[Amaakir]

Anatomicae #25 - Birds of a Feather

Due Date: April 23th, 2012, 12:00 PM PST
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Challengers! Hereth lie the rules for this rounds challenge! Read on...

"A Madman's Ramblings (Introduction)"

Da Vinci was one of the first who realized how complex the anatomy of birds are. Such wonderful and complex creatures, and yet we may overlook them without taking the time to truly understand the mechanics of these wondrous animals.
I think it's time we all sit down for a while and try to understand them, just like Da Vinci did so long before us, so get ready to soar high in the sky as we get to know these birds of a feather.

Objectives

Challengers will be tasked to study the Skeletal Anatomy of a bird of their choice as well as its flight. The chosen bird must not be fantastical and must be able to fly (sorry, penguin lovers!).

Rules and Requirements

- Challengers are required to show their WIP and Reference Materials. These challenges are an opportunity for all of us to make contact with other artists and be a part of a growing community and it would be unfair for the artists who are making an effort to share their work and ideas if you are allowed to enter the finals without participating in the WIP thread.
- Challengers are to study the skeletal system of a bird of their choice. The skeleton can be posed any way the challenger wants, and doesn't need to be a fully rendered image (You can leave the skeleton as a pencil sketch in B&W, for example). However, this study must be part of the final entry.
-Challengers are to study the same bird in its flight. A single, fully rendered image of the bird while it's flying will be required as main final entry for this round. Challengers are open to include a background to this image, but it is not required.

Some Tips to get you on your way...

- Studying how the mechanics of the bird's flight will be key here, knowledge is your greatest companion always, take the time to study and understand how the wings, its feathers and the tail work together to make the bird fly.
- Starting from the skeletal system might give you a better understanding of how to flesh out the bird of your choice. There's a lot of reference material on the internet and, if everything fails, take a dive to your nearest library! Books have always been a great source of information!
- Take your time studying the anatomy of birds in general instead of going head on with drawing. Sometimes having knowledge of what you're about to paint pays a lot more than rushing in without knowing!
- Here are a couple of links of interest and reference images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_anatomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_flight










Have fun, guys, and welcome to round #25!

[VEREHIN]

Cool, here some examples of my studies, but I should do more for this topic

[absorbentghost]

ok guys hello there,lets see how many artist take part in this one

[Amaakir]

@MaximVerehin: Wow, you're off to a head start! I'd really love to see your new study for the challenge and hopefully you can give some insight to the rest of us of what you've learned from your recent ones

[guilhermegarcia]

Just some quick studies in poor quality.
Very interesting challenge!

[guilhermegarcia]

Oh, and I think this site could be very useful.
Lots of reference.

http://www.skullsite.com/

[Fronkium]

And so I'll give this a try. Not sure how well I'll do , been only drawing since last September since I started my studies But practice makes perfect

[dierat]

Cool topic! Here's a pretty in-depth tutorial on the structure of wings that might be helpful:

http://theantimonyelement.deviantart...2F1362641&qo=4

[Amaakir]

@dierat: That's an awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing!

[owl]

Hi, I started study of a swan, its still much to do with it, fix colors proportions and ... the feathers. I think I I'll spend on it a lot of time...



and the steps



reference photo: http://furlined.deviantart.com/galle...et=72#/d3ev13r by Matt Hoskins

[absorbentghost]

How dose one go about creating an animated GIF ?DO share that info so i can post in similar function.thks

[owl]

Originally Posted by absorbentghost

How dose one go about creating an animated GIF ?DO share that info so i can post in similar function.thks

if u want make animated gif in PS here is short describe: http://www.briandalessandro.com/blog...photoshop-cs5/
hope that will help

[Azalin]

here are some of my studies.


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[Leonzilla]

Yey, birds!

Gif:


Probably going to paint more...

[TwoDD]

I love birds, here are a few older studies that I have done.







And here are a few more studies that I did last night for this challenge.