Illustration Friday: "Wise"

Forgive me for resurrecting a picture posted a long while back, but I knew I wouldn't have time to explore something new this week. It's not the most original interpretation of the word - I'm guessing there will be a number of owls posted this week. But it is one of my favorite drawings and it's always fun to see how everyone can approach the same subject in different ways.

At one point, I xeroxed the drawing and colorized it with watercolors to see how that would look (yes - I'm that low-tech). The result is below.

Must...keep...drawing...

I haven't been working on very much this week - kind of feeling the need to breathe a bit. However, I did start a redraw of the chicken and I've "thought" about doing some other stuff (it's the thought that counts, right?).

OK, maybe not.

A little while ago, I took one of my favorite pencil doodles, xeroxed it (that's about as high-tech as I get), and added some watercolor washes over it. This was the result.

I don't think I shared it before - at least not the color version. It was one of my boss's favorites, so I framed it and gave it to her for her birthday (she's been very encouraging of my pursuits in illustration).