Being 14, I'm nowhere near professional. But I consider myself a decent artist. I like to draw from pictures (either John James Audubon's paintings or actutal pictures I may find in Nat. Geo magazines). I've drawn J.J Audubon's painting of Carolina Parakeets, a headshot and a sketch of a lesser-prairie chicken from Audubon magazine, and a fox with an egg in its mouth from Nat. Geo.
I would love to have a drawing tablet, and I'm jealous of everybody who does.
Your drawings are very nice, Papaya, I love the songbird (is it a bunting?) and the phoenix. I draw phoenixes too, but they're a bit more stylized. Do you use charcoal?
Oh! And I almost forgot, I do pixel art as well as simple frame-by-frame animation. I have a animation of a golden eagle
here I made for something. Made on a laptop with Paint, I think I did quite well.
I have yet to draw Peanut, I'm still practicing bird wings. How complex they are!