Sketches of birds

Note : Minute details can be seen in enlarged view :)

What you see here is a bird in flight with it's wings spread out majestically. The key feature of this sketch is the amount of detail that i have imbued in it. The perfect posture, the grace, was a bit hard to achieve owing to the fact that birds are sort of difficult to sketch.  As you can see, the bird's legs are cringing into it's other end and the wingspan is quite respectable. The beak is long-ish and has a permanent  look of humbled seriousness. The feathers on the wing are all aligned uniformly and that was mainly the big challenge. As i said earlier, birds are intricate creatures to draw and that no margin of error can be tolerated in order to get that flawless look. That's why you need to have a fragile hand and need to draw the feathers with caution and tenderness. Took me quite some time to draw that one. These are primarily white birds.