What's Going Into My Front Porch Windows? Eagles.

I'm rough sketching eagles to go into my front porch windows.

Imagine that.

For now they're very simple - graphite on cotton.

Whether or not I'll 'finish' them is anyone's guess. I'll deepen them of course; they're just lightly sketched for the moment. Otherwise, as long as you can tell what they're supposed to be from Main Street I'll probably leave them alone.

I'm making them on the rough side on purpose, using unfinished wood behind the cotton. 

I plan to get seven of them rough sketched tonight. I have to take a break now and then because my fingers, hand, arm, and shoulder get tired. 

Yeah I know - it's not like I'm 'overworking' them. Even so it isn't going to do me any good at all to push beyond reason or they will get overworked. 

When I get them all sketched I'll think about backgrounds. At the moment I'm leaning toward skyscapes in the six basic color families: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. The seventh one will probably have black coming in from the outside to white coming out from the eagle. Maybe I'll just use that for all of them, come to think of it, and skip the skyscapes.

Ach.

Who knows?

I reckon the eagles themselves will make that call. And yes I do realize that sounds weird. Cope as best you can. I have a hunch these eagles are going to be as bossy as our Characters are.

Speaking of whom ... yes, they're champing at their respective bits but are showing admirable restraint at the moment. After all this nation represents what they all lived and died to protect and preserve. They aren't going to balk about sharing a little time here so these eagles can have their say. 

And here they are - the first six anyway - in rough draft form. Yes, three and six are the 'same'. They flank the rest. Actually it was an accident. I was picking the birds as I went along and totally picked the same one twice.

No, they're not finished. There are times I kick myself for letting anyone see works in progress but then I think - what the heck - so be it.

Oh, and I've got one more to do but being as it's past my bedtime already and I have shifts to fill for a few days, rest sounds like it might be a good idea.

Here are these all lined up: