100 Drawings - No. 41 to 52

This next set of drawings I made for the assignment came about when I was trying to figure out how to draw a crow for a dummy book that I am working on.  Well, why not look to the illustrators who inspire me and see how they might draw a crow?  With the exception of Sophie Blackall, who had Crows of Pearblossom as ready-made models, my drawings were mostly conjecture, based on styles for which these illustrators are known.  Let the caw-cawphony begin!

In alphabetical order, CROWS i.t.s.o. (in the style of):

Drawing 41 - wax, pen, ink

See Sophie's colourful original here

Drawing 42 - pen, ink

Drawing 43 - collage, pen, watercolour

Drawing 44 - wax, pen, watercolour

See the swallow who inspired this crow here

Drawing 45 - pencil, ink

Drawing 46 - wax, pencil, watercolour

Okay, I admit it! This is just Jeffers' seagull coloured black!

Drawing 47 - wax, pen, watercolour

Drawing 48 - wax, pen, ink, crayon

So the crow caught this big fish with a hat...

Drawing 49 - pen, watercolour

Drawing 50 - pen, ink, watercolour

Drawing 51 - wax, ink, watercolour

Drawing 52 - ink, crayon

Okay, I admit it!  This is just Willems' bus-coveting Pigeon coloured black.

Time for me to try some crows on my own.  Stay tuned.

And yay, Lisa gave us an extension on the assignment.