Blue Hydrangeas

"Roses are red, hydrangeas are blue, when you're dead to the world, may the little bird from paradise forever watch over you! " - iskarlata

After almost 2 month of delays, it's finally there! The magazine with this cover
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I had hard times getting an idea because most of the previous covers were highly fantasy related featuring female characters, and the cover layout is heavily steampunk themed, but I decided to go with my "business card" which is bird art, and add something more vintage, thus the skull The bird was actually re-used I started a bee-eaters piece some time ago but couldn't find any motivation to go on, so I got one of them to this piece cause the pose fits perfectly, and recolored for blue-headed bee-eater (but I forgot to recolor his white throat ).

Anyway, I wanted them to be surrounded with many different types of flowers, very colorful place, and when I get into doing flowers, I started with blue hydrangea and it literally took me A WEEK to make this one flower I was so pissed off I couldn't look on it anymore xD So I decided to go with hydrangeas only, but I think it was a great idea because it already is a bit of.. clutter? Which I really love actually ;D I also have chosen blue hydrangeas because these are favorite flowers of one of my old friends who I really, really miss. And the flower's color fits lovely the details of the bird.. for me every piece fits together


Click here for Step-by-step (it's a bit messy, because sometimes I forgot to take screenshots, so treat it more like a curiosity)

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