#peacock-pheasant

I was in the mood to paint some beautiful birds and this one has been on my list for a long time. Such gorgeous colors! ❤ 

This is a boy who has lost his family.

At first I wanted to draw both female bird and male bird (they probably look different…🤔), but unfortunately I couldn't find photographs of the female bird. There are few photos of the species on the Internet, which is probably a bad news. I do know 徐 has drawn amazing illustrations of Hainan peacock-pheasants. I've only seen the female Hainan peacock-pheasant from one of their science illustrations, but looking at one image won't be enough for me to draw a proper illustration. So in the end I only draw the male bird.

It was not very easy for me to draw the character, and I didn't feel well that day. I was too tired to draw the lustre (probably green) of the eye-shaped patterns. 😩😩😩

Patterns of the actual bird don't look exactly like this. Parts of the eye-shaped patterns will usually be hidden by feathers. When the male bird displays his feathers, I guess most of the "eyes" can be seen. I didn't really care about space or depth or the relation of feathers when I drew, because of the style (I didn't even draw the feathers of his body or his mouth). 😂😂😂I didn't mention this on Instagram, but said this on Weibo, since my text looks too freaking long on Instagram, and I was tired, and people can search for the species on the Internet (probably not easy) and then see the species's appearance anyway.

Grey peacock-pheasant looks similar to this species, but their facial colours are really different. I notice that lots of people mistake grey peacock-pheasants (yellow face) as Hainan peacock-pheasants (red face). 🤔My art is at least pretty accurate in some ways.

It took me about 5 hours and 47 minutes to draw the picture (including adding watermarks and the species's name).

CREXY2000L嘅第111个原创post。

メスに注目されるべくディスプレイやプレゼンティングを繰り返すハイイロコクジャクのオスに某大統領の面影をみてしまった。

花鳥園的にそのポジションにキンイロキンケイを推してるんだけど。色に惑わされないでほしい。

January 24, 2015 - Palawan Peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis)

Requested by: Elio Grieco and taylorrbranham

Grey Peacock-pheasant (1745) by George Edwards. Plate from 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds' (published London 1743-51).