Owl reference

Owl's sketches for today's warm up 🦉✏️

More barn owl drawings (photo reference) Hoo!

My sketches and designs for week 3 of the creature anatomy course I'm in. Week 3 focused on bird and dinosaur anatomy. I decided to combine owl anatomy and the anatomy of abelisaurs for my creature. Below you can see a few of the studies I did of owls and various abelisaurs along with final design.

Description Some of you may follow me on Tumblr others don't but I've started a daily routine to force myself to practice what I'm not great. For the foreseeable future that's gonna be animal drawing. It's one of the things I've been critiqued about in my portfolio so I'm rectifying it. These will be rough quick sketches I'll post daily, part of me was going to keep them off DA because they were more spontaneous and not refined to full illustration. However I think it's important to show…

Male Barn Owls tend to have "whiter" feathers and less speckling than their females counterparts. The females have more speckles that are dark red brown, grey and black on the top and undersides of their wings and body. As with most birds, the females are slightly larger than the males.