Left-hand Training Journal Entry #9: Pouters 🕊️

Also! This was my entry for CSP's 41st illustration contest. The theme was 'seasons' 🍁❄️☀️🌷. I wanted to get that wispy, snowy, cold look.

I think I do alright when I draw from reference, but making my own composition, poses, colour combinations, etc. is always a challenge. Need to practice and study more for sure. That said, I think this was a bit of a breakthrough for me hehe; I got myself to experiment with different brushes, techniques, layers and blending modes. And I had a fun time drawing this :D

pic i took years ago while driving home from work past the scary snail playground. i stopped in the night and pointed my headlights at it

an ornithologist pointed a microphone at a bird sitting alone on a wire and caught the sound of the bird singing a song at a decibel so low that it would be impossible for another bird to hear it, meaning the bird was singing quietly to itself I love life

Reference:

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this is literally me on tumblr.com

Painted the very cute graneledone boreopacifica aka deep sea octopus. Did you know that they have a brooding period of 53 months? (That's 4 and a half years!!!)

I made an instagram account >:o

This was my first time animating! Kind of tedious but I learned a lot :D Small changes really do make a big difference in animation

ALSO! I think you have to click on the embedded post here on Tumblr to start the video/animation -- it'll just look like a static picture otherwise

AN ACCIDENT

I turned the wrong reference layer on and this cute thing happened

war never changes