The fourth and final piece to complete "The Runic Elements" composition. Creating the coulds on this one was fun. Creating the runic symbol for east was difficult, but I think I managed to get it balanced. It's a crane... kind of. I also borrowed anatomy and colors from the stork. Feather highlights are like stripes or scales, lots of fretwork.

If you'd like to see how this piece came to be, it's featured in a series of video speedpaint tutrorials on my YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/user/reivegan