Field guide
Finnaly I got from the print-house the first field guide illustrated by me. This field guide was edited within the project “Systematic environmental education program in Mures County”, started in autumn 2007 by Milvus Group. My role was to illustrate the birds and design the book. There are some pictures of the fieldguide.
The illustrations was made in water-color technic and tunned up in Photoshop :) I’ll show here some bird illustrations:
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Bad European Water Shrew photo
Here I’ll show how I tunned up this bad photo of European Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens)
First I cutted out the shrew from the background and calibrated the color balance.
Next, I pasted the new background.
There is the photo after correction. :)
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Common buzzard Drawing
I made this pencil drawing after a photo. I liked the juvenile common buzzard (Buteo buteo) very light feathers color and I decided to illustrate in black and white.
A4 size – pencil drawing
Here is the head detail:
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Long-billed Murrelet was identified
These sketches I made when in december 2006 was found and identified a Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix), the first Romanian record for the species.
And that is the final drawing of the bird.
You can read about the observation on the Milvus Group hompage. here
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My back works
My early painting was made with Photoshop due to my designer job I use this software all day and night :)
My first paint was this Kingfisher (Alcedo athis). All my digital paints I start whit a new document with white background. I use an 50% brown brush to finish a sketch of the bird. Next I begin to add some colour to the picture using a large brush. I’m not concerned with the details too much, just trying to pick the right colours. After I set the colours I begin to add details with a smaller hard brush with different opacity. Well, I keep doing this until I’m happy with the result of the detail and harmony of colors and forms. In the end I do a small adjusting of the three-dimensional aspect of the kingfisher with the Burn and Dodge tools.
Unfortunately the original digital file of this kingfisher I lost. Only this print what I have but due to the early inkjet technology (1999) the resolution is not as good as today inkjet prints. :(
Here are some details from the print:
This Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) I painted in 2006. Here I painted a dark background to emphasize the brownish colors of the dipper.
The size of the work is 15,74×8,48 inch at 400DPI.
Here are some details from the paint:
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