I tried to give the bill some lines to reflect the structure of an emerald, also some of the feathers have green undertones and slight shape of the structure. It would've been fun if I gave the other colors on the beak structure too so it's like different gems on the beak.

I used colorpencil for the yellows and brown. and markers for the reds and blue. The feathers/ body I colored first with green color pencil and layered it with black marker and colored greens in more so they popped out against the black.

I wanted to diamonds with colors and I thought it would go well with a hummingbird's iridescent feathers. So I thought of a hummingbird with colored diamonds feathers.

I used colorpencils and lined it with a Micron 03 pen. I also had to edit the background since the picture from the page behind it was bleeding into the background.

I tried to play with the feather to give them a solid structure to reflect the structure of Aquamarines. I used stabilo pens to outline the dove and later colored it in with colorpencils.

WIP for amethyst. An American Krestel hatching from an amethyst geode.