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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Color Studies of Birds

For this assignment we were asked to take an image of a bird and color it using three different color pallets. It's fun to see how changing the color story completely alters a picture.

Because I am a mythology geek, I drew a bird based on Anthea's Owl, an image that used to be stamped on ancient Athenian coins. Behold:


Below is my original sketch, done in ink on white drawing paper:


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I traced the black and white image with the mighty Illustrator pen tool and then added color.

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