I've decided to try and limit my time and do these sketches to break up my work from home day (and actually take a midday break).

Day 1 - Sketchy birds

This was an easy assignment. Birds are a big focus of my artwork, so sketching like this is a normal activity. I will try and push my instinct to be "accurate" in my depictions moving forward. I'm looking forward to working a little more loosely with my bird art. Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 1 - student project

Day 2 - Scribble Birds

This was a great excursive to loosen up my brain on being so precise when it comes to birds. The top left bird is begging to become a Surf Scoter at some point!

Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 2 - student project

Day 3 - Blobby Birds

These inky brushes were such fun to play with. I especially love the owl!

Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 3 - student project

Day 4 - working with symmetry. I love this function in Procreate and am excited to see how this will look as a tiled pattern - I think it would make a cool table runner or tea towel Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 4 - student project

Day 5 - Digital collage - I used photos from my art table and my fingerless gloves to create some of the patterns I used for this digital collage.
Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 5 - student project

Day 6 - Bird stamp - making stamps is fun! I embellished this one with gold accents.
Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 6 - student project Day 7 - Line art bird. I took the rough sketch from my digital collage quail and expanded it into this line art bird. I'm thinking i may have to do the smaller birds as well and create a repeating pattern with them.

Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 7 - student project

Day 8 - This was one of my favourite pages so far. I took one of the sketches from Day 1 and used it on this page. Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 8 - student project

Day 9 - Pencil blob birds. Work from blobs is always fun. This was a quick loose exercise.

Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 9 - student project

Day 10 - And here we are at the end of the line, with some geometric owls. This one was a little more challenging for me as I paint owls a lot and had to let go of my typical stylized, but realistic approach to the subject.

Daily Sketchbook - Birds - image 10 - student project

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