The goal of this bust was to create an older woman mixed with the feather structure of an Archaeopteryx raptor.

She is meant to be in her 60's so I wanted her skin to have a slightly more 'damaged' look due to photo-aging along the wrinkles on her more expressive bits, such as her smirk, while still maintaining a slightly mischevious appearance in tune with her sassy personality.

Since Archaeopteryx were perhaps the most feathered raptors and even bird-looking, I wanted her to be heavily feathered on top of her head to make significance of her status within her people as a High Priestess.

The initial sketch of the image above.