Lost

I got the idea for this weeks Illustration Friday topic from something that happened a few years ago.

I was living in Tampa, Florida at the time and one morning on my way to class at University, I noticed a bright pink Flamingo flying around over-head. It struck me as odd that one solitary flamingo would be flying around, considering they are flocking birds. It also struck me as odd that he was so very pink. I've seen wild flamingo's and not very many are as shocking pink as ones you'd see in a zoo.

I never heard anything again about the flamingo, either on television or the interweb.

It was altogether quite odd....

[I started working on this one at a really large size (7.5"x17") so the thumbnail view may look a bit crap]



Here's the original ink drawing I started off with...