Crow sketches/design considerations

Just some more crow sketches to familiarise myself with the physiology of the crow — looking at the head from various angles and such :] 

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I saw this really lovely photo of a crow and the eyes are very striking — I wanted to play around with the way I drew the eyes to try and make them a little more 'crow like.' What do you guys think of the blue? 

That weird little cartoon character on the side there is 'Drinky Crow,' a character from a rather obscure cartoon from 2007 about a crow who... drank. A lot. That was about it. Anyway, I quite liked how his eyes looked so thought I might try and emulate is, but I'm not too sure how it would work on our crow. Might play around with it a bit more.

More general sort of body sketches to try and figure out the placement of wings and such. I looked at the way a couple of other artists drew crows to get an idea as to how the body could be simplified.

Crow colour palettes

Hello chaps! Just done a few colour schemes for our little friend and thought I'd put them up so you can have a look and tell me what you think :]

Was working mainly with the thought of blue/purple colour scheme, something quite  subdued in contrast to the relatively colourful scarecrow. I originally started by making the beak darker than the body, but it makes the mouth quite difficult to see. Overall I just think that it's too dark.

Personally I'm not keen on the orange beak — looks more like a duck! Jazzy then suggested making the beak lighter than the body which I think actually works really nicely. You can see her mouth and it keeps her looking a little more cheerful I think.

The last 3 (not counting disco crow) are probably my favourites so far. I was poking around on Google and a saw a few drawings where the crow's beak was more blue-ish in hue, so I tried it out and came up with 9 and 10 — 11, again, was inspired from another drawing where the crow was a brighter sort of purple with a brown beak and it looked really nice. So I stole BORROWED the idea. ;D

Personally, I think my favourites so far are 4, 8 and 10. What do you guys think? Any suggestions? :]

Edit: Agh! These look so much diffierent on my laptop screen. They're way brighter than I thought they would be - they looked super dark on the monitor in G01. Gotta try and fix that to keep them consistent across all monitors!