Jed's Chicken Scratches

[Pictomancer]

... just a tip, on the last painting be carefull with the full blacks on the pupil, sometimes it's best to add a really saturated red/brown (with about 95% or 97% black)

Thanks rafa, went ahead and used really dark saturated greens and red/brown with about 97-98% black for the eyes as suggested. Hopefully that made an improvement.

Also went and tried to reduce all the pure blacks, and some of the pure whites on the image.

Still having trouble with the hair since I'm drawing it from imagination (can't find adequate enough references to match the hair), and trying to learn how to give it that hair strand/clump of strands texture.



Wondering if I should push the values a bit further to add more contrast.

Feedback and paint overs are greatly appreciated

... and a bunch of (really bad) no reference sketches; it's still a long way before I'm able to pull off decent anatomy and poses without reference.