owl drawing

Drawing is a mistery field to me. To many people, it can be super familiar to us when we were at young age.
I started to draw when I was a kid, but gradually lost my interest as I entered primary school.

This is the first time I started to drawing again, nearly without skill practice.
After taken Introduction to Imagemaking (3^rd course in Graphic Design Specialization).
By drawing weekly for owls, here are what I got:

Week 1

Started off by using Paper app, I was trying to imitate a chocolate piece of owl.

Week 2

I was interested in the brush tools in Paper, and found a great photo as reference.
Actually I was amazed what the result looks like, by combing outline and water brush,
it seems to be close to Chinese traditional ink style .

Week 3

I want to try negative space that I’ve learned before,
and there is a close up shot to the owl when he’s ready for hunting.
In this artwork, I doodled the black space first which looks like scratching from a paper,
then use white brush to draw outline of the owl, pencil to draw texture of woods.

Week 4

Love abstraction so much, I still remember the first computer game I’ve played in a pixelated resolution.
I was using Sketch to try different techniques of same shape, including ASCII art, vector with bitmap, black white.

Week 5

This is the first time I was drawing over a photo. By leveraging the fill function in purple color,
it creates a dramatic star sky looking style, which I was inspired by drawing by gel pen tool and some creation of Chinese characters .

Week 6

Inspired by reviewing artwork of a person who submitted his/her assignment which leverages drawing using real photos.
I collected what I have for my recent shoots after settling in Toronto, and fit them into a vector owl shape.

Can you believe I used these photos to compose the picture?