Hastily animated birds, part two
/There was snow on the ground, as you may or may not be able to tell.
See also: Hastily animated birds, part one (Melodramatic Gull).
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Talk talk talk
/It was an alarmingly verbose week, with (a) an interview and (b) a sketching workshop during National Geographic Storytellers Summit, not to mention (c) an unrelated lecture for NYC Audubon. The interview is below.
And here’s the sketching session. For some reason the stream skipped right over the most important sketching tip (BE MESSY). Also, I feel obliged to clarify that tubenose seabirds like albatrosses, shearwaters, and storm-petrels are not all in the same taxonomic family; they are in the same order (PROCELLARIIFORMES).
Now, back to my customary limit of 10 words per day.
Melodramatic gull
/You never know when an old voice memo of piano noodling will come in handy as background music for 43 sketches. See also: Hastily animated birds, part two: Tentative Goose.
What’s in the bucket?
/Answer! Juvenile salmon, a.k.a. parr (the stage between fry and smolt).
Success for seabirds
/A story of rare good news for seabirds, thanks to conservationists in Mexico.
