Untitled

[sofenart]

Jean-Luc Picard

This is a picture of Jean-Luc Picard, who was the captain of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was aired over twenty years after the original Star Trek series finished. He's played by the English Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart, who is also known for his work on the stage for Hamlet and other plays, the X-Men films, I, Claudius, and other TV and film work. He's also currently in Star Trek: PIcard, which is set some decades after TNG.

[sofenart]

James Tiberius Kirk

This picture is of Captain James T Kirk of the Starship USS Enterprise. He was the captain in the original Star Trek series. Yes, Captain Pike preceded him as the captain of the Enterprise in the pilot episode, but it was William Shatner's Kirk that took the helm for the rest of the series, to go where no man has gone before.

Unfortunately, there was a lot of sexist tropes in the original series, but it was a product of its time, and despite that was generally progressive. Still, as it was the first Star Trek I watched as a kid, it has a place in my heart.

[sofenart]

Captain Christopher Pike

Description

This is a drawing I've done of Captain Christopher Pike of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, played by Anson Mount. Strange New Worlds is a prequel of The Original Series that starred Captain Kirk, both of whom captained the USS Enterprise.

Strange New Worlds is a really interesting take on Star Trek, bringing back the episodic episodes that lately have been sidelined for series long arcs as well as some humour. One thing of interest is Pike's large quiff, which seems to have a life of its own and is almost a co-star!

The original series had a pilot episode, The Cage, that had the USS Enterprise captained by Captain Pike, played by Jeffrey Hunter, but that pilot failed to impress the producers and it was ditched. They decided to go with it again, but this time with William Shatner as Captain Kirk, keeping only Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the original pilot's crew.

[sofenart]

Gyrfalcon

This is a drawing I've done of a gyrfalcon.

The gyrfalcon can be found in the arctic regions of North America, Europe and Siberia. They're the largest of the falcon species. The "gyr" part of their name either means circle or curved path, due to their flight path when hunting for prey, originally coming from Latin, or comes from the High Old German word for vulture, due to their relatively large size.

This will be the last drawing I've done based on photos taken by my hubby of birds at Huxley's.

[sofenart]

Caracara

Here is a caracara that I've drawn. I saw a couple of these birds at Huxley's Bird of Prey Centre in Horsham, UK.

They come from South America. They often walk when hunting their prey. They're also very territorial and will aggressively defend their territory. Their aggression sometimes leads to them taking food from the much larger birds, like vultures. They also tend to fly direct from place to place, not soaring for leisure, etc.

[sofenart]

Barn Owl

This is my drawing of a barn owl.

The barn owl is the most widely distributed throughout the world of owl species, and is also one of the most widely distributed of all bird species.

My hubby had the great pleasure of flying this bird at Huxley's Bird of Prey Centre in Horsham, UK; his first experience of bird flying. This drawing is based on a photograph he took of the bird.

[sofenart]

Harris's Hawk

The bird is called a Harris's Hawk, which is a raptor that can be found in South America, Central America and the far south of the US. The bird is unlike most birds of prey, in that they often hunt in packs. They can also run fast on the ground if necessary. They're also a favourite for falconers due to their intelligence.

This picture I drew is based on a photograph that my hubby took when we both visited Huxley's Bird of Prey Centre in Horsham. I also had the pleasure of flying this bird. It was the first bird that I ever flew. I think its name was Gizmo, and the photograph and this picture might well be of him.

[sofenart]

Truffle the Abyssinian Eagle Owl

Here is a picture of Truffle, the Abyssinian Eagle Owl that I was honoured to hold when visiting the Huxley's Bird of Prey Centre in Horsham. The drawing is taken from a picture that my hubby took of me holding Truffle, who was sweet and lovely to have the pleasure of holding.

[sofenart]

Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture

Here is a colour pencil sketch of a lesser yellow-headed vulture. The bird was one of those that my husband and I saw at the Huxley's Bird of Prey Centre that's in Horsham, West Sussex. We both flew some birds while there, myself a Harris hawk and a vulture. The vulture that I drew a picture of was one that gave us a display, whose pose you can see in the picture.

