The last couple of weeks have been pretty rough. My desktop power supply was fried during a storm, I caught a major cold that I’m still trying to kick, hit a deer with my car, fell holding my camera so now the anti-shake on the lens malfunctions and had to complete wipe the drive on…
For step 3, I focused on fleshing out the background and really making it look like clouds. I also decided to change my plans for the opening in the clouds from a town to an island. After all what self respecting fire bird would prefer a city to an island paradise?
I stumbled upon an art contest that called for the artist to portray what a phoenix would like like if it were crossed with a peacock. As I love both of these birds, I couldn’t help but create a quick doodle. I hope to develop this into a larger scale more complex work at some…
