don’t know your subject very well, feeling free to use reference is especially important, of course.
​​now if you honestly like working from your imagination, there’s nothing wrong with that and i might even make a video about why i think working from your imagination can be good sometimes.
​i’m just saying, i don’t anyone to feel that they have to work only from their imagination or they’re not a real artist or something ridiculous like that.
much of the process of painting this parrot is similar to that of painting the same bird in "hey over there" so refer to the post about that bird, linked here.
​some differences though, are in the 