Seawing for Sam

So this is the last request I got from my journal post about FREE ART! it's for of his OC Seawing.

Seawing's description is basically a bright blue, action figure size bird man with large wings, one of which is covered in feathers, the other resembles that of a demon or a bat - loosely quoting the reference texts his head is that of a read tailed hawk. (I think I did okay with the head, but I'm not a twitcher, so don't rail on me for innacuracies )

I had a little bit of difficulty getting into this one, for a couple of reasons, first thing, I've only drawn a 'birdman' type character once before, and it was a head and shoulders shot, nothing more, and it was straight on, which made it a little easier. The other reason, was that I just couldn't get the right pose.

I was trying to do a full body pose with the character with his wings spread out in a real heroic kinda pose, but I just couldn;t get it to work, it didn't read right, no matter how many different ways I tried.

So I settled on doing a 'bust' shot of Seawing, this ended up making this alot of fun, even the thumbnail was pretty cool.

I started to render this in the same way as the last 2, with pro markers and tech pens, but I realised that wasn't going to be enough, there was more texture than the others, so I broke out a white pencil for some mid highlights, and a white gel pen for the full highlights, as well as a 2H pencil to get some more definition on some of the feathers and stuff on his body.

I then added a blue hue and a little extra highlighting in photoshop, but it's only slight, nothing was erased or tweaked too much, so I'm calling it a traditional piece

anyway, let me know what you think, and if you have any requests, don't hesitate to ask, I'm still open... for now

thanks for looking!