[sofenart]

Eskarina Smith

This is my pic of Eskariina Smith, the little blacksmith's daughter who appeared in Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rights" novel. She travelled with Granny Weatherwax all the way from her home village of Bad Ass in the Ramtops to the other side of Discworld to the Unseen University in Ankh Morpork to be accepted by Archchancellor Cutangle, and become the first female Wizard.

This pic was also done on Autodesk's Sketchbook on my Asus Zenpad 8.

[sofenart]

Paul Newman

Here's a drawing of US actor Paul Newman. He was born in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, US on 26th January 1925.

He starred in films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (my favourite of his), Hud, Road to Perdition, The Sting, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Towering Inferno, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and many others.

He was also a racing car enthusiast, winning several Sports Car Club of America races. He also co-founded Newman's Own, a food company which gave their post tax profits to charities.

Until his death in 2008, Newman was married to actress Joanne Woodward. In his two marriages, he fathered six children.

[sofenart]

Armadillo

I've drawn a three-banded armadillo.

All 20 species live in Latin America exept one of them which live in the USA.

Contrary to popular belief though, the three-banded armadillo is the only species which can curl most of its body into its shell to hide from predators!

They are closely related to sloths and anteaters, live 12 to 15 years, and eat bugs, small vertibrates, plants and fruit!

Armidillo is also a Spanish word which means "little armoured one"!

[sofenart]

Archcancellor Cutangle

This is a quick sketch I did of Archchancellor Cutangle on my tablet using Autodesk's Sketchbook on my now retired Asus Zenpad 8.

He was the first Archchancellor we see at the Unseen University, when he meets up with Eskerina Smith, who's travelled a long way to try and become a Wizard there. He first laughs at her, telling her how no girls are allowed in. Much later she throws her staff away in the Ank for hurting her friend David, who she travelled there together with, so Granny Weatherwax and Archchancellor Cutangle go to search for it, just so she can become a Wizard there, till they eventually find it in the river Ankh.

After the staff is found, Eskerina is made into the first female Wizard, and he even offers Granny Weatherwax a part time job in teaching his male Wizards subjects they know nothing about, like herbalism, making witches potions, and milking goats.

[sofenart]

Robert Redford

This is my pic of Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid"

Charles Robert Redford Jr was an American actor, director, and producer born on 18th August 1936 in Santa Monica, California, and his career spanned over six decades till he finally left us last year on the 16th September, as one of Hollywood's greatest legends and icons at 89 years old.

He won various different awards, including an Academy award, a British Academy Award, and five Golden Globe Awards as well as recieving many various high honours Awards for many others, and recieving lots of nominations for other high awards.

He made many great films through his life, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Great Gatsby, The Sting, All the Presidents Men, A Bridge Too Far, The Horse Whisperer, The Way We Were, Out of Africa, Charlottes Web, Barefoot in the Park, The Chase, Indecent Proposal, Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson, The Natural, All is Lost, The Candidate, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Electric Horseman, Legal Eagles, Brubaker, and many, many, more.

Favourite Film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[sofenart]

Sloth

This is my drawing of a three-toed pygmy sloth.

There are six species of sloth, but two types: the two-toed and the three-toed. They can be found in Central and South America. Their diet consists of leaves and fruit, but they occasionally resort to eating birds' eggs, insects and small lizards.

[sofenart]

Going Bananas

Here is another of my Discworld fan requests that I did in 2006. Maaike requested that I draw her and The Librarian making some banana dessert, flavoured with rum, in her kitchen. The Librarian is a the librarian at Discworld's Unseen University. Although he's shaped as an orangutan, he was actually a human wizard before a magical mishap changed him that way. Having four dexterous hands/feet suited his librarian work, so he kept himself as an orangutan. Whatever you do, don't call him a monkey!

[sofenart]

John Hurt

This is my pic of John Hurt.

John Vincent Hurt was an English actor who was known as one of the finest in his generation, and was even referred to by David Lynch as "simply the best actor in the world". He was born on the 22nd Jan 1940, and died on the 25th Jan 2017 at 77 years old of cancer.

He made many of my favourite films, and TV shows throughout his life, including The Elephant Man, 1984, Alien, V for Vendetta, 10 Rillington Place, Contact, I Claudius, Watership Down, The Gruffalo, Howards End, The French Lieutenants Woman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Harry Potter films, Outlander, Melancholia, and many, many more.