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April-A — Regal Eagle
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This is beautiful 
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i like how you blended all the colors together
nice!
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I haven't had the chance to fave you in a little while. Thank you for posting this beautiful work.
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Gorgeous colors and details. I love how the white spots look like stars...
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I was blown away when I saw this piece. The colors, composition, everything about it is perfect IMO. Show you have great mastery of the medium.
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Love the way you've done the texture on this! Wonderful anatomy and hilighting on the head. Great gallery, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for checking it out
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That is fabulous
He looks like he could be an important character in some mythology, I feel like he trails the night behind him as he flies. Regal indeed.
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Thank you, that's awesome!
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I love how it brings up the idea of space and stars and cosmic beauty.
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Thanks I'm glad other people see the stars in his feathers. I hoped that I had suggested the night sky clearly enough but it is hard to know until you get some feedback.
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The colors are wonderful, it gives the painting a misterious atmosphere! Love it
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I'm in love with Alizarin crimson
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Oh my, this is REALLY lovely. I really love the birds face, all the straight and almost mechanical lines - especially around his eyes, and I love how his body almost looks like a starry sky. REALLY good job with the colouring on the bird.
Only thing I'm hesitant about is the choice of colour on the background. I feel like the brown is contrasting a bit weirdly with the pink/red on the bird, I would probably have gone for something blue/greenish, or at least something a little less saturated to let the bird be more in focus.
Anyway, that's just a minor detail, overall I think this is a really great work and you're really talented
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Thanks! It was tedious getting all those lines just right.
I chose those browns to flatten the image overall and bring out the strong lines. I had hoped that the strong difference in values of the bird and the background would be enough to help him stand out. I considered blue or green but I thought that would create some illusion of scenery and space (sky or trees) and I was more interested in the lines for this particular painting. I wanted it to be flat. If I wasn't trying to do something weird I would have to agree with you 100% on the color choice. That's just how I felt about it though. It may not work for everyone but thanks for the thoughtful feedback. I like to hear what I can do to improve^^
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This looks really amazing!
I especially like the colours you used, because red and blue are not exactly colours one would commonly expect in a bird but in your drawing, they look great! I also really like the way the colours fade into white on the feathers in the forground.
In general, I really like the composiition her, the way you arranged the bird's face and the straight lines in the background. I think the lines are great because they create an interesting but not distracting background that is also related to the actual subject - the bird's feather's look a bit similar to those lines because of your clean lines and how straight they are.
In general, your lines are very good because they are so focused and accurate! This can be seen on the birds face - It looks really amazing, especially it's eyes and beak because of the lines you used.
This is a really lovely painting, I adore it!
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Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it. I think the background took five washes to get that glow but all of the colors that I used I chose to help the lines control the composition.
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