🤔I have drawn some turtles in August, 2020. I think I finally want to post my drawings. I realized that the scientific names should be in italics, but I won't change the drawings. 😂😂😂
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鼋 Cantor's giant softshell turtle/ Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The brown ones are babies.
斑鳖 Swinhoe's softshell turtle/ Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei). The species is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. At the moment, there are four living individuals known.
It wasn't easy for me to find reference photos of the species or draw the unique patterns. 🤔
玳瑁 hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). The species is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 😩 I made some mistakes when I drew the hawksbill sea turtle, and later I redrew the scutes after realizing the mistakes. I also changed the patterns on the hawksbill's beak.
Hmm, I think I might not be allowed to share the illustrations that I drew for the book about animal rescue with people on social media platforms (🤔at least not yet? I am not very sure about it… ). Those drawings were drawn in October, 2020, and in November, 2020, and they actually look pretty similar to these ones. I have some other drawings as well as some stories to post anyway. 😂😂😂 I am working on some projects and it's tiring. I write and draw my stories, so it can be exhausting in some ways. I plan to draw some more species and I have already illustrated a few pictures. It's likely that I will share some of my new art with you guys. 🤔🤔🤔
海南孔雀雉 Hainan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron katsumatae). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
This is a boy who has lost his family.
At first I wanted to draw both female bird and male bird (they probably look different…🤔), but unfortunately I couldn't find photographs of the female bird. There are few photos of the species on the Internet, which is probably a bad news. I do know 徐 has drawn amazing illustrations of Hainan peacock-pheasants. I've only seen the female Hainan peacock-pheasant from one of their science illustrations, but looking at one image won't be enough for me to draw a proper illustration. So in the end I only draw the male bird.
It was not very easy for me to draw the character, and I didn't feel well that day. I was too tired to draw the lustre (probably green) of the eye-shaped patterns. 😩😩😩
Patterns of the actual bird don't look exactly like this. Parts of the eye-shaped patterns will usually be hidden by feathers. When the male bird displays his feathers, I guess most of the "eyes" can be seen. I didn't really care about space or depth or the relation of feathers when I drew, because of the style (I didn't even draw the feathers of his body or his mouth). 😂😂😂I didn't mention this on Instagram, but said this on Weibo, since my text looks too freaking long on Instagram, and I was tired, and people can search for the species on the Internet (probably not easy) and then see the species's appearance anyway.
Grey peacock-pheasant looks similar to this species, but their facial colours are really different. I notice that lots of people mistake grey peacock-pheasants (yellow face) as Hainan peacock-pheasants (red face). 🤔My art is at least pretty accurate in some ways.
It took me about 5 hours and 47 minutes to draw the picture (including adding watermarks and the species's name).
四川山鹧鸪 Sichuan partridge (Arborophila rufipectus). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
This is a pretty happy family. The parents and their baby daughter.
I don't usually draw happy families. ☹️
I might made some mistakes. I'm not sure whether I drew every partridge accurately or not. The patterns on the child's body are likely to be wrong. The adults are probably fine. 😂
An actual female bird's plumage might look a bit darker. The colours and patterns of a real partridge are actually more complicated. Another thing is that I didn't really draw too many feathers, but I still needed to know the position of the patterns. It took me at least a day to look at some photos and short documentaries and to try to understand the species's anatomy (drawing this family could also help me understand the species in some ways😂). I realized that I made a mistake when I coloured the toes and claws of the mother, since I noticed that the claws of Sichuan partridges are really different from that of eared pheasants/ Hainan peacock-pheasants/ chickens, so I redrew the claws. 😂
There should be more children (as far as I know), but drawing more than one child means that it will be a bit more difficult for me to deal with the composition of the picture.
I am pretty familiar with creating lineart, so I drew the lines of the characters first. Then I coloured the kid, and then I dealt with the mother (who was the most challenging one), after designing the mother's patterns, the father was pretty easy to colour. 😂
It took me about 8 hours and 40 minutes to design and draw this. It was tiring. ☹️
I feel kind of horrible now, and I don't know if I want to keep posting things… 😩😩😩😂😂😂
褐马鸡 brown eared pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum). The species is evaluated as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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This is a girl. The red area on her face is bare skin instead of feathers. The adults of eared pheasants are very similar in plumage, while there are obvious differences between the female individuals and the male individuals of lots of species belonging to the family Phasianidae. I might try to draw babies/ children later. 🤔
My friend said that the character's tail can be bigger, and I think he has a point, so I will try to design some pretty different ones in the future.
