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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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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