* * * For  HarlequinFinch, who has permission to repost. * * *

Shen recently aquired an old, beat-up record player for almost nothing. With the needle broken off and the speaker banged up, most would find it a piece of junk. But as long as you have a nice, pointy beak, you'll be able to listen to them tunes no matter what the condition. The only downside is she can't dance to the beat. =P

Real Erika says:

And this is why I made these people promise not to get mad if the art isn't very good. =P

Okay, I'll admit, it's not as bad as I expected, but it's also not as good as I had hoped. Besides the fact that I'm WAY out of practice, it's also my first time drawing a bird that I can recall, and on top of that, I'm returning to art by attempting what would otherwise be a rather awkward pose. Well, at the very least, I'll have the satisfaction of knowing at least one person will enjoy this. =)

Despite the years spent not drawing, this still resembles my old art by quite a bit. I'm hoping to shift my art into a more cartoonish style. Maybe for the next picture, I'll work on that. With this one, I pretty much put the pencil to the paper and watched what happened.

Lineart took maybe a half-hour. Coloring took a few hours, on account I'm still getting used to coloring digitally, and I had trouble figuring out how to get rid of the "dirty" look of the scan without having to redo the lineart digitally.

Had to get my brother to reinstall his scanner for the lineart. It's always nervewracking waiting to see if the device driver installation is successful.