Dear Steemit Friends!
Today something more unusual from Shiny Forest. A black rooster, drawn at the request of my beloved one. It may land on T-shirt or a sweather I think, but I'm not sure what the original inspiration of the requestor was. Haha! Anyway, I thought I'd share this piece with you, in between some of my Shiny Forest postcards, even though it doesn't have the usual appeal specific to my creations presented here on Steemit.
Pen and ink on a paper, 29,7 x 42 cm
Now, I think this is one of the last pieces drawn by me on a stock paper. I've had enough of that folding, waving and other not so wonderful distortions of all sorts ;) It's all fine and dandy when I sketch my art with pencil or am in progress of stippling, but at the final stages the paper just starts to kick, bite and freak out in general. Stock paper was a great friend at the beginning of my 'back to art' journey, but now it's time to finally move on.
PROGRESS STEP BY STEP
A sketchy sketch at first. I've browsed the Internet for countless pics of roosters (as I have no chance of meeting one in life anytime soon), and out of this prolonged exposure came out a brand new and original roo' of my own,
Which was then redrawn by moi with a pen,
And afterwards treated to some initial lines and dots to give myself some basic directions. I also checked out how will my shading technique work on one of the tail feathers.
I was very careful and conservative with filling out the middle part of the bird. I didn't want to ruin it with some hastily chosen tactic, so I took my time and worked the outskirts of the drawing at first (which was also stressful on it own hah). You know, I was attacked by some angry rooster once when I was a very little kid, and I still have the scar on my leg from its vicious bite. I ran into the group of hens which occupied the road, because I was trying to get to a person standing and waiting for me at the other side of the road. The cock got mad I guess, and pecked me really hard while I was passing it. So this will be a lame joke, but basing on my bad experience I decided to proceed with caution. Heh.
As I said, the progress was gradual. I especially enjoyed filling out the tail fathers, it was a very pleasant task for some reason, probably because I knew exactly how I wanted these feathers to be done and could go totally relaxed about them.
The rooster turned out to be more greyish than an expressive contrasting black and white piece, I'd say. This whole shades of grey situation actually begs for some puns, not to mention a main theme of the graphic, obviously, but I shall abstain from any such naughty overtones hihi. I was actually watching Archer for past few days, and as he would say, you know... PHRASING! Well, I certainly hope there will be more seasons of this show to come :)
Oh yeah, the legs. It's not included in here, but I've created myself a delicate pencil sketch at first, to outline a wrinkly texture of legs' skin, and I tried to build a semi-realistic effect with pen afterwards.
And soon I was finished. I left the eye white for now, but I may revisit this art in the future, I think. I'll have you updated, should anything like that take place hah.
Do you like my art, guys? Here's another drawing of a bird I made some time ago, please check it out if you're interested: a cute little wren, which looks a little bit angry, but is actually a quite sweet tiny fellow.
A classic step-by-step GIF:
I'm very happy you checked out my post :) I really hoped you enjoyed it, and as always...
