A yellow-crested cockatiel sits in profile against a soft blue-gray ground, its distinctive pointed plumage rendered in warm golden tones while its body displays layered gray and charcoal feathers. The illustration uses clean, geometric shapes and a restrained palette to capture the bird's characteristic posture and alert expression with gentle humor. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.