Drawing inspiration (bad pun, I know) from a nature documentary I just wanted to draw these gorgeous barn owls.
As my watchers know, owls are one of my two favourite animals to draw and after having fun with my last commission (Play Fighting), I wanted to do a grey scale animal artwork for myself.
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I'm trying a new thing out with Alli's owls. The logistics of having the owls as a species and their own society didn't really work out, so instead they're spirits that resemble owls. I'm thinking this can be the design of Ticon, the first of these owl spirits.
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Owl painting! This was from our bird painting unit in art class. Owls are my favorite birds so of course that’s what I chose!
I remember really enjoying all the little details on the face, and I still love how he looks!!
I loved the ombré so much on my apple painting I wanted to do it again for the sky here...not nearly as good results XD Not terrible though. I can’t remember if this is the one I had to keep redoing because I wasn’t moving on to the next color fast enough...
Only part of this I really don’t like is the branches. I remember I tried my hardest but just kept making them look worse, so I kinda had to give up on them. I rarely want to touch up old art but each time I look at it I want fix them XD Not that I necessarily could do a better job now...
Earlier version of the face ^^ I think I just liked the way it looked so I wanted to capture it before I added more colors to it.