Bird Studies: A personal project of daily bird drawings.
I started this project after realizing I was not drawing bird feet very well. I found some photo references and drew a better bird foot. The foot looked a little strange on its own, so I drew a blackbird to go with it. I drew a broadbill the next day, a bird I had recently found a photo of online and wanted to draw. The series continued from there, with a new bird each day. I have tried to stay within my original pattern (as seen in the first row below) of woodland, tropical, water, and desert birds, in that order.
I spent a lot of my childhood watching and drawing birds, but hadn't drawn many for awhile. This project has reminded me how much I enjoy it and become a fun daily habit. Check out the rest of the birds with daily updates on the project's Tumblr blog: http://renatagrieco.tumblr.com/
The first sixteen birds. Woodland birds in the first column from left, tropical birds in the second, water birds in the third, and desert birds in the fourth.
Brewers Blackbird. This blackbird was the first bird I drew for the project. I wanted to focus on the bird and didn't have a lot of time for a detailed background, so I used a circle of flat color.
Malayan Banded Pitta
Common Tern
Costa's Hummingbird
