Finishing the Raven

 This stitched up very quickly.

The reason is the choice of material for the base. There is no need to completely fill the features and the analogous colours add the highlight. It also makes stitching the feathers very easy.  All the final work can be done on the background.

And after cutting him out roughly, I used the remainder of the material as a branch.

I need to look at this for a while before I commit to using this material and this position.