I keep tweaking some things bit by bit to see what i like the most
@nevs38 thanks!
well, those dark things u've seen around feathers were just rough sketchup for myself to define where each of them starts and ends.
To my taste I wouldn't add so much vibrance to this picture.
I obviously haven't done anything much about light situation and reflected light (shadows and occlusion as well) yet as i usually build everything up slowly as i go.
and yes, once i will be finished with the illustration i merge all the layers and only then i tweak colour, hue, vibrancy. (Simply by going to image>adjustments>levels/or vibrance/or huesat/ etc/) As i find it works better for me most of the time rather than layers with different properties
@anilduyalbaydir thanks! yes, i was going to work on feet and hands and everything. (just gimme some time haha :D)