The Drawing Process of “Wallcreeper Bird”

Recently I am drawing several kinds of birds, that’s an art challenge #birbfest2023 on instagram. I knew nothing about the birds, so by this challenge I could take a chance to know some of them. Here let me show you how I drew this bird – wallcreeper.

As usual, I did a research on Pinterest, Wallcreeper is a very beautiful bird, for me it looks kind like a butterfly, with the red spot on the black feathers. I did some sketches of wallcreepers with different postures. Then I preferred to draw one flying with wings spread open.

I was thinking how to draw these beautiful wings, then I decided to use Indian Black Ink on the acetate paper. The acetate paper is transparent, so I could just put on my sketch and trace it and draw it directly on the acetate paper. Recently I like to draw on the acetate paper with ink, it does make a nice texture, and it’s easy to do the scratch effect using some pointed objects. Then I scanned the acetate paper into Photoshop, and used an image of a red textured paper I had under the bird layer, Below you can see the result.

Don’t know why I just didn’t like the Black-Red version, so I tried to blend with other colors on Photoshop. I scanned another textured paper into Photoshop to make to background. It was some ink stain, maybe passed by roller (couldn’t remember how I made it long time ago). Then as usual I’ve tried many kinds of layer blending and color blending effects on Photoshop. Finally got one satisfying result as you can see at top.

Hope you like this article about how I’ve drawn this wallcreeper. If you have any suggestion please let me know. You can leave comments under or on my facebook page. If you want to see my other birds drawing for this art challenge, please check my Instagram.. On my youtube channel, in “Studio Vlog 3” video, there is a part I drew two Nicobar Pigeon. https://youtu.be/GOSW8LghnY4

Thank you for reading. See you next time.