.  While this bird is viewed as a pest in some parts of Australia, in China and Japan it is widely celebrated in oriental art. 

Daily Sketch Day 62 - Paroaria

I discovered this bird while researching for today's sketch subject.. It's the Red-crested Cardinal. known as the Paroaria.  It's a songbird with a prominent red head and chest that belongs to the tanagers species and not the cardinals species despite the name. One thing's for sure, I will never run out of subjects to draw, and it would probably take me a hundred lifetimes to cover all the different species just in the animal and bird category alone. I haven't started with the fishes, insects and humans yet.  No more excuse for me to say that I don't know what to draw.

Kitten Playing - Drawing & Painting Process (Time-lapse)

   

        This painting is part of my Daily Sketch personal project, using. ArtRage 4 as my drawing app. It has a script recorder that records all the brush strokes that I did. I always start with a rough sketch of the subject, Then adjusting the size, construction, and proportion as I go. For the kitten's fur, I used the brush preset called Mimosa.mostly. Then with the Palette Knife tool I scraped and smudged the colors into hair at the edges.

Music used: Hyperfun by Kevin Macleod ( Incompetch. com)