Boulevard of broken Dreams

The Title was inspired by Green Day , as their song got through my mind while making this picture ;)
By rotating the picture , it starts looking like the bird is walking, next thing I did was using the patch tool, clone stamp etc. to remove the bird in the little aviary and the aviary's roof to let it look like a flat street/way/ whatever.
Last steps were all about the pictures atmosphere: lowered saturation, higher contrast,use of rainbrushes (by Faeth_design), varying layerstyles and so on ..
I think this pic has a pretty depressing mood, which was my aim (yes, the bird just found out that his partner had an affair ;) )
I decided to not darken out the eye (as you often see it in anime for example)

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submitted: 207 days ago

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