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birds!

Added 2025-03-01 09:06:33 +0000 UTC

I got the idea for this drawing from goyagoat's adorable drawings of her merlin app recordings, mixed with some inspiration from mystery of the missing migrants by charley harper which I have a postcard of on my wall! these are all birds I've picked up on the merlin app myself on our walks- including the eurasian wren, goldfinch, great tit, bullfinch, long tailed tit, magpie, song thrush, starling, and buzzard in the back. the sizes are rough from memory, but part of what compelled me to finish this is the size difference between the buzzard and the songbirds- the buzzard felt like a huge aircraft to me while I drew this.

I pecked at this for weeksss but I'm really enjoying using this brush with color jitter- next I want to work on a pikmin fanart idea I've had for actual years and have been too intimidated to start, but will be really fun to make in this style I think! I'll be putting this bird drawing on inprnt soon with the lion drawing and some older stuff and hopefully that pikmin fanart later too!