Time's Up | DoodleDoodledayeo Round 19

It's another scavenger-hunt style prompt for DoodleDoodledayeo Round 19 so I'll be a bit elliptical in discussing my inspiration. My first thought was this guy from the cult classic Clash of the Titans:

I wasn't sure exactly what to do with that, though. I expanded out a bit to think about automatons and steampunk stuff more generally, and about how you'll sometimes hear the criticism of steampunk-inspired art that the actual mechanisms don't make a lot of functional sense – gears that don't connect, etc. And then I thought about having a character thoroughly embracing that idea, using these sorts of parts:

(animation of an escapement from Wikipedia)

to build something purely aesthetic. And why wouldn't the character need those parts anymore? That completed my inspiration: because they're trying to launch a new age where mechanical devices are replaced with biological entities (originally the creature in the middle of the clock was going to be a weirder blobby mutant but it started looking very froglike when I was drawing so I just went with it). They've built something to take the place of a cuckoo clock, and in a playful twist have built the bird out of mechanical bits. I wasn't satisfied that I had done enough to incorporate the first prompt-word in the thing the character had built out of parts, so I decided to have the character exhibit that property themselves as well by making them an anthropomorphic bird. The second prompt-word is incorporated both in the whole thing taking place on the face of a clock, and also in the idea that this marks the dawn of a new age, which I emphasized in the character's monolog.

Here's a scan of my pencil sketch:

Which I outlined and colored in Inkscape to produce my final doodle: