Barn Swallow Practice Painting

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This was a draft of a Barn Swallow I was working on, I think it came out pretty well! I really scribbled out the initial image hard in graphite pencil before going in with fineliner and Indian ink. I really love the scratchy, frenzied quality, even though I was surprisingly pretty chilled out whilst creating the painting.

I used Brusho for that instant pop of deep dramatic colour.