Another day of sketching in the museum

Yesterday i've spend another day in the natural history museum. Lots of drawing and learning about birds anatomy and construction. 

Gyps Fulvus skeleton study.

Bubo Bubo skeleton.

Bubo Bubo skeleton.

Bubo Bubo skull studies.

Unfinished study of а taxidermy.

Calandra Lark (Melanocorypha calandra)
Another unfinished sketch...they told me, they're closing the museum 

Sketching skeletons at the museum

 I was at the Natural History Musem today for some sketching. Thanks to Profesor Boev and Boris Nikolov, i was able to see some "behind the scenes (and walls)"skeletons and bones...aaand spend the whole day there, with tones of dust and taxonomic!
The basic thing i was trying to do with those studies, was to capture the gesture of the skeleton, the movement and how the bones are connected with each other.
All sketches were made using bic pen.

First sketch of the day. Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) skeleton study

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) skeleton study, trying to learn what,where,how

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) skeleton study

Learning the names of the bones from that Golden Eagle skeleton

Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) skeleton.

I couldnt resist it - chicken bones served

I was out of time, so ive decided to make some small skull studies. Bearded vulture.

At the end of the day i still had some time for a quick study.
Alectoris Chukar

My working space. Birds everywhere.

More bird studies

All sketches are based on video footage, made with bic pen and white gel pen on toned paper sketchbook