Hi friends!

It was be my old sketch too.
One time I looked in Internet this photo of bird called "Paradise Bird".
It inspired me to create this picture with tropical landscape, a palms and amazing flowers.

Starting sketch (with Paint Tool SAI 2 too)

I made it, but forgot about it, being distracted by new, more urgent projects

After a while, I still decided to return to the sketch and finish drawing it.

In first step I made a correction of bird's base form with my favorite brushes Oil Brist 2

Then I drew a plan with Pencil where will be a back landscape and foreground (on new layer).

At the same time, I created the base for the beautiful shiny feathers on the bird's chest.

Drawing colorful evening sky and a palms on a background.
As well as the reflection of feathers on a chest of the bird.

I paint the texture of the legs with  Ink Pen

Now I decorate the foreground with a variety of tropical flowers.
I don't know what flowers grow in the tropics, I just fantasize, inventing fantastic shapes - after all, this is an unreal landscape!
At the same step, I add waves near the coast, drop shadows from palm trees and reflections of the sunset in their crowns.

All I have to do is detail the flowers and add another fantastic instance to the bottom left corner.
I also thought that I needed to make the coast more textured (this is a simple action - a texture like Noise or Skin as this is assigned to a regular brush)

And finally color correction for colorful view of warm tropical evening.
Than not a heavenly place?

Have a nice and creative day!

Regards

Cross-post from Whaleshares and Hive