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[bluebird]

A hippo?

A Hippo.  :>

 

[mlogan]

Oh my, what wonderful little drawings! I especially love the birds! Very nice!

 

[EternalShadow]

A lion? O_O

 

[bluebird]

lazy doodles!  No lion just yet!

 

[Lunarea]

Very cute doodles!

I'd love to see an otter, a deer or a platypus.

 

[Paladin-Cleric of Awesome]

Cheetah? Because of reasons... and maybe... a magpie... also because of reasons...

Love the artwork, it's all so awesome I want t get you to draw animals for me forever!

 

[bgillisp]

How about a squirrel? I see you had an older version of one, but wouldn't mind another one.

 

[Bloodmorphed]

I know this is a bit of a big request but I think it could help a lot of beginners in drawing:

Could you make a tutorial? From where you to start, to how you finish. I know this could take awhile so, no need to do it, especially if you don't have the time.

OH! Also include the anatomy, not many tutorials include that, but explain that a little bit. It is extremely helpful.

If you can't do that:

A tiger sitting down licking blood off its paw (dripping blood)

 

[bluebird]

Rawr.  So much interest!  This birdy is happeh.  I got back from vacation earlier this week so haven't gotten to work on much, but I plan to do some animal sketches this afternoon, lessee then!

As for tutorials, to be honest-  I don't think I'm really that good!  I wasn't really schooled in art beyond your basic art classes, and had to learn everything online.  DeviantArt has been a fantastic place for tutorials and really helped me grow as an artist.  I'll see if I can find the tutorials I specifically used a lot, see if it helps anyone else :>

I'll also say that having reference images is definitely key to improving yourself.  Asides from things I've spent years doodling, like dragons which I can make up within 3-4 minutes of sketching, I use a lot of references to help me identify how anatomy is supposed to be versus what I end up drawing myself.  

I started working on an arctic fox for a friend a few days ago.  I'm pretty decent with canines, but I still struggle with anatomy, so I open up a reference picture beside my empty page, and start scratching up a rough outline:

I wanted to learn the fur direction, and specifically how the back of the legs look in that sort of pose, so I scribbled around a bit to learn what personally feels comfortable to me.  The end result is going to be quite different from the reference picture, if only because I tend to stylize my art the moment I have a solid feel for the character I'm making.  It's just how I learn personally.  Never be afraid to use references as you art it up.  It'll only help you work through your weaknesses as you go on to produce more art and learn to develop your own style.

 

[Nuclear Mosquito]

Can you put a link to your Deviant art page in your signature?

 

[bluebird]

Tweet tweet TWEET.  I swear by gosh by golly and everything in the feathery kingdom that I didn't forget you guys or this thread!  Busy bird is busy....eating worms and things.  And then my little talons got all achy from trying to keep hold of the tablet pen.  That company doesn't appreciate bird art  My artsy elephant friend and I will make a fit about this!

But alas my peeps, I did do at least one request in my absence...and a lotto' doodles of random things.  enjoy :>

This one is older, can't believe I forgot to show!

Platy Request

Random doodles of random

 

[Tyra Wadman]

Bird nami is adorable aaaaaaah!

 

[bluebird]

Heehee thankies! Nami is one of my favorite champions. I had this idea of turnng every champio into a bird at one point :>

 

[bluebird]

Tweet. Mindlessly bumping this. Heartless bird is heartless.

I wanna draw some creature/monster concepts! Gimme some ideas! Nonhumanoid preferred but I can try to show you my crummy nonfourleggers :>

 

[mlogan]

Hmmm, what about some kind of rainbow dragonish thing?

 

[EternalShadow]

Hmmm, what about some kind of rainbow dragonish thing?

Spoiler

 

[mlogan]

But that's not cute nor very rainbowy.

 

[bluebird]

Spoiler

Where's the rainbow D:  And thanks for the concept idea!  No doubt it will be as adorable as can be.  :3  I shall work on it tonight.

 

[bluebird]

Still working on making an adorable rainbow draggy.  Sketched this up just now though.  I realized I had a lot of bluebird arts floating around but never took the time to draw my own version of, well, me!  Welllll.  Here's a messy self portrait

 

[Amysaurus]

Tooo.... much..... CUTE! *explodes*

I really love these - they're all very well done :3