Flight

Ive been enjoying drawing the animals lately. Capturing this owl's intensity with my pen proved to be quite difficult. I find that much of the motion comes from the eyes, and simply the fact that the eyes are so fixated upon one single point seems to bring the owl to life, and show its desire for the prey that it must have been attacking. I completed this work with Speedball SuperBlack India Ink and a Leonardt Soft Drawing nib. I quite like this nib, and prefer it to the Gillot 404 I sometimes use. It provides me a much more variable stroke, as can be seen on  most of the feathers.