Mystic StarlightThe final entry in my Bird Omens series, we have the wonderful Madame Tracy, and the
Mystic StarlightThe final entry in my Bird Omens series, we have the wonderful Madame Tracy, and the grouchy Shadwell.Kyu knew, right away, what bird Shadwell had to be: a Bare-Faced Go-Away Bird. Yes, that is an actual bird. Yes, that means there is a higher classification of go-away-bird. I love ornithology. Madame Tracy is a beautiful Quaker Parrot. They have cute faces, especially when fluffed up, and stunning primary feather colouration on all variants. This piece fought me the entire way, but especially so when I had masking fail and my one of my ink sprayers explode, which meant I ended up with puddles of white ink seeping onto the line art instead of stars… The leaked white ink created problems of their own (see: very difficult to colour over) but I turned one splotch into a moon and made nebulae out of the rest. Tracy’s crystal ball was the worst afflicted area which I carefully watered down to remove as much of the ink I could before it could cure fully, but it meant I had a super slippery section that didn’t want to hold colour unless very carefully built up. I made it work and still got the easter-egg in there of it showing one of Aziraphale’s feathers despite the snafu. I managed to supersaturate the ink between her and Shadwell as well where the spill had done its worst with copics for nebulae so I’ll consider it both a save and a technique level up.I actually took a video of me doing the line transfer from sketch to pre-inks! You can check it out here if you’re curious:Others in the series:Aziraphale | Beelzebub & Gabriel | Crowley | Anathema & Newt | Michael, Uriel, & Sandalphon | Hastur, Ligur, & Dagon | Adam & The Them | Death & The Horsepeople -- source link
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