It took me about six hours to design and draw this. I spent about 30 minutes working on the watermark stuff (so it took me about 6.5 hours in this case).
Unfortunately, for some reason, I was NOT able to post the original image (about 9 megabytes) to this platform. I tried to post the original one, but it just didn't work, and I had to post a smaller image (about 1 megabyte). 😩
If you want to download my drawing, or if you are interested in reading more of my opinions about my art, you can check out my Weibo.
I am not interested in removing the watermarks, by the way. 😂
I think it’s alright to post what I wrote, so here’s one of the chapters. The chapter is long-winded, and every canon character in the fiction is “out of character”. 🤔
It was written on 26th December, 2020. I then changed three words, so it’s a bit different from the version that I posted to Lofter (the amounts of “words” are the same).
🤔🤔🤔 I really should draw stroyboards and write more.
By the way, when I pasted my text, something went wrong. I couldn’t paste a whole paragraph sometimes, and it wasn’t because of the amount of the words. So I think there’s a bug.
I sketched my character. (It's only concept art! ) DO NOT REPOST!
敏 Min.
I should draw more. I have lots of original characters and possible stories, but some of them (like Min here) don't really have a proper design or proper stories, so I need to work on my projects. (If the design looks like some designs by other people, it's probably a coincidence) 😂😂😂
I bought a book called The CNG Field Guide to the Birds of China (《中国鸟类观察手册》). I bought something like this for the first time and I am really excited! I finally received the book and some interesting little stuff on January 26th, 2021! The creators of the book are amazing! 😭❤️ And I was so lucky to be one of the people who supported the project (basically by buying the book, you know, crowdfunding via the Internet). It cost me 79 CNY (about 12 USD) 🤔.
I always love to see drawings of dinosaurs, so it's just really exciting to have a book about birds that can be seen in my country. The illustrations and text are pretty nice.
And the lovely little gifts!
By the way, there is indeed something wrong with some of the illustrations. Some people have pointed out the mistakes and problems already. 🤔
I do write fictions. Considering that I might not be able to actually create a long comic about my DP alternate universe, I decided to rewrite and edit a part of my fanfiction for myself, and post it, of course. And then I did.
I have posted two chapters of my fanfiction to Lofter (they are basically about little stories of the comic that I want to create). 🤔 However, I didn't really post the first and the second chapter, which means there should be a few more chapters before these two chapters (so the stories will be confusing if you don't know the AU's settings and concepts) (honestly I haven't finished writing chapter one yet). I thought about posting a third chapter but… ☹️☹️🤔 Anyway, I am glad that I finally wrote something that includes more details, again (perhaps too detailed this time, but that's another thing). The plots are not very exciting, but whatever. My stories usually only have outlines, though I did write a few detailed ones (again and again). The first chapter I posted to Lofter is probably the fourth or the fifth version of that scene. 🤔
The stories are in Chinese, and if I draw the scenes, then I will probably translate some dialogues and onomatopoeic words into English. I don't bother translating my fiction into English, since it will take too much time to rewrite even one chapter. It's a fanfiction and I don't want to spend too much time on fanworks. But I can translate my stuff if somebody just ask me to talk about it. 🤔
I also thought I needed a new title instead of "Wings of the Ravens" (this one can be the AU's name or something), and I eventually figured out one. So I will also use the new title when I post my chapters here.
Wait, I am not sure if I really want to post the weird things I wrote. 🤔🤔🤔
By the way, yesterday I tried to Google translate some parts of my text. Honestly I don't trust Google translate and I seldom use it, but I want to know if it works well. I was very curious, so I typed something. The translation is not too bad, but it's still weird. I knew exactly what the translation was supposed to be when I got nonsense from the machine for a few times. 🤔 I found that it sometimes cannot translate Chinese into English, which surprised me. I guess it's upsetting and disappointing in some ways. 😩🤔🤔
