This was a pure post production retouching job. Using various stock photos of birds and human bodies, the challenge was to morph them together while humanising the expressions. 

Large areas of the birds faces were reworked or completely re-illustrated by hand. Painting individual feathers and thousands of micro hairs was a painstaking job but it contributed to the final result. Happy and fun images, we see ourselves in the blue owl with the 80’s shades…  Bodacious!