Comment 62396

The eclectus is perfectly accurate; male Red-Sided Eclectus are that brilliant emerald green, bright blue on the 'shoulders' which are actually the 'thumbs' and 'wrists' when the wings are open, ruby red on the sides underneath the wings and on the 'arm' part of the underside of the wings, sapphire blue on the flight feathers and tail, a little yellow on the tail, the reddish-brown eyes, bright orange upper mandible and black lower mandible. The females are on a completely different color spectrum. The females are predominantly red and blue with bits of yellow on the tail. The females beaks are all black, too, upper and lower mandibles. It's shocking to see a male and female Red-Sided Eclectus sitting side-by-side because your first thought is they might be completely different species, but no. Male and female of the SAME species. It's a 'holy crap' moment, lol.

She is wearing eyeshadow; orange and green, XD. She is fair complected, but she also tans in the summer, unlike me and I'm also fair complected. Her hair color is my hair color, as well...but I don't tan in summer. I burn...horribly, lol. But seeing as this is just a color test with flat base colors and simple shading and highlighting, the finished image will have more depth and a background. I submitted the color test for critiques and help on selecting some colors. Her hair color, eye color and skin tone are set, but I wasn't sure what to do about everything else--exluding Dakota the parrot, he's perfect. I don't know how to color her shirt, nails or makeup. I may give the jacket details when I ink it so I can give the jacket depth rather than the flat black, but I don't know. Anymore help would be very much appreciated! !!