hope is the thing with feathers

today I was fussing around in illustrator, learning more stuff. yay! well, I learn by copying other artists, since I don't have much of a style of my own yet. ANYWAY, today I copied a really really talented illustrator who goes by 'Ben the Illustrator'. I am looking to copy more from him because OMG HIS STYLE. I want to roll around in it and stuff.

his site is here: http://www.bentheillustrator.com/ AND he has a tumblr: http://bentheillustrator.tumblr.com

so anyway, today I was blatantly copying ben the illustrator in order to learn some line work, and I came up with this:

( 650x400 header, non fannish! )

it is blatantly copied from this illustration by ben.

I actually kinda like my own better? the colors are slightly different (I like ben's orange better) but I like my birds more. :D

anyone who wants the banner can snag it. the complementary colors are here at colourlovers if you want to tweak your layout to match! :D

You can make this! Just follow the tut which is under the ( cut )