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Eastern Rosella

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An Australian bird (Eastern Rosella) hand drawn by me :)
Drawn freehand and no help was given by anyone :)

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Very nice drawing <3

Have to say that you did a splendid job on this one actually. I can really tell where you just kind of had fun and took your time drawing this one as well. Kind of makes you feel awesome looking at it. Think you could draw a fennec fox or a kitten sometime? Just because I actually like them both.

The colors are very vibrant and blend together like a small holdable rainbow. Like how you added a branch onto it so it doesn't look like it is simply suspended in mid air which is good here as well.

Overall, wonderful bird art.

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rubyninja responds:

thankyou :) I do intend on drawing more pictures, and i never really thought what. So thankyou for the ideas, i'm sure ill be able to draw your suggestions, and i'll upload them in :)

Nice colors.

I like the way you colored the bird, a good color scheme. But, I think you should've posted uncolored, then colored.

But, something tells me that the bird lose a bit of detail when coloring, but, I don't complain. Still looks good, and well done too!

D Great job!

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rubyninja responds:

Well, yes, most of the colour was lost since i drew it in pencil. I did try playing around with the exposure of the picture to bring it how i orriginally drew it, but i didn't have much success :/
Thanks for your comments, i truly appreciate it :)

This is actually really well-drawn!

Let me start by saying that I'm no artist. If there's one thing I can't do, it's draw. Still, it doesn't take a genius to recognise that this is really well-drawn. I compared it with the original picture that you redrew (I'm assuming it's this one: http://velofille.com/old/parrot_pics/Eastern%20rosella3.jpg) and they really match in terms of colours and proportion. Nice work!

The colours you used were pretty good. Maybe you could've used a richer shade of red, like in the original picture, and made the tail a bit more appealing to the eyes in terms of colours (you only used two shades of blue for the tail). Also, compared to the original, some of the colours aren't as bright as they could be, which leads to a bit of a dull presentation colour-wise. Still, you mixed in the colours very well, especially in the top part of the bird. Shading could use a bit more work, namely on the branch that the bird is perched on, but other than a few quirks the colour scheme and shading were done right.

What I probably liked the most about the picture is that the proportion was just right. The angle of the bird's head was perfect and the branch was particularly well-drawn, especially the part behind the bird. Regarding the background, it is a bit minimal I guess, so I would've liked a few subtleties in the background such as leaves, but maybe the minimalistic background was intentional to give more attention to the bird.

Now to nitpick - on the whole it looks like you paid attention to detail, but when viewing it full size, I can see a few loose ends you can tie up, like one of the bird's claws, which is supposed to be behind the twig but it is actually going through it. There's a bit of colour jotting out of the tip of the tail too. Still, these are just minor problems, nothing much to worry about.

So yeah, this is very well-drawn, especially in terms of proportion, and the colour scheme is good too. There are just a few minor problems here and there which need fixing. Keep it up.
8/10

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rubyninja responds:

Thanks for your review :) Well, no usually i do search for pictures on the internet, but i happened to come across this one on a book, which actually does look a lot like the image in the link you mentioned.
Also, since i have unfortunately not taken art, i hadn't bothered buying a good set of pencil colours, so i had to do with a limited set, and had to use two colours in certain spaces because i didn't have the right colours :(
The claw was a big defect in the picture, mostly because in the begining i had decided to draw only a bird, and added the branch later on after i had already shaded in the bird.
And, although it seems off, thankyou for pin-pointing my errors in the picture, for in my next pictures, i would be able to keep them in mind and try to avoid them :)
So, thanks :)

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Apr 11, 2011
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