Feathers

Had a fun day playing with making feathers, the individual ones turned out reeeeally nice - I really like them - but when I cut them out they ended up with an edge of fabric all around them where I couldn't cut it away so tomorrow I'm gonna play around at dyeing the fabric before I sew them. But this is what I made today...

 I did the body with a brown thread and then sewed the darker brown on top to make the wing shapes before I realised that I was doing them in scale shapes, not feather shapes, so I changed half way though (the ones at the bottom with more definition are how they should look)

#feathers #wings #myna bird #embroidery

Myna Bird

I've had a fun week or so with my Myna bird-ing. Remember the wing I drew, first off I decided to make it out of paper...

(wing inside - the bit you can see from the front)

(wing outside - the bit you see from the back)

When I'd done that I decided I could move onto fabric stuff so I had a play and failed a bit...

I finally managed to get it right!

Now I just need to play with making it look like it has feathers and more like an actual bird and it's done lol

#mynabird #calico #drawing #prototype #wing #whats the use of wings

What's the use of wings if you can't fly...

I've had a fun day with this wing, it took aaaages but I think it was worth it. I decided to do a wing study so I know what both sides of the wing looks like so it'll look amazing when I make it out of fabric...

#wing #myna bird #drawing #pencil crayon #whats the use of wings

I could've ruled a Kingdom...

Had a fun couple of days drawing another Lion (apart from when Lauren said it looked like a snail, not happy about that one) but now it's coloured and done properly it looks like a lion:

It was a bit fiddly to make but I do like how it's turned out, better than the last lion I think, my desk was a bit of a state while I was making it though!

 

#lion #drawing #what's the use of wings

Hedwig and Simba :)

Spent the last few days chained to my desk drawing and sticking a lion and a snowy owl. This is the result...

They keep falling apart no matter how much double sided sticky tape or selotape I use, I've got some little wooden pegs on it to try and stick it together which will hopefully work...

 

So that was how I spent my Valentines day, think tonight I'm chilling with a hot chocolate and the new episode of Supernatural :)

 

 

#drawing #snowy owl #hedwig #lion #simba #valentines #supernatural #whats the use of wings

Now the land inside my head is all I know...

Been doing some more drawings of animals. I've done another Angelfish cos I'm getting quite good at them now and a pic of a lions face. Its mane is disturbingly similar to my hair when I brush it...

I'm off to the Hancock Museum this weekend to take some photos of the stuffed animals they've got which should be quite exciting. I'll let you know how it goes...

#lion #angelfish #whats the use of wings #hancock museum

'I could've found adventure,' said the Angelfish

Well, had a very busy day of drawing. I've got a Myna bird and an Angelfish so far. You cant see as much detail as I'd have liked in the Angelfish cos the colours are quite light and I did a lot of the fins in tracing paper (which was very exciting)

Then I had a play at making a cage out of wire.

It did not go well...