Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

I'm still just playing around with Krita and the default brush which is an ink pen. I started just drawing some curvy lines, and it turned into the eagle's beak, so I went with that. With the stern expression on his face I think I might have wanted to give him a stern pose. He's rather aggressively leaning forward, which wasn't necessarily intentional, but kind of worked. Then I put him on a perch, but it was floating in the air, so I made it attached to a pole that was high up. "How high?" you might ask. Quite a bit. "Can you be a bit more specific?" you continue. Fine, I'll show you how high. So I decided I'd draw some things on the ground, like rooftops of houses. I mostly wanted to suggest what they were because drawing things accurately requires drawing straight lines.

Then I thought about the term "eagle eyed" and thought about putting thick glasses on the eagle, but if I didn't like them, I didn't want to have to undo it (and this was a simple drawing so I wanted to keep it on one layer). So I drew the glasses in the big blank area in the upper right quadrant. And then for reasons of which I'm not certain, I drew a second, younger bird attached to the glasses.

I was going to draw a dashed line from the eagle's eyes to the smaller bird in an "I'm watching you and don't like you" way, but I don't know much about making Krita go right now. I tried modifying the brush and let's just say it didn't turn out the way I was expecting (alternatively, we could also say it looked like the eagle was projecting a "sperm-vision ray" and even though I've no idea what in the hell that would be, that's what it would look like).

Moving on, I added some clouds to continue to suggest it's up high and added some wooden texture to the pole and called it a day. The full size image is here.