A partridge in a pear tree 🎶

HI!!! And welcome back to my blog! Thank you guys so much for 30 followers, I really appreciate it!🤗❤️. And so to show my appreciation to you guys, I decided to make my own challenge, for myself, for you guys. I don’t think I’ve heard or seen anyone do this challenge before but it is… drawing from Notes (in Apple). Now if you don’t know what Notes is, it’s an app that you get when you get an Apple phone or IPad. This application has only a marker, highlighter, pencil, and eraser to work with, but on the bright side, you can change the opacity and size for each one (except the eraser). They also have a limited color palette, meaning that you can’t make your own colors, and you are not able to layer. So here it goes…

Sketching Now sketching this was complicated because I legit did not know what a partridge was until I searched it up on Pinterest for a reference photo. I ended up with the one that was a Christmas ornament to draw with, because it was easier to color. Then, I realized that I’ve also never seen a pear tree before… so I searched it up again. Now going back to the sketching, I did realize that I wasn’t able to layer and I couldn’t just erase the sketch or else the bird will look like it was an alien. So I decided to just leave the sketching and try to layer it with the marker.

Coloring Onto the coloring stage, I selected the highlighter and set it to about 60% opacity and the medium size. Then I just colored in the bird and struggle to try to find the perfect color. But thank the white- colored highlighter because it saved my life ( I don’t know why, but it just did)!!

Coloring and adding in more details…

Outlining and putting highlights For outlining, I struggled a lot trying to get it perfectly outlined without the white background showing. However, I really didn’t care about that anymore because I got so frustrated, so the white parts are still going to show up. And for the dots on the feathers, I took a white marker and just drew on it. I also did this with the eyes and the streak of white on the head.

Background This stage is where I decided to put things around the bird and as usual, I put a circle. Then, I decided to put writing on it so that other people who never knew what a partridge is know what it is.