Hide your mice! by escafeld

2D • Animals • posted on Feb 18, 2005

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A friend who cared for injured wild birds asked me if I would like to take some photographs of a Kestrel he had nursed back to health. With a loaded camera I fired again and again as he let the bird fly from his hand, but it was a disaster. No sooner had the bird taken off than it was gone, miles away! Almost out of film the bird came to his hand for the last time and settled. Then, with a gesture of his hand to demonstrate a point, the bird raised its wings to gain balance and the action was captured on film. Days later I loaded the processed transparency into a slide projector and decided that I could probably manage to draw the bird and so I sat in front of the screen and drew the picture you see here. Normally I work in pen and ink, but this image was drawn on A2 with pencil crayons and it took on and off about eight hours to complete. Four separate A4 scans were needed to digitize it and then I joined the four images together in Paintshop Pro. It is obviously reduced in size here. Dedicated to TwoPynts, who takes pictures of Raptors.

Comments (16)

black-dragon1986

6:19AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

Wow! It seems as if the bird is real! exellent!

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marybelgium

6:31AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

Exlt ! So beautifully done ...

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beatoangelico

6:32AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

VOTEYOUVOTE***Fantastic Job Haughty BRAVOOOO EXCELLENT ARTWORK SUPER COMPLIEMENTS *BY LIVIO ITALY

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escafeld

7:03AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

Thank you friends for your kind words :)

revspencer

8:31AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

REMARKABLE!

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ppetersen

8:48AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

Amazing. I've just done a sketch of a hawk, and can feel the work that this took. Perfectly shaped the feathers are amazing!!!!! THis is just beautiful, for you've captured the spirit of the kestral....

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tibet2004uk

9:03AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

It looks totally amazing even though it's impossible to see properly because of the huge size! Have to scroll up and down, right and left and it definitely reduces the impact of the drawing! A shame though cos it's very detailed and looks like an amazing drawing! U're very talented!! :)

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bevchiron

11:42AM | Fri, 18 February 2005

Very nicely done, great work ; )

chiaroescuro

5:01PM | Sat, 19 February 2005

I love it.

Haeberle

9:17AM | Sun, 20 February 2005

Wow, thats really great art !!!

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TwoPynts

11:37AM | Mon, 21 February 2005

Thank you so much for the dedi, I am touch and really appreciate the thought behind it. This is a lovely drawing an it is obvious how much work went into it. I enjoyed the story too. Thanks David!

gallimel

11:46AM | Tue, 22 February 2005

this is so very well made!

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