For the birds, I toyed with stereotypes and tried to imagine what it would be like if the peacock was a pompous refined "gentleman" while the jay was a sort of middle-man wanna-be whom tried to copy the peacock, right down to the dress. I tried making the Jay a little fatter (with quite a bit of chin) and even included some bird "stubble" for effect.
For the 2nd drawing our teacher asked us to imagine what their homes would be like. I figured the jay would probably live in a very round, cute house made with materials that he might have found in the forest, and so for the first drawing I gave him a birch-bark porch and a roof made of twigs. I added some lamps that were actually flowers with fireflies in them.
The 2nd concept derived more from the birch bark idea, and so I made from a base bird's nest a lotus/flower shaped house made purely from bark. I figured he'd want something soft to sleep on and so added flower petals and downy feathers. On his front "door" he has two peacock feathers, the symbol of his false pride. I liked my lamp idea from before and tried to embellish it again in the 2nd drawing, this time adding acorns with water inside as pots.
The 3rd drawing didn't get very far, but the basic idea was that the Jay's entire house was made of peacock feathers that he found.
Once I finish the peacock house drawings I'll post 'em up.
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