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Alcotholic · Jul 8, 2016

GAF Art Challenge #26 - "Birds"

THEME: Birds

Birds!

ADDENDUM

You can draw a real bird, or a magical bird.

GOAL

We need birds here!

Optional Secondary Objective: Try to mimic the art style of one of your favorite artists!

THE RULES

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

August 1st, 2016 11:59 PM Pacific (Can be extended if needed.)

Submission Guidelines:

1) Submissions can be 2D or 3D, any traditional or digital medium. No photos/photo manipulations, paint-overs/tracing or reusing old works. Original and New work only.

2) To avoid cluttering up the thread, please avoid quoting images when sensible/post in proximity. Keep pieces to a reasonable size. Link to larger ones if you must.

3) The theme can be interpreted as you see fit, but make sure you're challenging yourself!

4) Have fun! It's not about winning or making your masterpiece every week. It's time to let your inner artist shine! All skill levels welcome!

Art Links!

Alcotholic · Jul 8, 2016

I have another birt!

Inquisitive_Ghost · Jul 8, 2016

I strongly approve of this theme.

Alcotholic · Jul 8, 2016

Inquisitive_Ghost said:
I strongly approve of this theme.

Glad to hear! I hope this thread turns into an aviary! If not by others, then by my own hand!

LegendX48 · Jul 8, 2016

BIRDS!

I need to participate in these more >.>

Alcotholic · Jul 8, 2016

You know what this thread needs?
More Birds!

Cmagus · Jul 8, 2016

I did a Blue Jay bird. I was trying out some new brushes. It came out alright here is the finished and a bit of the rough foundation work in progress.

Final

Negaduck · Jul 8, 2016

Missed last challenge due to family, I fucking love some birds. Hopefully I can knock something out.

Alcotholic · Jul 8, 2016

Cmagus said:
I did a Blue Jay bird. I was trying out some new brushes. It came out alright here is the finished and a bit of the rough foundation work in progress.

Super sweet, man!
I didnt fully read your post and initally thought the top picture was a photo ref you used.

This is really good

Cmagus · Jul 8, 2016

Alcotholic said:
Super sweet, man!
I didnt fully read your post and initally thought the top picture was a photo ref you used.
This is really good

Haha maybe I should just take the rough picture out. I generally like to post some of my rough work as well I dunno it's just something I've always done but I can see how it can be confusing. As far as reference goes I just googled a ton of blue jay pictures and went from there.

Alcotholic · Jul 9, 2016

Keeping it business!

Alcotholic · Jul 10, 2016

This birty is about to have a heart attack.

Right now there are 6 birds in this thread.
How many does it take to make it an aviary?

PfantzyPantz · Jul 10, 2016

Yay I love birds!
Hot stuff Alco, good to see you again

Quakers are my favorite, had a couple when I was a youngling.

Alcotholic · Jul 10, 2016

PfantzyPantz said:
Yay I love birds!
Hot stuff Alco, good to see you again

Quakers are my favorite, had a couple when I was a youngling.

Oh man, those are some reeaaaal dope birdies.

PfantzyPantz · Jul 15, 2016

Thanks dood, did some chubby cardinals because I always loved seeing them in the backyard back in the day.
They haven't been around in a very long time though :'(

Jack The Nipper · Jul 15, 2016

Keep going with these threads. Hope they eventually take off.

FRV · Jul 15, 2016

There are birds, so i hope it counts

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It's rough but I donno if I will finish it by deadline so I'm posting this version.
I might try drawing a bird only picture but we will see.

heavy liquid · Jul 17, 2016

I finally drew a gosh darn bird! Might throw a bit of color on him later.

heavy liquid · Jul 17, 2016

I did a quick paint over on the sketch from last night:

LegendX48 · Jul 18, 2016

Meant to bump this last week but had zero time >.>

I won't forget this time. Now to brainstorm

Jhoan · Jul 19, 2016

You guys and your digital paintings. Traditional art ain't dead so here's a damn flamingo that I took some artistic liberties on. Ink and alcohol based artist markers:

Reference image:

heavy liquid · Jul 19, 2016

Nice flamingo, Jhoan! I don't think traditional art is so dead. I think it's best for people to develop their skills with traditional materials like pencil and ink before jumping in with tablets, because there's a tendency to rely on tracing and digital techniques like photobashing, so some fundamentals are not learned. But that's a discussion for another thread.

So I drew a bird on a post-it:

Kaywee · Jul 20, 2016

I tried my hand at chalk pastels

heavy liquid · Jul 21, 2016

Nice parakeets, Kaywee! (I think that's what they are). I haven't used pastels in years, but I always loved using chalk pastels and charcoal.

Is your photo a bit out of focus, though? It seems blurry to me.

Kaywee · Jul 21, 2016

heavy liquid said:
Nice parakeets, Kaywee! (I think that's what they are). I haven't used pastels in years, but I always loved using chalk pastels and charcoal.

Is your photo a bit out of focus, though? It seems blurry to me.

Thanks for the compliments, I liked drawing with the chalk pastels because they are very soft but I am not very good with them. The picture itself is out of focus and it didn't help it was taken with a cell phone. I did tweek it using curves in photoshop to make it a bit brighter.

heavy liquid · Jul 21, 2016

You're welcome! On the contrary, I'd say you're pretty good with the chalk pastels. No worries, I was just wishing your photo was a bit sharper so I could see a bit more of the details.

heavy liquid · Jul 22, 2016

Ostriches are strange birds.

Kaywee · Jul 22, 2016

heavy liquid said:
Ostriches are strange birds.

That is a fine Osterich

Also here is another bird

Alcotholic · Jul 27, 2016

Super sweet birdies, doods.
I'm almost done with my vacation- I may have time to get one last beaker in this thread. Maybe. I hope I do.

PfantzyPantz · Jul 30, 2016

Lots of hot birds here!

LegendX48 · Aug 1, 2016

It's the final day already? Time to whip something up real quick!

LegendX48 · Aug 7, 2016

Bah, didn't get anything done for this @_@

Anywho, who's making the next one?

triplestation · Aug 7, 2016

is this still on???????????

Media · Aug 7, 2016

Saw this thread and figured it'd be a good place to ask since search is failing me, but do we have a painting thread here? I've recently gotten into oil painting and I'd love advice and guidance from people better than me

triplestation · Aug 8, 2016

i made up a bird

its still rough but it has wings and claws and feathers so definitely a bird

LegendX48 · Aug 8, 2016

Media said:
Saw this thread and figured it'd be a good place to ask since search is failing me, but do we have a painting thread here? I've recently gotten into oil painting and I'd love advice and guidance from people better than me

to my knowledge... No but kind of? There's just the general art threads that you can find in the OP like the arts and farts, drawing a day and self study thread

Alcotholic · Aug 8, 2016

triplestation said:
is this still on???????????

I personally wouldn't mind if people continued making birds, just because they wanted to.
You're bird is super cool

triplestation · Aug 9, 2016

Alcotholic said:
I personally wouldn't mind if people continued making birds, just because they wanted to.
You're bird is super cool

thanks!

im gonna work on it some more and post the final thing

wheres the next drawing thread? >.>

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