Slowly tentatively venturing into colouring things in a more painterly style. How do you get that sort of effect without things turning instantly into mud. Anyway.

So yeah this is based off this post http://wittyandcharming.tumblr.com/post/54966370803/these-parent-birds-are-so-beautiful-like-birdy:

An albatross family photo, featuring two fabulous androgynous parents (in coordinating knitware!) and their darling cottonball muppetchild. The background is meant to be one of those blotchy blinds used for school photos and cheesy portraits but I don’t know how well that comes across.