Day of the Dead

I have this idea of trying to do a day of the dead digital painting that involves crows. I want them to be painted up as if they were skeletons. I imagine them perched on a tombstone of some sorts waiting to carry the souls of the dead. I want them to have a necklace of a glowing heart around their necks, symbolizing the persons soul that they are carrying. In the next few days i need to find some bird anatomy reference. As you can clearly see mine is far from the real construction. The Crow is one of my favorite movies, and i have always loved the idea of a crow carrying the soul of person to the land of the dead. Hopefully I will follow through with this idea.