The overall Idea of my work was to accurately show the masked duck and capture it in its natural marshy habitat. And to show the visual difference between a maile (bottom left) and a female (top right) masked duck. I started with a light sketch just getting down the basic shapes of the ducks. After I got the basic shapes down I started to develop the shape of the ducks more and add more detail. Once that was done I put a light thin layer of watercolor so there was no blank white space. After that, I started with the colored pencil adding detail and color. First, before I started with the drawing, I researched masked ducks and found a few reference photos to base my drawing off of but not directly the same.