You might know I was experimenting with wet pan pastels on *Jack drawing...
I gave it up yesterday.
It wasn't working the way I was expecting to...
Once I have a wet pan pastels experience behind me, I can start the Raven's project, so I know it'll be fully DRY drawing
My reference is related to multiple photos available on Google search.
Originally I was planning to draw the tree, the bird on that tree, or some sort of photo blend, where there would be few (at least two) poses included...
After hardly thinking of the whole, after listening to your opinion, I ended up with a clue, to draw a portraiture of the Raven, where I can focus on expression of the bird itself...
Lets hope it will work...
I've chosen the pose, that works best for my concept plan, and I've begun free hand sketching outlines.
The rest of the bird (feathers) will be my imagination based on the others randomly chosen photos, where birds are young, or adult, random lighting and so on.
I'm not sure if I can get away regardinv copyright rights, at least I'm trying not to follow single photograph, but draw my art having in mind multiple references...
I am aware the copyrights it's grey area, and I'm doing my best guess to avoid making a direct copy based onto one photo only...
Once I was happy with the outline, I started adding random brush strokes, to make a rough sketch of the body, and I did some mapping of the feathers too...
This is how I can see it in my mind.
I decided to do background before I start more work on the bird.
It's because the feathers will be overlapping it, so I don't like to be struggling with background at later stage...
As you remember, I like the drawing to be kind of a drama mood...
I didn't plan the background, I just started layering colours I felt may be appropriate...
At this point I'm trying to find best way of applying the pastels to blend them nicely.
The effort you can see is achieved with hit or miss strokes of sponge, brush, finger...
I'll be happy for any feedback.
A4 Pastelmat, pastels.
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