#septembirb

I made this for an IG challenge called septembirb. This is the squirrel cuckoo! I've seen this birds in person and their brown color is so beautiful.

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Turned people into Birds last night in stream!! 9/12

First one is mine, made to promo the stream~

And Septembirb continues! Sorry about the bad quality on this one. I’m thinking at the end of each week I’ll make a post with all of that week’s pictures, so if I do I’ll add a better one.

Today’s prompt was Eurypygimorphae! This is one of those ones that I had to step back to the clade, because the orders were so narrow. The clade has a whopping six extant species! Three tropicbirds, two kagu, and the sunbittern.

Let’s get two things straight here:

1) I love the sunbittern. Seriously. It’s up there on my list with magpies and frogmouths. That being said...

2) I never draw coastal birds. Something about them baffles me, and I don’t know what it is. They look too...smooth? I don’t know.

Basically, because this is an art challenge, I ended up choosing the red-billed tropicbird over the sunbittern. It’s...it’s a good first attempt, how about that? The head is solid, and I like the wings overall. The feathers have just enough detail to them to create form and texture, but not so much that it looks overworked. However, I feel like I got the shape wrong, which really detracts from the streamline shape of those wings. Same with the tail, and the barring leaves something to be desired.