“The vagabond” was inspired in a song with the same name of a cuban singer, Silvio Rodríguez. The intention was to make something evocative that catch the poetry of that song. I was not trying to made some hyperrealistic image, that’s why the bird or the human has their proportions a little altered: bigger bird eyes or human hands, short bird tail, etc...
It was made with photoshop, with the help of Corel Draw for the flat background scheme, Infini-D for modeling the helmet and Bryce to render it (I know it is primitive but is everything I needed for it). The textures in the astronaut clothes where made combining real distorted photographic textures with photoshop painting tools.

This image was published in "D'artiste Concept Art" book:
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste/concept_art/