Peacock-pheasant - Blog Posts

海南孔雀雉 Hainan peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron katsumatae). The species is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

This is a boy who has lost his family.

At first I wanted to draw both female bird and male bird (they probably look different…🤔), but unfortunately I couldn't find photographs of the female bird. There are few photos of the species on the Internet, which is probably a bad news. I do know 徐 has drawn amazing illustrations of Hainan peacock-pheasants. I've only seen the female Hainan peacock-pheasant from one of their science illustrations, but looking at one image won't be enough for me to draw a proper illustration. So in the end I only draw the male bird.

It was not very easy for me to draw the character, and I didn't feel well that day. I was too tired to draw the lustre (probably green) of the eye-shaped patterns. 😩😩😩

Patterns of the actual bird don't look exactly like this. Parts of the eye-shaped patterns will usually be hidden by feathers. When the male bird displays his feathers, I guess most of the "eyes" can be seen. I didn't really care about space or depth or the relation of feathers when I drew, because of the style (I didn't even draw the feathers of his body or his mouth). 😂😂😂I didn't mention this on Instagram, but said this on Weibo, since my text looks too freaking long on Instagram, and I was tired, and people can search for the species on the Internet (probably not easy) and then see the species's appearance anyway.

Grey peacock-pheasant looks similar to this species, but their facial colours are really different. I notice that lots of people mistake grey peacock-pheasants (yellow face) as Hainan peacock-pheasants (red face). 🤔My art is at least pretty accurate in some ways.

It took me about 5 hours and 47 minutes to draw the picture (including adding watermarks and the species's name).

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