Chris drove me to work this morning, and on the way we passed a hawk that was lying dead on the side of the road. Chris being Chris, he went back after dropping me off and took the bird home. He couldn't figure out how it had died, and judging from the clarity of the eyes, it had died very recently. No bones appeared to be broken, and the feathers were all in a healthy condition. Quite the mystery. It's a beautiful bird, all told, and drawing it was very meditative.
I'm really proud of how this turned out, especially since ink pen with no preliminary sketches can be very unforgiving.
Ink pen.
1 comment:
gorgeous!! That came out wonderfully- I wonder if you can scavenge the bones since you'd have a complete hawk skeleton- that'd be a fantastic piece to have to draw from (or take it to a taxidermist to have the skeleton mounted)
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