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Edit: touched up eyes based on feedback

This deviation is the result of one of *Grondhammar 's suggestions in response to my desperate plea for help. ([link] ) His first thought was to create custom pencil erasers. I really had no direction to take with it, but as soon as I had the idea of using birds as erasers, I loved the thought of having a shot of real birds in the background. I'm a sucker for a quirky twist that makes you look twice at something...so here's the result.

I really, REALLY appreciate the suggestion because this is definitely not something I would think to do on my own. But his ideas are a photomanipulating dream, so I plan to do at least one of his other ideas, too. Not to mention that having to create something based on someone else's concept is great practice.

I have to admit, this was a challenging task because I wanted to get the birds to look "fake" like erasers, but without losing too many details and looking too sketchy compared to the pencils. And because I ended up doing this strictly on my home machine, Photoshop 6 was killing me!! As compared to CS 2 on my work machine, the blur, burn, and other tools on version 6 are virtually worthless! So...I'm sure I could have gotten a better result with the newer program, but...

What do you think?

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References:

Sky: [link] by =3DLadyinStocks
Geese: [link]
Pencils: [link] by ~sophia-T

Erasers
Colorful bird: [link]
Toucan: [link]
Lorikeet: [link]
Finch: [link]

Description
Edit: touched up eyes based on feedback

This deviation is the result of one of *Grondhammar 's suggestions in response to my desperate plea for help. ([link] ) His first thought was to create custom pencil erasers. I really had no direction to take with it, but as soon as I had the idea of using birds as erasers, I loved the thought of having a shot of real birds in the background. I'm a sucker for a quirky twist that makes you look twice at something...so here's the result.

I really, REALLY appreciate the suggestion because this is definitely not something I would think to do on my own. But his ideas are a photomanipulating dream, so I plan to do at least one of his other ideas, too. Not to mention that having to create something based on someone else's concept is great practice.

I have to admit, this was a challenging task because I wanted to get the birds to look "fake" like erasers, but without losing too many details and looking too sketchy compared to the pencils. And because I ended up doing this strictly on my home machine, Photoshop 6 was killing me!! As compared to CS 2 on my work machine, the blur, burn, and other tools on version 6 are virtually worthless! So...I'm sure I could have gotten a better result with the newer program, but...

What do you think?

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References:

Sky: [link] by =3DLadyinStocks
Geese: [link]
Pencils: [link] by ~sophia-T

Erasers
Colorful bird: [link]
Toucan: [link]
Lorikeet: [link]
Finch: [link]