The Overflight (over the border wall) from another perspective

Today, with newfound confidence in my Inner Artist, I decided to re-imagine the Overflight scene from scratch. I got out pencil and paper and practiced drawing flapping butterfly wings. Drawing wings in perspective is really tough. I tried to do it from imagination, but that didn’t work. Then I remember reading in James Gurney’s Imaginative Realism that he sometimes creates models of his characters and poses them in the positions he needs for his paintings. Tomorrow I’ll make a 2D version of Buddy’s wings to see what they really look like when they’re curved upwards.