Chad Covino Illustrations Blog » birds

Toucan KaBLAMN!

Chad C. — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:37:58 +0000

(not really sure what type of Toucan this is, I took the reference photo at La Specola in Florence, Italy.)

Going back to making textures and cutting them out of paper, but still need to mix it with the ol wax jutsu. So far I’d say this is pretty nice, looks like my old professor Julia might have been onto something when she told me I should stick with cutting out textures. However, this piece is far from finished and I realize I don’t really know all that much about backgrounds. Where do I start?

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Indigo Bunting #1

Chad C. — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:30:58 +0000

There it is, all done. The first of two indigo buntings I’ve been working on. I see this bird around my house stuffing his beak like he’s got a free meal every day. Wait till he gets the bill…GET IT?! WHOAH BABY!
You love it.

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BLUE BIRDS

Chad C. — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:30:00 +0000

You saw the Cardinal and the Ukulele so here’s the Indigo Bunting I’ve been working on, well one of them. Same as the rest, I plan on selling these too from moo.com and Imagekind.

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It’s for the Birds.

Chad C. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:03:36 +0000

Drawing some birds and a ukulele. Might be prints…might be T-shirts…MIGHT BE FOR YOU?

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Finding your voice…

Chad C. — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:05:22 +0000

This is a personal piece that I started a few weeks back. It came about when I was talking to a friend of mine about how I developed my way of working…keep in mind this is only the rough.

When I was in college I had a hard time finding how I drew and where my Illustration ideas came from with all these things to think about and artists to look up into our heads with no time for it to sink in. We had a week off every 7 weeks but thats not long enough for things to sink in with me. See, my brain is like a Tivo, it records everything I tell it to but I don’t necessarily watch it until much much later. In fact I’m just starting to tune into things from my painting class in 1st year Illustration. haha

I really started to think about things the very last month of my final year. Our teacher gave us an assignment that would last 3 weeks, it was about figuring out who we were. So everyday for a few hours I would go home and write things down about myself that I knew, then I would just listen and watch to how I responded to things I didn’t know about myself. This was actually my favorite assignment of the year because it really focused on how we work and…how we WORK. haha. I knew I had a really short attention span and a short fuse so I worked that into how I would draw and so far, so good.

Dialog is another place where I get my ideas from and when my friend asked me “How did you find your voice” …I thought about it and said pretty much what I rambled about in the beginning but I says to him I says “It was hard to find my own voice when everyone around me was yelling.” So I drew a bird in a cage with other birds squawking around him. THATS IT. YAY BIRDS!

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Chad C.