February - Week One

Bird Shapes

Drawing birds has often felt somewhat intimidating. There’s a lot of room for getting it wrong and they don’t exactly stay still for very long in order to observe them. I have been trying to change my viewpoint this week and rather then focus on drawing them perfectly or correctly I have been trying to capture their shapes, movement and energy.

The plan was to draw in my garden but the weather this week has had other ideas, we have had lots of rain and sleet here, but I managed to capture a few videos of goldfinch to work from and found it really interesting pausing these videos at different points to show the goldfinch shapes and draw from there. They aren’t brilliant quality but I will add them to this post for reference too. Aside from that I have used images online and enjoyed looking through books I have for reference too.