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:new: This tutorial (all 3 parts) in book form: [link]
Full tutorial list: [link]


One word: WHEW!! :faint:

Finally, the third and last part of my Drawing Birds tutorial. It is absolutely essential to start with part 1, which deals with the actual drawing part, as parts 2 and 3 provide a guide of things to know about roughly 100 species.
Part 1: [link]
Part 2: [link]

If you spot typos or language mistakes do point them out please... I spent many a late evening on this :sleepy:

Things that should go without saying but I'll say anyway:
The birds are not to scale relatively to each other. I would have loved to make a diagram of bird sizes relatively to a human being, but I will have to leave it as a bonus for the tutorial book – along with a few interesting species I had to cut out for space.
Obviously, not all species are represented. My semi-arbitrary selection includes:
- Birds that are likely to come up in illustration;
- Birds that are unique or unusual and may provide inspiration for fantasy;
- Birds I like too much not to include.

NO part of this tutorial may be reproduced, so don't even ask!! if you find it helpful and want to share it, simply link to it.
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you are a genius. that is G e n i u s. no other word can describe you. I usually dont fav. tutorials, but you deserve to be known worldwide.... :worship:

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Genius or madness? It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide ;) Hehe thanks Sergio, I appreciate it! This took so much effing work!

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*squeals* Awesome bird references!!! Thank you!
My pleasure :D

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Wow! Another amazing job. I can well understand you fainting! =P It looks amazing, and will, as I said before, come in extremely useful when I next need to draw birds! =D
Yay, cockatiel! XD

Just a couple things; you might want to mention that only male peacocks have the brilliant green colors and the huge fan of a tail. I'm not sure if you've mentioned this in any of your tutorials, but you might want to also point out that many species are dimorphic.
I know some conures have a bit of skin around the eyes; for example, the green-cheecked.

Only other thing I've noticed is that it's probably more acurate to label the 'parakeet' as a budgie, since parakeet tends to refer to that overall class of birds (Parakeet can also be infered as, say, a Ring-necked Parakeet [link]) Although, on the other hand, alot of people tend to call them Parakeets anyways >_o
Also... you seem to have woodpeckers labelled as Parrots?
Anyways, great reference! I'll definetly bookmark this to look at :D
An absolute comprehensive guide...ooo peacock very handy, just stitching a feather....the eye bit very handy!

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I think I mentioned the dimorphism in part 2, where I have the introduction to this section, but I don't know if I want to cater to anyone who doesn't know only male peacocks have this tail :XD:. You may be right about parakeet, I was translating from French "perruche" and apparently got the wrong word.
Oops I must have forgotten to retype the woodpecker label, going to check! Thanks for the help!

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Thanks, and sorry I didn't include your canary ;)

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Phowarrr. This alone can be extended into a book project, wery well done. out of curiosity, how many layers? =)

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