Asking me to draw animals is dangerous

[benchilada]

Originally published at benchiladaland. You can comment here or there.

I was talking to Nadja about how hard it is to get back into a groove of doing art, and she told me to draw a peacock.

I asked if it should be me trying to draw from photo reference or my usual “what does a peacock look like in my head” method?

We decided that I should do the

Comments

[franklanguage]

It's great; I particularly love the literal eyespots.

[internet_sampo]

I agree! I especially like his head.

[benchilada]

That's just about all I could remember, other than their head thingies.

[rick_day]

I see some slight improvement with pastel use over the past decade. Carry on, 'chelada

[benchilada]

I feel like I've entered my next period of drawing.

It's "stylistically exactly like before, only I just drew it."