Independent Learning Project – Week 11

This week for my independent learning project, I decided to sit down and find another tutorial to follow. I wanted to try something that I’ve never drawn seriously before. Turns out, finding decent tutorials online is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I tried finding tutorials for drawing realistic hands and found that none of them were helpful in the least in drawing a good product, or they skipped so many steps that they were informative at all. Many tutorials online are also geared toward those who do digital drawings. I own a digital drawing tablet, but don’t have a pen for it at the moment, which is why my project is focusing on physical mediums.

Finally, after a while of searching, I found this tutorial. It’s an extremely simple tutorial, but it doesn’t skip tons of steps; you can see the little things being done in order to find finishing touches. It’s easy enough to where you can tune it and get your own result, which is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of my own progress in the tutorial and only have my finished product, which is as follows:

I’ve never really tried to sit down and draw a bird before. If fact, I’ve barely had any interest in birds at all, which made this tutorial a nice learning process for me. It took quite a while for me to be satisfied with the placement of the feet. I’m still not really super happy about it, but it’s better than leaving it off completely. My favorite part has to be the little feather tufts I added myself to the head; I think it makes this birdie cute.

Doing tutorials like this makes me realize that I still have a lot to learn, but that I am capable of doing so easily.