The Cornell Lab Bird Academy › Discussion Groups › How to Paint Birds with Jane Kim › Draw: Northern Cardinal Feathers
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This was my 3rd northern cardinal attempt and each time I seem to do one thing a bit better. Need to keep practicing!
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Love it. Well done
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First time posting. I love this course. I have carved and painted birds and bird watched for long time, but could never transfer painting birds to flat art. This course is giving me just what I hoped for.
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Your drawing looks great.
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So I tried once more and tried to be patient and draw the feathers.
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Nice!
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I can relate...the feathers are driving me crazy, testing my patience and I wondered ...how did I choose to draw birds!?!??
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I think my problem is that I am impatient when it comes to drawing feathers. I think I tend to rush to "finish the drawing". I'll keep working on this however. Seeing what others have done has given my a better idea of what I need to work on.
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Your feathers are wonderful in that drawing....nice work!
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Wow! I found myself getting dizzy as I was drawing and redrawing the primaries :)
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You got the details on those feathers! WoW!
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I love cardinals - can't wait to paint him :)
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My Northern Cardinal with individual feathers.
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I’m really intrigued by this process! I’ve drawn/sketched for many years and have never thought about using basic shapes and the pencil measuring technique before! I feel like this process, breaking things down from macro to micro, all the steps we took, will be a game changer for my art. I can see this being immensely helpful for proportions and composition.
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