@Kigerneko: Thank you, I am glad to be participating again.
@Kreyhardt: I will start as soon as possible, which is probably somewhere next week, since I took some days off for the holidays.
For now, here is my inspiration:
(Birds of prey.)
(Birds of paradise.)
(Toothiana concept art from rise of the guardians.)

(Harpy.)
Some more brainstorming.
I addded my personal information to the first topic, so I am now elligible.
Also, I settled on a name, though it is still subject to change...
With help of the trusty fantasy name generator I found a couple of names I like.
In no particular order:
- Endeis
- Vestele
- Lyra
- Airya
- Veryre
They are a warrior from a humanoid birdlike race.
I will mix features from birds of prey and birds of paradise and perhaps some other animals.
The design will be elegant, but the character will be bulky and tank-like.
I might think about doing some sort of armour, but I might like the character without clothes, so I will have to experiment.
@Steve_Kim Thank you!
@ajramsey Cool! I love harpies! The way this design is going this is going to be a harpy too.
@sanguine Thanks! I love birds as well.
New sketches. I pretty much settled on the base anatomy, so I tried drawing out some details.
(Also, I kind of drew this in reverse. I started with the base anatomy on the left, but then I drew from the far right to the middle.)
@Steve_Kim Will do. Right now, I'm still experimenting. First I'll try out some other birds and see what I like. I will probably end up mixing and matching.
Also, I just noticed the colours are way more saturated here than they are supposed to. (I realised, I saved the file as cymk, that's why the colours are all wonky. Oops.)
Here is how it is supposed to look:
The colours are still bright, but not as straining to the eye.
10 days later
@Kreyhardt Thank you. I think so too. However, I still have a bunch more iterations.
More tropical birds, with more muted colour schemes this time:
9 days later
Whelp, I seem to have misplaced my tablet pen. Usually I find it within a couple of days, but it's been more than a week now and I am pretty sure I looked everywhere.
So I don't think I will be able to finish this piece on time...
I've been looking into replacing it, but a new pen would cost than my crappy old tablet is even worth anymore, so I might as well get a new tablet. So yeah, I'll be doing that.
I will be returning to this piece later. I could do some basic sketches and thumbnails traditionally in the meantime.
@moirae
Thank you. The red breast seems like I good idea. Sadly I didn't get to try it out.