some birds

So here's something that I drew last night. The idea is going to be incorporated into a comic hopefully in the next few days. I'm just posting this because I like the picture, and because I haven't put anything up here in a while. I hope you like it. I'm still getting used to doing any sort of drawing with pencil, particularly shading. It just takes so long to do. I guess it proves that I don't have a future as an illustrator, since I don't have the patience to spend more than a few minutes on a drawing. Maybe that's the point of pencil drawings though...



This is one of my favorite animals. The lyrebird is unique in its ability to reproduce sounds it hears to incorporate into its mating call. For the lyrebird, the more exotic the sound, the more attractive the mate. This video is of the Albert's lyrebird, which lives in a specific part of the Southern Queensland rainforest in Australia. The end of the video is pretty devastating, as this lyrebird heard some very peculiar sounds for its environment.



Finally, some art for a record Emily and I did last summer. The record isn't finished yet, but its about birds, and I thought it was appropriate to post. I'll probably try to finish that up in the next few weeks so that it can be finished and posted before Europe happens.