Drawing a Day 130 - Half Arsed Pigeon in Felt Tips

Drawing a Day 129 - City Pigeon in Felt Tips.

Drawing a Day 113 - Bread? Yes?

Drawing a Day 24 - Pigeon Practice

Drawing a Day 16 - Pigeon in Top Hat.

So tired - resolution for tomorrow - not to be drawing at one in the morning. Did some open heart surgery on my computer today - new hard drive and RAM, it's got a new brain!!! Photographed my prints, will post fat dragon in the morning and after that I have a snake and some trees that need my attention, if I manage to wake up. 

The bear strikes back - Pigeon shadowing.

Started printing the pigeon this week. Another fail of a day. Over printed - 45 sheets of the best quality paper I had trying to give myself a bit of room for mistakes - hoping for 30 good ones. Someone called it a chicken and then I got self conscious about people looking at them so went back for a closer look. I'd Printed the whole lot without realising they all had the shadow of 'Honey. What honey?' in the top corner. It's not there until you see it and then it's definitely there. Grumpy and embarrassed at the scale of cock up I went home pissed off at myself, not sure whether to bin them immediately or see if anything was salvageable. Back into studio next day to find it full of a surprise workshop. Whole place hectic and workshop overlapping on the bed I'd booked. Prints definitely not salvageable. Mini melt down went medium.

Final Pigeon Prints. Marbled & Blended Backgrounds.

48 hour pigeon power!

Printed for 6 hours on the Thursday, finished the cat print with a bit of bonus time on a spare bed. Got home at 10pm with 6 hours printing the next day and no artwork ready to go. Stayed up til 2 drawing/prepping an emergency pigeon and managed to print all four layers for around 35 prints by 6 o clock the next day. Win!

Pencil work

Black layer.

Drawing white layer - inking up - feather head. 

Reference print out 2am - tired.

 First colour blend in four years.

Layer 2 - pink feet and eye.

White on white layer 3 on screen. 

White feathers. Registering on acetate. 

White on white close up. Super subtle but nice in the flesh.

Layer 4 black.

Packing up.
 

Final print.