scratchboard

I was sick today and had to stay home from school, was shit bored so i slept all day until about 2pm sometime and woke up to a loud noise outside my window. i went outside and saw a large white cocky low down in a tea-tree in my yard. i ran inside and got some paper and a pencil and sketched him (camera is fucked so i wouldnt even bother with that) and he put up his crest for me for a few seconds. i managed to get a basic outline until he flew away which looked like his mate. i actually liked the sketch so i transferred it onto some scratchboard and carved it in a couple of hours having it result in this.

i think the beak is unproportioned and the crest too small but i like it anyways, a big change from copying photograpths and drawing from my head, havent done observational drawing in a while, exspecially with live models

no hardcore critic, this is a play around job, nothing i really put effort in to earn critique and i think i know where i go wrong. thank you