S is for Sandhill Crane

I really enjoyed trying to get the feather textures on this fantastic creature.

We begin with a sketch. I was fairly detailed since I wanted to really focus on the inking.

Now to Inking!
andhill Cranes have red on their face and so I left that part blank planning to do it with a red pen later.

Doing feathers is fun. Some didn't turn out as nice as I'd like but others I'm really happy with.

I finished up the wings, added the grass it is dancing in.

The last stage is to erase the pencil and add the red.

thanks for reading!