Here’s a link to what I have on here, I don’t advertise stuff for sale here, 99% of what I do is commission based away from here, apart from the occasional member asking how much something might cost or if I want to sell a practice piece.
Is this what you have seen already ?
There are some other bits of my stuff scattered around here on other people’s threads.
That’s a nice pic, birds feathers are like hair and fur, a lot of details involved and difficult when irredescent. I have painted a few eagles and birds of prey. That pic would work very well with an airbrush, lots of soft edges and tones. Paint brushes create hard edges, unless it’s water colors, but detail is hard with watercolor. There is always conflict with effects and mediums lol.
Do you have a color wheel, understanding how color reacts and changes in combinations made a big difference to me combined with underpainting to create luminosity. Another thing is understanding how light and dark can make a big difference. The saying is light to show dark, and dark to show white.
An example would be a mid tone Grey looking white against dark black. I can’t shade in pencil I always start to dark and by the end it’s a big black mess lol.
I know its a work in progress so you may not have addressed these bits yet so sorry if I am pointing out the obvious.
If you look at the cats white neck collar if you made it a light Grey and increased the dark values on the cat it would look more white and then erased small areas for high light’s it would become more 3 dimensional, also you have a slight drop shadow under the collar edges, on the fur, but none yet under his chin on the collar, which would bring its face forward giving more depth. Smudging with your finger or a smudging stick gives a nice subtle soft shading.
Kittys left side looks very natural and soft, the darker shadow lines on the right side are harder edged in some areas, if you brought some lighter greys through those dark areas it would help. Photos are not good for art they distort the shading so I may not be seeing it correctly. When I paint fur I will use 3 or 4 shades and layer them over each other, then depending on my substrate erase or scratch in highlights.
I have a couple of good you tube vids bookmarked on the my PC, I will dig them out, although it’s airbrushing the same principles can be applied to pencils.