Digital painting of Abbott’s starling, made as a commission for squawkoverflow.com, a very nice bird collecting game. Puedes ver el sitio y mi dibujo aquí.
There are not many pictures of this bird, so I have used references of similar birds (like Sharpe’s Starling and Purple-backed Starling) to get a better and more realistic result.
I started with some pencil studies, then I did the painting in greyscale with Procreate and finally I worked in Photoshop on the colouring and final details.
Studies
Preliminary sketch for the illustration
Painting process with Procreate
Final digital painting done with Photoshop
Short video of the greyscale painting process
