Quality concept. I say the colors work as is. If anything, I'd make the brown a bit more solid, as I don't understand why you'd have solid leaves but a broken up trunk. It looks good, though, and is probably worthy of a sub. as is if you really like it.
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Somewhat I am lacking some contrast, or body on the Brown, wheras the leaves and the feather com out strong. You may try to texture the leaves with a transparent vain-structure (hope I spelled vain correct... huhu) to have some background blurr through there as wel. The look at the small picture tells what I mean.
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Cool idea!! I like this a lot but i think it would look even better if the design had a little more action in it. Right now it looks like it's about to land or take off. A flying dove shape would look better in my opinion, just google 'flying dove' for some good shapes, your concept is solid though and i also like the textured look. oooh and maybe have a few leaves trailing behind it.
I really like this design. In fact it is one of my favorites that I have looked at. I do think that the claw seems to be different somehow from the rest of the design. I don't know why it just does. Keep up the awesome
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jhouse