Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bird. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Bird on a wire


It's snowing again! It snowed...it's... stopped...aww c'mon!!!

Well, blimey! One of the things that got me excited about moving up 'ere t' Yorkshire, was the premise that the county generally receives a lot of snow compared to the lower lands of the UK... so where is it? I don't know if weather systems are able to access the internet, or read, but if they can...I'm disappointed...

Here's hoping for more tonight so we can wake up, build a snowman (and a snow-dog)  and generally act like excited 8(+20) year olds!

Today's doodle comes courtesy of the lonely bird that was sat on top of a telephone wire in our street when we came back from shopping today. It looked very similar to this scene, apart from with a few more colours and much smaller snow flakes. I felt sorry for the feathery fellar, he was singing loudly in the cold snowfall, and no other bird was around to answer, so I felt like immortalising this rare beautiful and slightly solemn moment in the shape of a doodle. I hope he finds his friends soon!

Enjoy your evenings! Eat well, watch a cheesy movie, and most importantly snuggle up warm. Oh and if you are now developing a sense of karmic duty, put some food out for the birdies, they always appreciate it!

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Feathery!



Another Thursday, 6 days into December, 21. 18 days, 6 hours until Santa brings us all tonnes of presents! AAARGH all too exciting!!!

I decided to go for something a bit more challenging today, and rather than doing my usual bright solid blocks of colour technique, instead opted to do a feathery soft looking illustration of a wee birdy. The feathering effect is one that I learned from this rather amazing tutorial <--(click it go on!), so if you use Adobe Illustrator definitely give this one a go!

My inspiration was the small female blackbird that landed in my snowy garden this morning looking for food, I always wish that I could invite the garden birds in for a brew and a couple of bourbons, sadly they usually fly away when I suggest it, hmph, never mind!

Anyway! It is   STILL SNOWING   out there! It is freezing cold! I helped a feller this morning who fell off  of his bike because of the ice in our street, so please folks be bloomin' careful out there!!!

Wrap up warm, and make sure you are feeding the birdies at this time of year!

See you tomorrow? Yeah probably ;-)