Warblers exercises in pencil, crayon drawing, watercolor, C.K., 5/19 & 5/20, 2014

Warblers - exercises in pencil, crayon drawing, watercolor, C.K., 5/19 & 5/20, 2014
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Sheet of 4-up exercises in graphite pencil:
a) wiro sketch to feel and express the volume of the bird figure - you can use a reference photo.
b) continuous line drawing of the same photo.
c) color in the background areas without outlining. You create a white bird figure in the process. This a kind of negative shapes drawing.
d) color in the bird figure without using outlines. Define the marking areas by creating white lines as differentiation.

Sheet of parts practice: eyes and beak, head

Create a crayon drawing using some aspects of the graphite exercises.

Monochrome watercolor in 'stencil' style, as in drawing exercise 'd'.