Heather

This is fun  I need to try some hash marks and convince myself they belong.  I always feel like they are inappropriate for my subjects but then I see others use them for nature subjects and they look great .

I have sketched for field notes out of necessity as a botanist. (You can’t pluck a plant if you’re concerned it’s rare.) I’ve always admired the old style British nature journals that I have seen published and I aspire to that - trying to capture the essence of a place with sketches and details and notes. This course is a gift for my birthday and it’s such a great one! I’m trying to meet the guild of natural science illustrators Inktober challenge on Instagram (@hpeatster) so together with this course I’ll be making lots of progress. I hope. 🤓 I liked some of the use of boxes on the page. I think I could make use of that to help my pages look less chaotic and to highlight a whole plant sketch or the like, while letting the image fall out of the box as well.  I also like the bird sketches from various angles. I’m working on birds but they move so it’s a transition from plants! All very inspiring. I’m also headed into snowy winter so not my normal field season notes and a new challenge of seeing winter details One thing I sometimes do in my book is to include a little physical snippet of the plant or tiny feather that I can sketch later or glue into my book.