Pictograms?

It was time for me to present something in class so I thought I would give a crack at doing some “pictograms” of my chosen birds. So I attempted these:

From my understanding of picograms, I had to create icon like interpretations of my chosen animals. But from the feedback that I received at first I was confused at what I was doing wrong and then I realised from much explaining what the brief was actually asking me to do which was more to simplify and create a system to recognise the animals rather than a logo type assignment,

From the feedback that I got I also picked up quite a few things, how inconsistent the icons that I created were even though I was following a ’rounded’ system. For example, the positions of my birds were different; the kiwi and peacock were facing the side whereas the penguin was profiled and looking straight. My scales for the birds were off which meant that my proportions were too when the birds were lined up next to each other as the penguin should have been larger than the kiwi and the peacock the largest.

From this I decided to change the peacock as I felt it just was not working for me in terms of size and proportions anymore and I wanted to create a deeper link for my animals. Since my approach to the pictograms was incorrect anyways, it was not too late to change my animals as I was to follow the proper procedure anyways. So I decided to change my birds and make them all NZ birds; the kiwi, penguin and the Kea. I thought the Kea would work well in terms of size and would be a unique addition to the other two.