Owl Drawing
Jun 26, 2018
drawing, design
Drawing is a mistery field to me. To many people, it can be super familiar to us when we were at young age. I started to draw when I was a kid, but gradually lost my interest as I entered primary school.
This is the first time I started to drawing again, nearly without skill practice. After taken Introduction to Imagemaking (3rd course in Graphic Design Specialization). By drawing weekly for owls, here are what I got:
Week 1
Started off by using Paper app, I was trying to imitate a chocolate piece of owl.
Week 2
I was interested in the brush tools in Paper, and found a great photo as reference.
Actually I was amazed what the result looks like, by combing outline and water brush,
it seems to be close to Chinese traditional ink style 
.
Week 3
I want to try negative space that I’ve learned before, and there is a close up shot to the owl when he’s ready for hunting. In this artwork, I doodled the black space first which looks like scratching from a paper, then use white brush to draw outline of the owl, pencil to draw texture of woods.
Week 4
Love abstraction so much, I still remember the first computer game I’ve played in a pixelated resolution. I was using Sketch to try different techniques of same shape, including ASCII art, vector with bitmap, black white.
Week 5
This is the first time I was drawing over a photo. By leveraging the fill function in purple color,
it creates a dramatic star sky looking style, which I was inspired by drawing by gel pen tool and some creation of Chinese characters 
.
Week 6
Inspired by reviewing artwork of a person who submitted his/her assignment which leverages drawing using real photos. I collected what I have for my recent shoots after settling in Toronto, and fit them into a vector owl shape.
Can you believe I used these photos to compose the picture? 
