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Monday, September 07, 2009

Bearish Bird

Or it's a birdish bear, it's a critter with a pecker? Anyway, it's a candidate for inclusion in "Birds & Pencils"!




Colour palette

Photo: Wikimedia

Images ©2009 by Satzinger & Hardenberg. World rights reserved.

Sorry for being away for a while! Big thanks to everyone who's viewed and commented on my sketches and things!

17 comments:

  1. Gross. Geile Farben. Echt schön.

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  2. Came across your blog recently and ended up browsing through each and every artwork of yours. Really amazing stuff... Instant fan and follower. Great designs! :)

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  3. Love the design. I can't help but find inspiration from your work. Thanks for sharing. So gonna paint now.

    -carl
    kidfrodo.com - sketchblog

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  4. So amazing ! And I love it !
    Je cherchais un sketchbook de vos travaux, mais il ne semble pas en exister...

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  5. Joern, vielen Dank, rote Johannisbeeren haben mich auf die Farben gebracht :o)

    Sinu, many thanks for your kind comment!

    Kalonji! CHEERS!

    Carl, great! :)

    Ideo, THANK YOU!! :o)

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  6. REaly nice again ..!!!
    Love that work on colors..!
    I learn.. I learn

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  7. Loving the looseness and energy in each design. Can't wait for the next one and when is this book coming out!

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  8. Thanks for showing your color process. The concept art at the bottom is great...and the raw color palette next to the berries all make for a great series of illustrations.

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  9. I like it Florian , i hope you can finish it some day.
    .I would like see it!

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  10. Amazing, Florian, as always.
    I have a question: Was the character originally supposed to be the "A" in "READ"? The last sketch seems to suggest that :D

    Cheers, my friend!

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  11. Your crawings make me happy, so hope it's ok that I use some off them as background on my computer? Keeps my spirits up all day long :)

    Keep up the amazing work, I will be watching :D

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  12. Ops... it should say DRAWINGS in my comment...

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  13. read or red?! magic, sure !!

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