Finished the drake image. Ahhhh, deadline =X The background on this is very cheap, as I needed to finish this quickishly: An overlay layer of some of hibbary's lovely tea-stain textures + bunch of airbrush work.
I started his markings by basing him off a Picasso Trigger Fish... but with the orange on his beak and the complex patterning on his sides, he ended up looking rather silly. I simplified it and put a made-up pattern on his wings that drew from the deep orange stripe on the back of the fish. Sadly he no longer resembles the original fish
If you're curious, you can see the various stages of progress in this forum topic.