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A digital painting of a barn owl perched on a post in a field, drawn entirely using digital airbrush. This was drawn for my mum's birthday, finished with two days to spare!

Drawn using the same method as my juvenile kingfisher, I worked with AutoDesk SketchBook Pro on a Tablet PC (drawing directly on the screen) using the airbrush and the eraser tools only. As always, I worked from a photo reference but drew and coloured 'by eye'. This piece took at least 24 hours, possibly as much as 30 or 35 hours as I completely lost track of how long I'd spent.

You possibly saw the work in progress back in April [link] where I had lost all hope that I'd spent at least 15 hours on the piece and hadn't got further than adding detail to the face. I actually started this in late March, continued into April, lost the will to continue for two months, then finished it in two sittings in late June. Phew!

In hindsight, I greatly underestimated how much detail work there was in this. I spent approximately 15 hours on detail, mostly due to how much of the reference image/texture is actually tiny black and white squares...

The reference image was a stock photograph from deviantART, taken by the extremely talented `KevLewis [link]

Update 2009-06-25: Spent an additional hour and a half improving the left eye, the face and the shadows/definition around the edge of the wing. I can still see things 'wrong' with it, but I think I'm going to considered it 'abandoned' now!

Update 2009-07-05: OK it wasn't completely abandoned! I just spent another hour improving the shape of the wing feathers and darkening the background to make the owl stand out more and make it closer to the colours in the reference image. This is really really abandoned now, honest! I hope you think this is an improvement and hasn't made it worse...

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~LunaettaIcereaver May 18, 2012
beautiful! I thought it was a picture!
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~roni18 May 7, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
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I use stock and thank you ..
I use my art as a stock in :)
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!dona-nobis-rosa Oct 17, 2010
Ohh, this is so lovely! I've got a huge soft spot for owls. I just want to touch its feathers... :heart:
(Did you know that barn owls smell like butterscotch?)
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~jinkies36 Oct 17, 2010
Glad you like it! No, I've been to a couple of falconry events including barn owls but never noticed that, I'll check next time :)
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!dona-nobis-rosa Oct 17, 2010
I wish I knew about the smell from firsthand experience, but I read it in a book called Wesley the Owl (a true story). Have fun putting it to the test! :XD:
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~jinkies36 Oct 17, 2010
Hehe :D
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*lapis-lazuri Oct 7, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Somehow you managed to make the owl's feathers look as soft as they actually are, and in the same time add so much detail to them. That's remarkable.
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~jinkies36 Oct 7, 2010
Thank you, high praise :)
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*lapis-lazuri Oct 7, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome :)
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~x-Tuari-x Sep 28, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
That is incredible! Good job!!
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