Inktober is an online October event, the rules are simple – draw something in ink every day and post it. As I’d never drawn in ink, I took the alternative of pencilling first – which isn’t cheating. I didn’t manage every day either because I was ill towards the end of the month, but I got enough inks to feel like I did something, and it has had an impact on my drawing. The groups I drew at the end of the month I would never have considered trying at the beginning.
I picked birds as my theme because I wanted to work on my nature drawing, and I wasn’t very confident about birds, and capturing feathers on paper when I started.
Here’s a little video of all the birds.
The tunes in the background are also bird related and traditional. All of them are the tunes for songs – Lark in the clear air, The Nightingale (which my grandmother used to sing) and Twa Corbies (crows). All played by me, on a descant recorder. That was my first instrument, I lied about my age to get into recorder club – for five year olds and up. Start as you mean to go on….
November 20th, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Fabulous! Do you have to use a special sort of pen for drawing?
November 21st, 2017 at 8:55 am
They are fineline pens, Tom had them and didn’t get on with them….
November 21st, 2017 at 3:17 am
Most excellent! Enjoyed the show very much.
November 24th, 2017 at 12:38 pm
What a lovely project. I particularly liked the burrowing owls and the common crane oh and the Tom-owl. You definitely seem to have some kind of owl thing going on 🙂 I’d love to be able to draw birds, particularly wetland birds, to complement the short collection of bird-poems I’m very slowly working on. I guess it’s partly a case of skill and partly practice?
November 27th, 2017 at 7:57 am
I do indeed have a bit of a thing about owls. And yep, getting images to work from and just drawing from them, a lot, is the answer. If you can make intentional marks with a pencil, the rest is just graft in terms of being able to produce a likeness.