Tag: Birds

  • 20240305

    20240305

  • 20240125

    20240125

  • 20230316

    20230316

    Pattern making + Affinity Designer practice + favorite theme: Birds -> this!

  • 20230303 – Gartenrotschwanz

    This one never clicked. I’m not happy with the result, but it’s also not getting any better. I’ve been moving pixels around for a while now. I’ll let this one go as it is and probably redo it from the start at some point in the future.

  • 20230225 – Zilpzalp

    20230225 – Zilpzalp

    I really only chose to do a painting of this bird because I thought its name was funny. Also, it fits into the sequence. After doing the Starling illustration, I figured I might as well try to cover the seasons of a new year. The Great Tit for January and the Starling kicks off the…

  • 20230223 – Star

    20230223 – Star

    The “Star | Common Starling” is one of those birds I have a love/hate relationship with as a visual person. I can never decide whether I like it or not. There’s no harmony between areas of rest and areas of detail. Its base color is black, yet it’s slightly iridescent. It’s somewhat “too much” for…

  • 20230221 – Kohlmeise

    20230221 – Kohlmeise

  • 20230219 – Feldlerche

    20230219 – Feldlerche

    Needed to do some comfort-doodling today, so I decided to do a bird. Haven’t done one in ~2-3 years, I think. I was also inspired by all the bird photography that’s populating my Mastodon feed. I randomly picked a bird from one of my books and landed on the Feldlerche / common sky lark.

  • w20 2020

    w20 2020

    It’s been a while since I posted a bird. This one wasn’t based on a specific bird, it’s one of a few sketches I did exploring further simplification and abstraction of general bird shapes.

  • European Roller

    European Roller