26 days ago I concluded a NFT competition to help me choose my first NFT. It was great fun and one of the result summaries looked like this

Out if this came a very interesting offer by  to commission an art piece off the results (

Now this was hard normally I just start drawing and go from there, not have a end point in mind. Also I really wanted to stick to the brief as close as possible.

So the first thing I saw was a really weird bird and I could not get it out of my head. So looks like we are drawing a bird! Also I want to tie this back into hive so lets say its droping of HIVE and off we go!

Ok so I used the lines as a guide and started blocking in some colors

Then I then removed the guide and started working working working. The beak had to be huge, the wing sit odd but we did get there!

Here it is with the guide

And the final image, it was a bit flat so i tried to outline a bit and add some clouds