Sichuan Partridge - Blog Posts

四川山鹧鸪 Sichuan partridge (Arborophila rufipectus). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

This is a pretty happy family. The parents and their baby daughter.

I don't usually draw happy families. ☹️

I might made some mistakes. I'm not sure whether I drew every partridge accurately or not. The patterns on the child's body are likely to be wrong. The adults are probably fine. 😂

An actual female bird's plumage might look a bit darker. The colours and patterns of a real partridge are actually more complicated. Another thing is that I didn't really draw too many feathers, but I still needed to know the position of the patterns. It took me at least a day to look at some photos and short documentaries and to try to understand the species's anatomy (drawing this family could also help me understand the species in some ways😂). I realized that I made a mistake when I coloured the toes and claws of the mother, since I noticed that the claws of Sichuan partridges are really different from that of eared pheasants/ Hainan peacock-pheasants/ chickens, so I redrew the claws. 😂

There should be more children (as far as I know), but drawing more than one child means that it will be a bit more difficult for me to deal with the composition of the picture.

I am pretty familiar with creating lineart, so I drew the lines of the characters first. Then I coloured the kid, and then I dealt with the mother (who was the most challenging one), after designing the mother's patterns, the father was pretty easy to colour. 😂

It took me about 8 hours and 40 minutes to design and draw this. It was tiring. ☹️

I feel kind of horrible now, and I don't know if I want to keep posting things… 😩😩😩😂😂😂

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于2021年2月9号发布。