oh wow, thats amazing. The colors, and the detail in the feathers is amazing. They look so lifelike, with your own little touch of style in them. This is really great, nice job here!

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As the servant (don't dare say "owner") of a macaw, I can vouch for the fact that you got their personality correct - except that they also let you know they are in fact the center of the universe. Beautiful work! The poses and movements are captured perfectly, as well as the feathers, eyes, facial expressions... the combination of beauty and clownishness of a big macaw.

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I wish there was a 'love deviation' for this picture.. because I definitely love this!! Parrots are spectacular birds. I own a Green-Cheeked Conure and a very loud Jenday myself. Well.. it's more like Rayfan said.. they own me really. Heh ^_^

The texture on the feathers is wonderful, truly vibrant and very three-dimensional.. can see the layers of the feathers quite clearly.. look so ruffled up with all the preening that's going on. You have efficiently created a gloss on all those feathers too... looks great! ^_^ Truly a wonderful trio of troublemakers! +Fav!!

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*cough* I thought this was a photo at first.

It's just that. damn. good.

I don't own a macaw. I wish I did. Meh.

Still, very, very lovely pic. It's drool-a-licious.

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you really did get some awsome detail in there.
something that i find unique about your photo-realism stuff, is that it captures not only detail, but personality and life. better to have a painting with minor imperfections, but with lots of character, than rigid perfection sans the character.
much excelence

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amazing, looks like you have no problems with feathers at all, you nailed them perfectly in this piece!

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oh my goodness, that's amazing...

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I am not cursed/blessed with macaws, but my family does have two cockatiels who are likely less trouble than macaws (while still being firmly in the 'parrot' family, I'm assuming that macaws could not possibly be too awful much worse than them). I'd rather have a dog than a bird of any sort. And I'm not much of a dog person. ;p Enough of my muttering about birds... It's four am and my goal is to go, "I know a leeetle about birds..."

I very much love the feather-work. The only thing that makes me sit and go "huh" is the "neck" feathers of the two on the left. It looks more like clumps of fur than clumps of feathers. Which isn't to say that it's not still an impressive piece, but some of the feathers seem to "cup" up rather than down and clump together more like fur would than feathers. It could just be my eyes/the compression when you resized it, I guess. The feathers elsewhere (particularly the tails of the first two and the, er.. 'butt' of the third) are gorgeous. The.. mm.. color layering? merging? shading? shifting? (I'm not sure the correct word to use here) is fantastic!

Over and all, I'm incredibly impressed with the piece and I'd like to see you (hee) perhaps revisit that one painting you did of a woman riding a giant macaw (perhaps from a different 'angle' - like a man, or a more 'acrobatic' flight or even a macaw vs macaw battle complete with riders with lances - I dunno). Mm very long comment. My only excuse is I like it and I'm tired and my brain is addlepated from spending virtually every waking moment of today reading that new Harry Potter book. I'm still assimulating.

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Wow! Just Wow! We need more natural talent on DA like this. Beautiful beautiful work!

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