Tag: Illustration
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20231005
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20230413 – Schwarzwald
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Happy, not perfect.
A lesson I’m still trying to internalize.
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20230320
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20230316
Pattern making + Affinity Designer practice + favorite theme: Birds -> this!
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20230314
Today I stepped away from the abstract, organic, hand-drawn fill patterns I’ve recently done. I explored a more typical gift-wrapping paper pattern to familiarize myself further with Affinity Designer and because I wanted to try my hand at one. Residents of Berlin might recognize the color scheme of the municipal garbage processing services, the BSR…
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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.
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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…
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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…