Taeniopygia guttata

So, second try to upload it correctly..

A 'speed'-Painting I did yesterday&today from a reference (speed in my terms, it took me about 3 or 4 hours which is about a fourth of how long It would have taken me before, so I regard this as a progress).
I radically changed my drawing methods (no fiddling with outlines anymore for me!) and found out that it is a good idea to learn how things look like in real before trying to start to draw things from imagination. I apologize for the ugly background, but I want to draw "step by step" and not "trying everything at once", which results in nothing but frustration.

I hope you like it - comments and crits are welcome.