Crow [UPDATED]

Stephen · #1 11-11-2006, 08:32 AM

Just as a follow up to my crow sketch in The Sketch Thread, here's a further illustration I did in Adobe Illustrator.

I'm not happy with the results, but I was experimenting with a new technique.

Em · #2 11-11-2006, 10:15 AM

it's alright, the head/beak looks a bit deformed

Magadal · #3 11-11-2006, 10:40 AM

I think its cool :P

Draenin · #4 11-11-2006, 10:52 AM

Birds tend to have more elongated, slender, curvy bodies. The problem with the bird lies mainly in the pose. The bird's back is very rigid, forcing it to look at the ground which is a very weird place for it bo be looking with wings outstretched, considering that birds usually look down at places to land, or if they are in search of something on the ground, but usually that's not often with wings outstretched.

Myomoto · #5 11-11-2006, 02:21 PM

Its beak look kinda "fat", otherwise it's very cool.

Sam · #6 11-11-2006, 02:44 PM

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Its beak look kinda "fat", otherwise it's very cool.

Did you ever saw a crow irl? they have such beaks!

Myomoto · #7 11-11-2006, 02:52 PM

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Did you ever saw a crow irl? they have such beaks!

Yes, infact I have, hence my statement of it's beak being too fat

Sam · #8 11-11-2006, 02:56 PM

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Yes, infact I have, hence my statement of it's beak being too fat

Oh I see you are right, you beat me with your experience.

Myomoto · #9 11-11-2006, 03:00 PM

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Oh I see you are right, you beat me with your experience.

Look, a crow has a rather big, but slender, beak, the drawing has a rather round and big beak.

A'right?

Crono · #10 11-11-2006, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Myomoto

Look, a crow has a rather big, but slender, beak, the drawing has a rather round and big beak.

A'right?

i think it only looks like that because it's beak is closed

Myomoto · #11 11-11-2006, 03:44 PM

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i think it only looks like that because it's beak is closed

Or maybe it's the "cheek", I dunno.

Tom · #12 11-11-2006, 04:03 PM

Crows are awesome, but this also is

Elk · #13 11-11-2006, 06:59 PM

i like it

WanDaMan · #14 11-11-2006, 07:40 PM

Wow, very impressive! Nice job =D

Galdor · #15 11-11-2006, 07:49 PM

looks cool step =)

Stephen · #16 11-11-2006, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Draenin

Birds tend to have more elongated, slender, curvy bodies. The problem with the bird lies mainly in the pose. The bird's back is very rigid, forcing it to look at the ground which is a very weird place for it bo be looking with wings outstretched, considering that birds usually look down at places to land, or if they are in search of something on the ground, but usually that's not often with wings outstretched.

This is clearly a stylized drawing

If you're not sure what "Stylization" in illustration is (although I'm sure you are), look it up on Google.

maximus_asinus · #17 11-11-2006, 08:11 PM

I think it looks pretty neat, it'd make a good tattoo.

Stephen · #18 11-11-2006, 08:15 PM

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I think it looks pretty neat, it'd make a good tattoo.

That was actually my original intent - however I'm going to fix it a bit. Some of the lines on it are too even and small. Looks pretty bad right now.

Look at the lines I put on it's "thigh". Looks pretty nice there.

xAndrewx · #19 11-11-2006, 10:07 PM

Woah, I'd steal that and place it as my avatar if allowed

Stephen · #20 11-12-2006, 08:34 AM

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Woah, I'd steal that and place it as my avatar if allowed

Go nuts

Stephen · #21 11-12-2006, 10:15 AM

As I said earlier, I was going to work on this more. However I took a second look at it in Illustrator and I'm ashamed to call it my work. I redesigned it entirely, please tell me which of the two designs is better.

Magadal · #22 11-12-2006, 10:30 AM

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As I said earlier, I was going to work on this more. However I took a second look at it in Illustrator and I'm ashamed to call it my work. I redesigned it entirely, please tell me which of the two designs is better.

The one on the left is cooler :P

Edit: Haha, nice copyright thingy xD

xAndrewx · #23 11-12-2006, 10:51 AM

Love you :]
I like the left one--

Draenin · #24 11-12-2006, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

This is clearly a stylized drawing If you're not sure what "Stylization" in illustration is (although I'm sure you are), look it up on Google.

I was going to mention that in my first post. Don't jump in my face or I'll jump down your throat, and you know it.

Also, don't even start to use 'stylization' here because people will start to rape that term like they do with other stuff. It's stylized, sure, but you might want to mention that it's stylized to look like an illustration / tattoo and not simply just 'stylized.' You'd give people the wrong idea and give them the notion that they can use that as a term to defend any slight mistake in their work. Your bird's pose was stiff and rigid, whether it was stylized or not. The wings were curvy, the back stiff, and I decided to make a point of it.

Stephen · #25 11-12-2006, 08:05 PM

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I was going to mention that in my first post. Don't jump in my face or I'll jump down your throat, and you know it.

oplz

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but you might want to mention that it's stylized to look like an illustration / tattoo and not simply just 'stylized.'

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That was actually my original intent

(this is me saying it was intended as a tattoo design).

WHAT YOU SAY?

Also, from my second design it's quite evident that I have some fairly intense stylization going on.

Crono · #26 11-12-2006, 08:16 PM

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Also, don't even start to use 'stylization' here because people will start to rape that term like they do with other stuff.

i stylized my pluffy in the thread i created ya

alarid0 · #27 11-12-2006, 09:05 PM

:O
Woah...

Ok first off since I never commented on the first one...
It is kind of stiff but I like how you made it look like a design on some medival wood burned image. The linear shading you did is great

That second crow, however....
Woah...
I don't know what to say. I love it. Alot.
Definitely go with the one on the left.

Amazing crest

Draenin · #28 11-12-2006, 10:43 PM

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(this is me saying it was intended as a tattoo design).

It's cool that that's what you meant, but it's not what you said.

Stephen · #29 11-12-2006, 10:52 PM

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It's cool that that's what you meant, but it's not what you said.

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oplz

Hehe.

Myomoto · #30 11-12-2006, 11:03 PM

Love the new one.
And by new I mean the new left one, of course.

lancelot9 · #31 11-13-2006, 12:25 AM

i like the one on the left 2.. the tail seems a bit big tho

nice work i love it anyways

Zideruic · #32 11-13-2006, 01:43 AM

is that a chicken?

Demisis_P2P · #33 11-13-2006, 01:58 AM

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is that a chicken?

Yeah. It breathes fire and roasts itself. Proof of evolution.

Stephen · #34 11-13-2006, 02:00 AM

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Yeah. It breathes fire and roasts itself. Proof of evolution.

The egg came first, duh

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is that a chicken?

Please refer to the title of the thread for your answer.

Zideruic · #35 11-13-2006, 02:24 AM

Looks like some kind of strange crow-chicken hybrid.