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pycthedragon

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At work I draw art sometimes, usually when I get really stressed out or something, I just take a walk and draw birds on the whiteboards. The coworkers really enjoy them and sometimes ask for me to draw them a bird for them.

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phoenix

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blue jay

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raven with a goofy cartoon bird thing

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This guy asked me to draw a bird in his office. I got really focused on the eye and the lore so I decided to make it a heron.

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Sometimes I do stuff like this. I just am like, lets draw birds but have them be like dramatic.

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Robot crow based off of 3-legged crow of Eastern Mythology.

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Yeah, he plays guitar like that.

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Art I drew on my 3DS on the "Miiverse"

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something else
 
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RavensGryf

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Wow!!! You're so talented Rachel! Those are all REALLY good. I especially love the one with the Raven and the goofy bird :). Amazing whiteboard art there!
 

Minimaker

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That's awesome :) You have talent, no doubt about that.

I really love the bluejay you drew, I raised one once that fell out of a tree 3 years ago. He had a slightly broken beak that gave him a permanent Elvis lip beak but he lived and ate just fine. You know some bird mothers are incredible. His mother knew I took him in the house (in my neck of the woods wild animals would have had him by nightfall-skunks, raccoons, cats, dogs, coyotes-you name it). There was no way to get him back into his nest because it was realllly high up in a spindly tree). Almost three weeks later when I brought him back out fully feathered she was still waiting around the house and immediately went to him and fed him from then on. He flew away with her a few days later. She waited all that time and knew her own baby when she saw him. Completely true story.
 

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Wow, you are so talented! I can't believe you were able to do that on a whiteboard, amazing:)
Thank you for sharing and I want to see more!
 

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Excellent work, Rachel! Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Your work is very impressive, I really love the bluejay.
 
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I forgot two birds yesterday:

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Tail is too short, maybe he's just got a short tail.

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An old one, but a cartoon phoenix dragon. A character design I never used.
 
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pycthedragon

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I drew this today. I love drawing cartoony birds.

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EAI

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I love the heron and raven! How on earth are you able to add all that details with only expo pens?!
 
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You first draw the dark parts out, and use your finger to very carefully add highlights. I use a similar technique with pens, instead of using a finger though, I use white acrylic paints.

If you get a colour too close to the black, especially if the black isn't dry, it will mix with other colours and add a dark-grey tint to the marker until it wears out, which doesn't take too long. You can use that to add shades and gradients. That's how I did the little phoenix's tail feathers - my marker was dark from mixing with another colour so I just used it to have mahogany.
 
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