The upside down drawing was not too hard until I got to the belly, then I did not have a way to make associations and relationships, to label and fit in what I was drawing.
I will try understanding the belly feathers again later.
Sketching - it gets in the bloodstream... From a random encounter with a killdeer in the parking lot to be sketched to digging up videos for behaviors / gesture observation, ind thing leads to another. Doesn’t it?
Clearly the first sketches with proportion & negative spaces in mind for gestures helped to get a better sense of the killdeer’s body and nest relative to its’ chicks.
It Was Difficult! Too hot to find any animals out so got gestures and proportions from soccer field — using human dimensions. Fortunately for me, a killdeer and some urban birds showed up on sign fixtures so I captured some wildlife too. I used videos for gesture inspiration of funny owls & also negative space around the theee.