Winged Creatures or Fylers

Photos from the Pterosaur Exhibit at the Public Museum

Project Description:

Explore

Gather a mood board of images of flying beings: Any type, from pigeon to Pterodactyl. These can be your own photos (at the museum or your backyard) or examples from online. Gather reference and benchmarks, pay particular attention to beaks, webbed feet, wings, nostrils, eyes on the sides of head etc.
Hand in a mood board image to the drive - this can be a jpg or png of your Pinterest board

Define

Draw 3 "cute" birds or creatures with wings for a children's audience
Draw 3 "Scary" birds or Creature with wings birds for a Teen to Adult audience
Hand in as many files as you need in the Google Drive

Accomplish

Design 2 Characters in your style and take it to the point that you are able to before the final review.

The project is open: Full Color, GreyScale, Digital 3D, 2D, Plushy, Physical 3D, etc

Hand in as many files as you need in the Google Drive

Sarah Puett - Birds combined onto one page. You can either put your birds all on one page or separate by type.

Optional Exercise: Flour Weight Distribution

Think about the flour sack when you draw bird. Allow the weight to push the body and cause visual flow. bodies.

Susan Bonner - Flour Sack Exercises

CHALLENGE:

Draw a sack of flour using these words for inspiration

Write the word under each flour sack

- Squashed
- Stretched
- Twisted
- Dejected
- Joy
- Tantrum
- Curious
- Cocky
- Laughter
- Belligerent
- Crying
- Happy
- stuck
- carry
- run away
- tumble
- sneak
- jump
- falling
- walk

CUTE AND FUNNY BIRDS: STUDENT EXAMPLES

Bird Drawings by Alyssa Ferris

Bird Drawings by Alyssa Ferris - Draw Overs by James Suhr

Birds by Alex Sophabmisay

Birds by Joseph Mead

Birds by Piper Fields - color not required.

Bird Drawings by Chloe Stewart - color not required.

Bird Drawings by Chloe Stewart - Draw Overs by James Suhr

Drawing by Caleb Sumney

Drawing by Caleb Sumney - Draw Overs by James Suhr

Bird Professor Character Turn Around with props by Lauren Boley

Bird Professor Character Turn Around with props by Lauren Boley - Draw Overs by James Suhr

SCARY BIRDS:

For this part of the project use more points and texture.

Here is the pinterest collection of scary birds by Susan Bonner - You must have a pinterest log on to see the image set.

Bird Inspired Creatures by Adam Finney

Bird Inspired Creatures by Adam Finney

Fisher Mancilla: Inspired by the Pteresour exhibition at the Grand Rapids Public Museum

Bird Inspired Creatures by Corbyn Swets

Bird Inspired Creatures by Alex Sophabmisay

Bird Inspired Creatures by Joseph Mead

PROFESSIONAL EXAMPLES:

Claudia Pimentel - Sketch from a photo reference to simplify and find shapes.

Rio Character Sheet - Blue Sky Studios

Take a look at the model sheets for birds here:

http://livlily.blogspot.com/2011/11/balto-1995-characters-model-sheets.html

Rory Conway - Pigeon

Accomplish:

Student choice for finished works:

Miki Davis

Keegan Moore

Keegan Moore

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