Bird drawings at the Oxford Natural History museum and Pitt Rivers visit

I went to the Oxford Natural History & Pitt Rivers museums in Oxford and drew from the taxidermy birds there. There were some awesome artefacts in there too from various cultures, egyptian, north american, aztec, indian, japanese, chinese, oceania...

Some of the birds that are indigenous to Oxford

A few South american birds and company. 

Blue Heron, from west virginia 

Cardinal Birds are native to North America

Eagle

Eagle

Quetzal - they have amazing tail feathers. 

House Sparrow

Character Concepts

This character was based upon the red tailed eagle and even though I liked the character design, I don't think my narrative will call from this character anymore. 

Playing with suggestion of shape in the background and inventing birds. 

Figuring out the characters physicality

A possible double page spread...

An interior concept

Loving working with charcoal// exploring a cave. 

Pattern exercise. Kept smudging it :(

Rediscovering Pencil colours

Figuring out what the tree village will look like, but I don't think I'll go with this anymore.

Initial ideas for scenery but i've drawn away from this

Story Boarding

Beginning to draw for my narrative.

Differing angles.

On the hunt for the quetzal

Bird hunting

Instead of having tree houses, the homes are built within the trees. 

Odds and Ends

On the way to figuring out what I wanted to do for my negotiated practice I was sketching. Here's a sample from the sketchbook. 

Tried a bit of screen printing

A few observational drawings from a film...

My usual fine liner approach.