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"Finishing Touches" by Brenda M. Lyons

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My entry for the Cross Fine Lines Pen and Ink Scholarship Competition. The guidelines for the competition were to draw anything you wanted in pen and ink. Being a pen company, I figured it would be fun to draw birds using their own tail feathers as quills to draw each other (of course it had to be birds).

 I received a letter letting me know that the entries had been judged and I was chosen as an honorable mention winner! I received a $100 gift certificate which I promptly used to buy this awesome, green field bag that I had been lusting over for a while.

The only thing that makes me sad is that they said they couldn't return any of the originals, so I made sure to take a nice scan before shipping it off.

Micron pens, Higgins drawing ink, 11X14 inches




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25 Jun 2008:-) Sarah Charles
Too bad you couldn’t send them a scan of the piece, or trace it. This is so cool!
25 Jun 2008:-) Heidi Hecht
Wicked detail on this one. (I mean wicked in a good way.) Awesome job on the feathers. I’m trying to draw some of my own winged characters and it’s unbelievable how hard it is to get it exactly right! I love those tails...
25 Jun 2008:-) Linia (cowlover) D.
That is amazing! Even more amazing because it was done in ink! And the detail! This is one of my all time favs.
26 Jun 2008:-) Natalie Beth Myers
O.O the details! WOW! this is just so beautiful and well done! how can you people stand to sit there that long to do something like that. and in pen! ouch! awesome work! =)
26 Jun 2008:-) Neng Yang
This is an awsome drawing. The details are just amazing!!13
26 Jun 2008:-) Chris GamerBoy Noneofurbusiness
Woah love the detail of the wings and the tree. Keep it up!
26 Jun 200845 Michele
this is so beautiful..... wonderful details ......great concept
11 Jul 200845 Drachengeist
Wonderfully detailed.
11 Jul 2008:-) Sherri L. White
Congrats on the win ...you should have gotten first place ...Can’t imagine anything beating this . Frelling amazing detail ...OMG wow !!! Ink ??? Whoa !!!
20 Dec 2012:-) Shenandoah S Wrobel
Very cool concept! Keep doing your thing.
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'Finishing Touches':
 • Created by: :-) Brenda M. Lyons
 • Copyright: ©Brenda M. Lyons. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Bird, Birds, Finishing, Magic, Pen, Touches
 • Categories: Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters
 • Techniques: Black Ink
Modpick •  Mod Pick at: 2008-06-25 10:00:02
 • Submitted: 2008-06-23 06:29:21
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