Finchwing Draws: Green Macaw - Traditional speedpaint with Soft Pastels

The picture on DeviantART: http://finchwing.deviantart.com/art/G...

Throughout the duration of this video, there are black-outs at 0:19, 2:05, 4:28 and 5:14. I have no idea how they got there, but they only last for about a second. Please ignore them!

This is my second attempt at a traditional speedpaint, the first being a test run with a 15 minute drawing. Overall, I'm quite happy with how it turned out! I suffered a few issues along the way, but that's expected with anything new. As mentioned, there are a few black-outs of which I have no idea how they got there, but hey. Trial and error, right?

Anyway, I hope you enjoy! Sorry about all the birds recently, it's just that I have to draw birds for my college project, so this way Ii'm killing two birds with one stone. HA. Get it? Two birds one stone? Cause I'm drawing a bird? Haha... No-one's laughing? Well okay.

I used a HB pencil to do the outline sketch and Faber-Castell soft pastels to colour.
I used a Panasonic HC-V210 camcorder to record. (Christmas present. Happy late Christmas by the way!)
I used Sony Vegas 11 to speed up and edit the video.

Reference by the lovely Tambako the Jaguar on Flickr :D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/

If you're interested as to how I set up my camera to record this, I simply placed it face down on a sheet of clear plastic/glass which was held off the ground by books and games. So professional :'D