Chasing Birds

It's been a massive couple of days: four illustrations, including two Spectator covers.  Here's the UK cover - the Australian one will run next week while I'm away.

And for the process hounds, the sketches (including an alternate thumbnail of the Twitter bird being cuffed)...

... and the finished art; drawn with good ol' brush and ink, coloured with crushed unicorns:

Thanks for looking!