It took me a little less time to get this composited than I thought it would. I’m planning to put some version of this in the AC art show, although I may tweak it a little between now and then.

OK, if anyone’s interested in getting a free piece of bird art from me (any species. I can draw pretty much any type of bird.) try to figure out as many birds in this picture as you can. Whoever gets the most right in a week or so wins. Either note me on FA, or email me (roz (dot) gibson (at) gmail –dot- com.) And if no one gets any right, then I’ll have to accept I’m a crappy bird artist who can’t draw recognizable species, and I won’t have to do a free picture for anyone.

And remember, these are specific species, not general (for example, the “F” bird is not “Falcon,” but a specific species of raptor that begins with an F.) And the “N” bird is not a kakapo!! Kakapo does not start with an “N!” Some of these are really, really obscure, so I’m not expecting anyone to get them all (I had a grand total of 2 choices for the “Q” bird, neither of which I’d ever heard of.)

As an additional note, the birds are not draw to scale here, although I did make an attempt to keep the small birds smaller than the others.
In any event, I had a ton of fun working on this. The birds were drawn and inked by hand, colored with (mostly) markers, then scanned and composited in Photoshop. In a few cases I did some digital editing to fix colors that scanned badly or too light.