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Eurasian jay feather! :D
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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huuuough this was hard. good challenge though!
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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New icon for October!
An anthropomorphic falcon made of blue slime. He has a visible skull and a stern expression.
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The budgie is done! 🪶
#art #sculpture #birds
A full-colour sculpture of a yellow and green budgerigar. It has a blue cere. The same budgie sculpture held on its side in my hand. The tail blends smoothly from green to blue. Top view of the budgie sculpture, showing the scalloped pattern on the wings and the barring on the back of the neck. The budgie sculpture viewed from the right hand side, sitting on a table with cracked and peeling paint. The cheek barring is less confidently painted than it is on the left side.
October 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Birb!!! And sometimes borb, because it's cute :D
An anthropomorphic falcon with hand-like wings soars against a roughly triangular slice of open sky. His feathers are blue and white, and he wears leather armour and a red bandana around his neck. A scrappy pencil sketch of a stylised blue falcon, coloured with alcohol markers. The wings double as hands. Simple, uncoloured sketches of the same anthro falcon, this time with a cute pudgy shape. A full reference sheet of the blue anthro falcon, showing him from the front and back in his leather armour and with a scarf. There are multiple blocks of text, as follows: FLETCH - Rito Adventurer - FtM Transgender - Kind of short (like Revali) - Based on a peregrine falcon - Studies monsters and ancient tech (both Sheikah and Zonai) Feel free to give him different hairstyles! (text accompanies two examples, side hair braided with green endcaps or loose with a green tie at the base) Top surgery scars are not optional. However, his hair and clothing can be changed. (accompanies smaller illustration without clothes) He has a Feathered Edge and Kite Shield, even though he's not a strong fighter. He found a Zonaite Bow during his travels, and he carries it around even though he lacks the strength to use it properly. He also carries a journal in which he both writes and draws his findings. Leg band examples with cross section (usually worn as a matched pair) (accompanied by two examples of leg band styles; on the left is a round, doughnut-shaped leg band carved from slightly cracked green stone, while the one on the right is triangular and metallic while also being triangular in cross-section. There are also dorsal and ventral views of his tail, showing that the blue base of the feathers is paler on the underside.
September 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Still chipping away at the budgie :>
A clay sculpture of a green and yellow budgerigar with a blue cere. The same budgie sculpture, shown from a slightly different head-on angle. Some of the paint on the cere is still wet.
September 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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my icy pole had a manufacturing error :(
A photo of ice cream on a stick that is half the length it should be, held next to the wrapper. The stick looks comically long by comparison.
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Today’s budgie progress today 🪶
A clay sculpture of a budgerigar resting on its back on the handle of a palette knife, roughly painted yellow and green. The green paint is still wet. A clay sculpture of a budgerigar painted yellow and green. A pleasing gradient is visible between the cheek and shoulder. The tail is still unpainted, as are the eyes and beak. The same budgie, with the tail painted blue and the head and wings lightened slightly. The same budgie with the underside painted much more solidly. The green blends smoothly to blue where the body meets the tail.
September 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Been working on a budgie :D
A white clay sculpture of a bird with a long tail. It has no face. A white clay sculpture of a budgerigar from the front. It now has soft cheeks and a beak, but no eyes. A white clay sculpture of a budgerigar shown from the front. It now has a more rounded cere and sculpted eyes. A white clay sculpture of a budgerigar from the side, showing the curve of the cheek feathers and the cere.
September 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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One or the other, take your pick if you like :>
Hope you find your groove again soon!
September 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Gourdie loaf…

Inspiration struck. I need to start referencing rain frogs.
A pencil sketch of a fat dragon loafing on the ground while looking in the viewer’s general direction. He has a curly beard and mane, small wings, and a big fat curly tail. Both his belly and tail are shaded to give the impression of shiny translucency.
August 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Ooh! Thanks for the opportunity! Here's my birb :D
July 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Yes, and this isn’t it. It’s somehow both sloppy and too clean at the same time.

Compare the struts on the bridge, and the odd marks on the arrow on the sign.

I doubt this is the original, since the text has been painted out and it’s kinda low res, but this is a real photo.
July 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Thanks for the opportunity! Here are my dudes :D
June 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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This one's really old... drew it in 2017. It counts though!

If you see this, post your green dragon art! 🐉
A long, green, noodly, wingless dragon based on a dragonhead caterpillar. It has four fringed horns, orange eyes, and four legs. It's sticking out its tongue, which is wide, flat, and forked.
May 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Getting more work done on the magpie! Should be ready for clear coat once I’ve painted over the pencil lines.
A smooth clay figurine of an Australian white-backed magpie. Its wings are closed flush against its body and it sits on top of a newspaper crossword puzzle. The same clay magpie, viewed from an almost front-on angle. The same clay magpie viewed from above and behind. Grey pencil sketch lines are visible on the unpainted white clay.
May 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Haven’t been posting much art here, but I do make stuff. Here are some birds I’m working on at the moment - they’re made from really light air dry clay over a core of aluminium foil, and painted with acrylics :>
A model of a pigeon sitting on newspaper. It’s partway through being painted like a common wildtype rock dove. The same pigeon sculpture, rotated to face left. An unpainted, in-progress sculpture of a tawny frogmouth. It’s made of white air-dry clay and sits on top of a container of clay.
April 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Here's mine! :D

I'm currently working on a new refsheet, though.
Fletch, a sky blue anthropomorphic falcon, soars into the sky with his wings spread. He's wearing brown leather armour and a dull red scarf - the glide set from totk. Fletch's reference sheet. He stands in a neutral pose, one wing held out to the side to show the feather patterns. There's a front view, a back view, and a side view.
April 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Happy birthday! Have a photo I took yesterday of a family of tawny frogmouths :D
A photograph taken through binoculars of an adult tawny frogmouth with two fuzzy chicks on the branch next to it.
October 24, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Sure why not. Hopefully this site keeps getting better and better!
September 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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If you see this, post a wolf!
June 7, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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Behold: A wizard.
A digital illustration of Gourdie, a portly orange and blue dragon wearing a dull grey-brown wizard hat similar to Gandalf's hat. The whole artwork has the appearance of having been drawn on cardboard.
January 29, 2024 at 2:11 AM
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You did! It looks like this on my end before I click to show it.
October 6, 2023 at 7:54 AM
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I can't believe I haven't posted any art on here yet. Have some Rito!
Fletch, a sky blue Rito based on a peregrine falcon. He is wearing the glide set from TotK and flying backwards. A rough triangle of blue sky with wispy clouds serves as a background. A Rito-fied version of @mimatoo, a red-tailed black cockatoo. She is standing in a neutral pose against a paper-textured backdrop, and wearing a colourful shawl. A Rito-fied version of Darziak, who is usually a dragon. In his left hand, he holds a large diamond. In his right, he holds a Knight's Broadsword with a Fire-Breath Lizalfos' horn fused to it. His clothing bears a red, blue, and gold colour scheme, and looks very fancy. A Rito-fied version of the Pokemon Braviary. He is wearing a red neckerchief and a fringed sash.
September 21, 2023 at 1:26 PM
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Here's my lad, Errol! He's a bard with the folk hero background.
A red dragonborn wearing a puffy-sleeved purple shirt and close-fitting blue pants. He is warily backing away from an owlbear cub. A close-up shot of a red dragonborn with strong blue-green lighting against one side of his face. A stern-looking red dragonborn outdoors in a sunny, wooded area. He is visible from the waist up in a neutral pose. A red dragonborn inspecting a book. The scene's lighting is bluish and dim.
September 12, 2023 at 12:21 PM