Night’s Plutonian shore

I took an old drawing and the text of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and turned it into a Word Cloud piece as an example for an upcoming assignment on positive and negative space. I thought the students would have fun doing them and that it might help get the idea across.

That's So Raven

Another "How To" progression redo, this time finishing up that crow sketch from before. 

At this point, you might be wondering what's with all the birds?

Well, as Alfred Hitchcock pointed out, birds are intensely creepy. 

They don't have teeth, but some of them eat meat and some of them even eat other birds, and what's going on with them downstairs? It's confusing. And in a disturbing bit of convergent evolution, there's even a type of magpie that can pass the mirror test for self awareness- something humans can't do until about one and half years old. And as Jurassic Park taught us, they used to be dinosaurs. And they can fly.

Creepy.

Hummingbird Go!

A "How To" progression for Art Class, a revision to a previous lesson example.

The crow didn't check his luggage because it was carrion

I was sorting through some end of year stuff, recycling what I didn't need anymore and found this quick unfinished bird sketch.

8-Bit Bird

An example for a bonus assignment using a grid to create 8-bit style characters.
It's a bird.

Keep Calm and Carrion

"Bring in the crows to peck the eagles."

Flip the Bird

I was playing around with the app "Brushes" again and this was the result.
I think it's pretty good for something I doodled with no reference point on the touch screen of my phone, but I guess if I have to add that many qualifiers about why I think it's okay then maybe it's not.
It's a matter of process vs. product I guess which is a big long rant that nobody would read, so suffice it to say it's a bird I drew with my finger.

Richelieu 2: Electric Boogaloo

Here's the finished cardinal drawing from the other day.