Crow, preliminary drawing, pencil on paper

This is to be the start of a crow painting. The pose is worked out, the large masses are noted and I generally have the structure pretty well understood. Yeah, not the feet so much…
Onward.

intelligent things make it into my inbox from time to time:
“…makes one wonder whether this is a matter of linked creative cells
or perhaps the existence of a cluster of cells that also cause suicidal substance-addictive bipolar (schizoaffective) personalities that make the subjects  unsuitable for cohabitation or even more than the slightest social contact but mess with the cluster and all of humanity will be living in pretty villages, involved in  tedious and repetitive Hi How are You Doing? lives, that exclude any curiosity and longing for adventure and revolving around just one routine, expressed by the ever-observant Parisians as
metro-boulot-dodo
commute-job-sleep”