- since I love oil painting animals from references so much, I figured that I'd try to replicate my traditional work in oekaki for an art class of mine that I just started recently. it's quite different from how my artwork would normally appear, but I kinda like it? I tend to paint birds, so I've been trying to expand to other animals deer lately <3
since my tablet's screen is so small and I needed room for my canvas, I ended up pulling the image open on my phone and just winging it from there xD I always paint by eye since replicating the image in small sections or by flat out tracing is cheating imo. they made me do it in my previous art classes so I was not a v happy camper; that's why I moved to this new class instead !! someday I'd like to not use any references at all like my grandfather, but I'm still working on that haha. I still have a ways to go ;v;
[x] reference was pulled from my art class' licensed photo collection on dropbox
![[x]](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypgwk24j8uu6cvy/deer2.jpg){kind=link}