Drawing: Three Corvids

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Three Corvids, drawn from reference photos from the social networking site, Paint My Photo.

I drew them with watercolor pencils on Canson XL Mixed Media, using about half of a 7X10 page.

This newer Canson pad has very little texture and therefore the color is not as intense as I would like.

I do like the way I got the look of black without using much actual black.



 

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