This was a piece I had started in my Design I class when we were taking time to play around with art apps to get a feel of drawing on the Ipad. After doing most of this on the ipad, I did some touching up and refining in PaintTool Sai. I decided to post it here for my Digital Art class, since it's completely digital!
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| Autumn Flight, done on the Inksy Application on the Ipad, then later edited in PaintTool Sai. |
Bonus:
So with this digital
drawing I’m going to take a quick moment to promote bats, because they
typically have such a bad rap! Here are some interesting tidbits on these little guys:
- Bat's are the only mammal truly capable of flight.
- Fewer than 10 people in the last 50 years have contracted rabies from North American bats. You are more likely to catch Malaria from mosquito.They bite only in self-defense and pose little threat to people who do not handle them.
- On that note, one bat can eat up to 1000-2500 pesky mosquito's in an hour.
- Many plants rely on bats for pollination and seed dispersal.
- Bats are often seen as gross or vile, but they are in fact highly clean animals. They are known to groom themselves almost constantly when not eating or sleeping—making them like tiny flying cats!
- Bat droppings in
caves support whole ecosystems of unique organisms, including bacteria
useful in detoxifying wastes, improving detergents, and producing
gasohol and antibiotics.
Please never harm a bat, they
are protected under federal law and it is illegal to kill bats. Knowing
this, they are very vulnerable to extinction, as they only give birth to one
pup per year—and they’re already becoming endangered thanks to
white nose syndrome which can wipe out a total colony of bats. These little guys can have
a life span of up to
40 years, being
one of the world’s longest-lived mammals for its small size.
Let’s not cut that short!
Besides, look how cute they are!?
Hopefully, if even a little bit, I've changed some bad perceptions of these guys.
