This 8x10" portrait of Peaches the cockatiel is my belated half of an art trade with a friend who drew Muffin's portrait. You may recall a bunch of posts called "Peaches in Progress" where I tried making a digital composition of her bird. LOL although I'm old enough that I should be able to produce digital art, I'm just not very good at it and went ( Read more... )

Titled "At Home With Muffin" this is part of my "homebody" series. The original idea was the same, but I planned to make Muffin a 3D paper sculpted object. Then I tried for a hybrid object. Neither approach worked and I fell back on what I knew--pet portraits ( Read more... )

I can use a small amount of my work week for professional development, so instead of listening to webinars, I decided to work on Peaches this past week. Digital art is totally work related. The graphic designers had to learn a package called Rebelle for some technical illustrations, so I'm just keeping up with the Joneses. The trouble is that it's ( Read more... )

Here's what I saw--I had to wait on the gadwall ID. Unfortunately it wasn't my day to take photos--most of them weren't worth showing off, but they are keepers for IDs at least ( Read more... )

Happy June ( Read more... )

I decided to take my sketches into Clip Studio Paint, but I created a fruit label frame in CorelDraw first to audition some colours and cut down on the amount of layers. I played around with some fonts and really like this one called Loki Cola because it had the fruit label font feel. I have to make the curved shape and then flow the text along a ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I wanted to do an art trade with my friend was that I'm so lousy at digital art. I haven't touched Clip Studio Paint since an earlier post with a budgie. I'm old enough where I should have mad skills, but I don't. Putting together a digital drawing isn't very intuitive to me and I struggle with making it "look right" compared to ( Read more... )

My goodness, I'm behind on some stuff! I'm doing a digital art trade with another cockatiel mom. Here's Muffin! I will start posting sketches and stuff of her bird, Peaches, soon.


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I'm teaching myself a new (to me) piece of software called Clip Studio Paint. For years I have seen people rave about this very affordable program and I'm joining that crowd. It's so easy to get up and running and make a decent looking picture. Here's my first real picture that I did in an afternoon. It's by no means a masterpiece, but it was ( Read more... )

I haven't been drawing or arting much lately as it's spring! Spring comes to Calgary kind of late, which means there is plenty to capture yet.


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