I’d run across a photo of a blue hummingbird sitting in the cup of a flower and fell in love with the image. The shapes and lines and colors all appealed to me. So I added it to my collection of photo references.
This week, I finally had the time to see if I could capture it in my artwork. I took some pictures along the way.
I decided that getting a sense of the flower was what I needed to get down first. It was the key to the rest.
The fun part about stippling, especially when working in color is that you can get a great deal of subtlety to an image. That was what I did with the flower.
Then there was coloring the bird.
Filling in the rest was a challenge, because I wanted to get enough variation in the background (which was not well defined in the original photograph that I worked from). But in the end, I was pleased with what I achieved.
UPDATE: I have, since this drawing was completed and named, learned that the bird is actually a Kingfisher, not a Hummingbird. Oh well. Such is life. 🙂
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