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The most recent compilation of bird doodle commissions done over the past few weeks, including ones done in my recent advertisment to help with bills! If you're someone who reblogged my original post or if one of your birds are here, I want to take this moment to say THANK YOU, SO MUCH. January is such a hard month money-wise for everyone, something I always forget until it rolls around - everyone's kindness and generosity has been overwhelming. I was able to cover my bills and draw (and learn about) some wonderful bird suggestions. Thank you. <3 I'm still open for these, but on a much more casual basis where I'm not desparate for help with bills, if you would like a bird doodle for yourself or someone else hit me up!
I made this comic for the literature festival ‘Québec en toutes lettres'. If you are in la ville de Québec, I believe you can find this comic displayed on a large panel or as a free postcard in these cute vending machines they’ve set up around the downtown. I don’t actually have proof of either, so if you are in Québec and you see my comic in the wild, please send me a photo!
The theme of this year’s festival is ‘climbing the light’ based on a line of poetry from Jean-Paul Daoust. My comic is a pretty abstract take on that. I was thinking about how great art can inspire people all over the world to create art, and how that art can then inspire future artists and so on, making this unending giving-and-receiving of light through our history. I was also thinking about birds (as I do sometimes), and how they do a similar thing with their songs.
The bird I’ve painted here is an Eastern Whip-poor-will, a night singer.
"Soon my love we will join the others under the museum lights, but for now, under the starlight, you are glowing"
The last Passenger Pigeon and last Carolina Parakeet on earth both died at the Cincinnati zoo in the early 1900s.
Since the Canada griffin was proudly mentioned recently I figure it can’t hurt to ask if you do happen to have plans to design Canada griffin goslings at some point in the future? (muse permitting)
I DO NOW.
I present to you
honklings
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’”
My personal favorite example: Opal-crowned Manakin :D (photo by Luis Morais on eBird)
The feathers on its head are among the most reflective substances found in nature. Their reflective index is higher than artificial mirrors. It looks white on most photos because cameras can't even capture how brilliantly iridescent they look in person.
birds have truly mastered feathers like what do you Mean they can be shiny. how fucking cool is that
do you want to see a random species of bird
