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Harkthorn
@harkthorn.bsky.social
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Does art, likes birds | Daily sketches | Parrots and Pigeons | NoGеnAߊ

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · Sep 1
✨Reintroduction post!

I'm Harkthorn, and I like to draw mostly fantasy and wildlife art-especially griffons, dragons, birds, and big cats. I also post a lot of bird photos-both of my three parrots, and of the pigeon flock that visits my window, especially Coopuccino (shown here with his mate)

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A realistic drawing of a Blue-throated conure griffon on a branch with leaves in the top right and bottom left of the image. The griffon has one forepaw raised and a pinned eye, looking at the viewer A green ballpoint pen sketch of a running wingless griffon, based on a grey heron, with a more dog-like back half A photo of two feral pigeons on a window sill, without the glass in the way. The front pigeon is a pied black male. The back pigeon is a spread/back female with feathered legs and feet A photo of a Blue-throated conure on a wooden desk perch stand thing. He is facing the viewer, but has put his head down, and turned it sideways a bit so his eye is viewable, and most of his beak. He is looking, with half-closed eye. He wants pets!
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Red river hog sketch. I enjoyed drawing the warthog the other day despite how difficult it was (for me personally), so tried something similar for this page

-3231 🎨🐡 #art
A black ballpoint sketch of a red river hog, standing, facing to the left of the image, slightly turned towards the viewer
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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harkthorn.bsky.social
Yesterday's delayed sketch upload-a page of draped/flowing fabric studies, in ballpoint

-3230 🎨 #art
A sketchbook page with seven black ballpoint pen drawings, of different kind of clothes that all have drapes and folds and flow downwards
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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szynkawieprzowa.bsky.social
WARSTWY TOŻSAMOŚCI 🦅 LAYERS OF IDENTITY

Something for our independence day; a bit of a reflection on the freedom of expression of one's identity through the lens of their culture.

#art #digitalart #polishart #bird #birds
A digital drawing of a kestrel in flight. Its beak is open and its neck, tail and primaries on its left wing (and one secondary) are colorful with ripples resembling shapes found in Polish paper cutting. Its eye is red and white. The drawing is mainly in darker tones.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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sunoftiberian.bsky.social
Wife brings fresh gross from village so they so happy. #bugsky #pet
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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justmercury.bsky.social
Melted Pigeon.

#pigeon #petpigeon #pet #petowner #bird
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Red river hog sketch. I enjoyed drawing the warthog the other day despite how difficult it was (for me personally), so tried something similar for this page

-3231 🎨🐡 #art
A black ballpoint sketch of a red river hog, standing, facing to the left of the image, slightly turned towards the viewer
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Yesterday's delayed sketch upload-a page of draped/flowing fabric studies, in ballpoint

-3230 🎨 #art
A sketchbook page with seven black ballpoint pen drawings, of different kind of clothes that all have drapes and folds and flow downwards
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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paleofabs.bsky.social
Pigeon.

#pigeon #bird #birdart #artist #digitalart #art
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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tkmv-studio.bsky.social
So I decided to watch a PBS documentary special on the hustle life of Pigeons. In truth, I never gave them much thought other than trying not to hit them with my car, but after watching the documentary, it changed my perspective on them.

#pigeons #pbs #digitalart #illustration #tkmv #tkmvstudio
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
No Coopuccino for the third day in a row now :(
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Today's Dopple

#pigeonSky 🪶
A close up portrait photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon, facing the viewer
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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freakyfruit-art.bsky.social
Hii! Today is my Birthday 🎂
And repost is the best gift for the artist 🖤
Also I would be very happy if someone can share with me a #VgenCode
#happybirthday #artistbday #art #horror
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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ghelfaire.bsky.social
Attack of the googly eyes #parrotsky #conure
Green plate with just the beak forehead and eyes of a green cheek conure grabbing the side visible
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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hallowcryptid.bsky.social
This adorable baby is Fritz—and she, along with her squishy wife, belongs to @TheMimiStar!

Another pigeon commission down, three more to go!

#pigeon #bird #pigeonksy #artwork #pet #animal #dove #commission
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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ottey-umbreon.bsky.social
「King Fisher? NO!
I'm Emperor Fisher!」

Birds✖Tarot Cards

#birds #art #illust #Illustration
#野鳥 #アナログ絵 #イラスト #タロットカード #再投稿
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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avian-aves.bsky.social
Beep check! He wants to make sure you’re not doom scrolling 🐥
Front view of a zebra finch on a perch. His head is turned to the right and tilted slightly upwards. Front view of a male zebra finch on a perch. He is leaning towards the camera, and his head is tilted to the left.
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Nab, through the window

#pigeonSky
A photo of the back of a blue bar feral pigeon with pearl eyes, head turned around to look at the viewer
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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punkrockstitcher.bsky.social
Huevember day 8! Still trying to understand lighting don’t @ me 😭 love the vibe and pose tho!
#digitalart #dragon
Digital drawing of blue-green dragon flying with its head angled up. There are rays of light coming down on its face and body
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ehehenohe.bsky.social
In This Country, White Creatures Are Revered As Messengers Of The Gods.
If She Dislikes This Heavy Responsibility, She Can Change Her Body Color To Green And Immediately Resign.
At The Certain Shrine, An East Japanese Tree Frog. 2025/11/08.
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Digital Art Program Journey

- MS Paint
- Photoshop 7
- Photoshop CS2
- openCanvas 7

Also had Clip Studio Paint, but got that on my laptop not long before it died and borrowing a worse one... never was able to get it or iPad fixed ($$)

I've always wanted to try drawing with Procreate+Apple Pencil!
micahseacole.bsky.social Micah Seacole @micahseacole.bsky.social · 1d
Digital Art Program Journey

Can Micah, known memory issue haver, remember all of these first try? No. Will I try? Also no.

- MS Paint
- Sketchbook (knock off/free)
- Autodesk Sketchbook
- Procreate (hated it)
- Gimp (hated it)
- Krita
- Procreate (love it)

I only use krita for coloring atm.
armaina.com Armaina @armaina.com · 1d
✏️Digital Art Program Journey✏️

Only listing the ones I used primarily, cus I used a lot...

Illustrations:
- Paint
- Photoshop 4
- Open Canvas 2
- Open Canvas 3
- Open Canvas 4
- Open Canvas 5
- Clip Studio Paint

Pixel Art:
- Paint Shop Pro
- Graphics Gale/Photoshop
- Aseprite
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
Forgot to take sketchbook photos today so there will be two pages tomorrow instead
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
harkthorn.bsky.social
There was lettuce on the window sill, and since I'm pretty sure the pigeons or crows didn't put it there, that leaves human. So the person who hates pigeons and has complained about them existing, is throwing (bio) trash at them. And it's the birds just sitting around that's the issue?
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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loopyyylupe.bsky.social
Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on
Its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine, in spite of its metallic glitter. The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this. People who have never seen these structures, and have only the ill-imagined efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye-witnesses as myself to go upon, scarcely realise that living quality. Illustration I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had evidently made a hasty study of one of the fighting-machines, and there his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here simply to warn the reader against the impression they may have created. They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being. To my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them. At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion. But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. With that realisation my interest shifted to those other creatures, the real Martians. Already I had had a transient impression of these, and the first nausea no longer obscured my observation. Moreover, I was concealed and motionless, and under no urgency of action. Warwick Goble's illustrations of the tripods. The are very stiff 2d silhouettes of water towers with tentacles coming out of the top
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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davidswann1.bsky.social
Kingfisher.
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM