Feathers and Wings and Exciting things...

Been doing a few more drawings at Uni, theres some leaves and feathers that I've been working on the last few days...

And I had a surprise waiting for me when I got home today - I'd ordered some Blue Jay wings off eBay and they'd arrived. How gorgeous is that blue!

 #feather #drawing #leaves #bluejay #wings

Final Year

Just started my final year of Uni, how slightly terrifying!
Spent the last week getting back into the Uni mind set and carrying on with drawing. I've been making Mood boards, Market research boards and Colour boards, decorating my bay and finding a new - and exciting - way of making flowers so the petals curve better

This is just a normal tulip, nothing complicated to explain for once, and you can't really see on the pic how well it worked with the new shape but it does look a lot better.
 
#flower #tulip #final year #drawing #workbay

Feathers and Butterflies

Had another confusing drawing session. I started off easy, I did some butterflies in tissue paper and paper that were just normal colours...

Then I made a feather with the butterfly pattern and then I used the feather with the butterfly pattern but in the colour of yet another tulip. (The black one is tracing paper and got a bit creased in the cutting out stage, oops)

Well, it's not actually that confusing when explained like that lol I think I actually understood myself

 

#feathers #butterfly #drawing #tissue paper #tracing paper

Wing-Petals...

As opposed to Petal Wings, 2 completely different things. Wing-Petals are butterfly wings with the pattern of petals instead of petals with the pattern of a butterfly wing. I think I just confused myself lol.
I used another tulip (I got loads of good pics when I went to the Eden Project a few months back) for the pattern of my wings

I used tracing paper which made the wings look a bit more like butterfly wings - more delicate - and I do quite like how it turned out. I'll have to do more like that.

#butterfly #drawing #tulip #eden project #tracing paper

Raining again

Well, at least I'm not missing any good sunbathing time and it means I get more drawing done, yey.
I've managed a Peacock feather and a bunch of leaves so far. The peacock feather's my favourite :)

 #leaves #peacock #feather #drawing #watercolour

Art-ception!

Well, I hope you're ready to be confused with what I made today. It's a flower, but the petals are leaf shaped, with the pattern from a butterfly, in the colours of a peacock feather!
Maybe didn't turn out quite as I'd have liked, I might try something less confusing next time, but I still like it. It looks almost magic, like some blue flames you can carry round in a jar like Hermione made.

(The lower colour's a lot greener in real life, just didn't show too well in the photograph)

#flower #leaf #petal #peacock #butterfly #magic #flame #Hermione #HarryPotter

Butterfly flower

I had a bit of a play today, I was a bit bored of flowers and leaves and butterflies so I decided to put them all together (well, apart from the leaves, sorry for leaving you out leaves) and make a flower with butterfly wings as petals! I used the same structure as the Tulip from the other day as I thought that turned out quite well and it was a lot easier than the Tulip, mainly cos I knew what I was doing this time lol.

The butterfly's wing I chose to use was the Orange Tip Butterfly (named for obvious reasons) because it had a nice pattern and the male and female wing patterns were different enough to look like they were supposed to be different but similar enough to look like they were from the same butterfly - the black and white inner petal-wings are female and the orange tipped outer petal-wings are male.

 #butterfly #petal #wing #orange tip #drawing