Good chonker!

Thanks! 😊

This looks awesome. I feel like you've really got something going with the stlye. The ways that like the are just uniterupted strokes of the light that sit above the others, blended but not quite, lends itsefl really well to the 'oil piaint' look. And tonally, incorperating the blue as a cooler almost secondary/ambient light source is awesome. I would say however there might not be enough of that blue in the clouds. I can see that it is in there but it is kind of getting lost. It just feels like they loose a domention because they contrast with your main figure when they should be more harmonious. And I guess also with talons it looks like you used a conisitent brush size? so you end up loosing a little of the form which you did such a brilliant job capturing with the highlights from the warmer light source. So I would say there is no harm using a smaller brush to make sure your not loosing anything to the wider strokes.

sorry for jumping into like critique mode. I just think what you've done here is really awesome c:

Thanks, I appreciate it! Yeah, I definitely should have used that ambient, contrast-y cool lighting in the background.
I'm glad you liked it enough to give me some pointers, though! 🧡

Sometimes you just need to be an ambiguous mystery bird, and this is not only okay, but extremely valid 👍

Totally! It's because All Birds Are Good

Yeah the coloring here and textures of the brushes are looking great!
And your bird is wonderfully handsome as always, whether he's a specific species or not haha. x3

Ahh, thanks a plenty, Artie! 😊