thanks wendy, and weco! lol i actually have been using the google images, just to make sure i'm getting the bird anatomically correct. it's been a while since i have been around a bp2. i have other art work but i thought maybe i should start a album of bird artwork. this is not my first bird piece. i don't know were all the other's are. i love drawing birds, with the feathers, and all their texture. i have a huge asian style phoenix some were around here. i thought about digging that one out and adding that to the album. that is a pencil drawing i did a few years ago. i also designed some tribal ekkies for tattoo's. thats another hobby of mine, design tattoos. but animals are my favorite thing to draw.
WOW! That is some REALLY nice work, Heather!!! 
i had never expected that a single picture would have brought so much interest towards what i do. my family has always told me to do something with my art, i never thought about it because i didn't want something i love to turn into a burden. but no matter what the situation, i love to create!
if you are really interested just let me know, i can do a portrait, black and whites and color, im more skilled at realistically rather than cartoony but i tend to have a certain pen ash when it comes to the cartoony ones. they still kinda look realistic just with a cartoon touch. i will take pics of the fav's i have done so far. some are my own ink. i hope nobody steals my designs for themselves. that is the whole purpose of designing my own tattoos, because no body else has it but me.
