Media Arts Extra: Pink Trees and Blue Macaw

Just an extra coloring warm-up that I have completed. I liked multiple different styles of the image and have posted them all below. The original lined art for this piece can be found here

Here is the basic Macaw image that I finished. I added all the flat colors to the image, although for the bird wings I had used the gradient tool to make the colors fade into one another. Every surface on the bird had a gradient tool involved, with the tail and wings having a slight gold bordering over it. For the background I didn't use gradient and instead used flat colors, and then continued to go over with the burn and dodge tools respectively. Finally, I added in a grainy filter to the piece so that it looks the way it does now.

I had made another version of it as well, repeating the process above, and instead adding a plastic wrap filter to it.This way you could see the affects I applied to each of the bird layer, making it pop.

 Poster edge style image. It simplified all colors and deleted the more complex areas of the gradient but still managed to make the picture look good. So these, in conclusion were the three different styles I added to the picture after I finished coloring it.