Some technique studies and playing around with different setting on Photoshop. Sometimes I grab whatever image that will inspire me, but there are times when I like studying animals. I love animals, so I never hesitate to learn more about them.

“Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore —
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." “ - The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe