For this project I was making a drawing of the Black Bellied witsling duck for the Maine Junior Duckstamp competition. I really like the look of this duck in particular because of the shape of the duck I really like how the head and the body kind of look athletic in a way unlike a lot of the other ducks that just looked pretty.

At first I sketched out the duck refereing to an image I found on the internet. Then I made my own background to go with a sunset I wanted to do. Then I colored in the duck which needed layers and layers of colored pencil including a lot of white. I finished off with the sunset and the water with a lot of layers involved there too. I don't really like the way the water turned out because it was kind of rushed.

For materials I used regular 8 by 11 drawing paper, prismacolor colored pencils, and a 2B pencil to sketch.