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.

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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.
The following illustration is based on the “Alpenkrähe | Red-billed cough”.
After doing the Subalpine Warbler, I felt like I was not pushing myself in any way on these latest images. So in this
And at the end, I created a second interpretation on the same basis because I felt again like I was sticking too much to what I already established as a safe look.
Unfortunately, I did not write any notes while creating this illustration and thus there will not be any additional text to accompany the process-images.
Due to being busy at work & the Tendonitis flaring back up again I had to split the work on this image over multiple evenings.