#Bird reference

[purple-pigeon-art]

This might just be a nitpicky thing but i see a lot of pigeons drawn with budgie noses. They dont have budgie noses! They look so weird to me drawn with their nostrils on top of the cere (white part of the nose)

Their nostrils are right above their mouths under the little fold. I always recommend looking at references for the species that youre drawing. Personally I doodle without a reference pretty often and i have a decent idea of what a pigeon looks like in my minds eye but ill always do better with references. I usually just look up pigeons on google and leave the image search results open while i draw.

Pictured are Tarot and Cloud, my homing pigeons.

[tater-hot]

Waking up to birds at my window is so fucking cool urgh

How bitch be looking at me after shitting on my window:

[freeing-the-man]

Basic bird wing physics up on ye (with visuals!)

-Nala

This was just drawn out for a friend so lemme know if you want an explanation

For the arrows it shows whether it's an upstroke or downstroke

[analog-television]

truly the best genre of images are those silly mold spore looking hatchlings sitting beside exactly one ☝️coin

i need more of these i need to start a collection

[veradragonjedi]

@please-give-me-birds

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[specimentality]

Bird Wing/Tail Database

If you ever need references for bird wings/tails I cannot recommend this collection enough! It has images of the dorsal/ventral sides of wings from a wide variety of species.

[hereticaldetective]

I cannot decide which pair of code names I prefer for these two:

Dove and Crow

The Nightingale and The Lark

[cairafea]

my favourite genre of seventeen is when they're straight up lying

ref:

[veradragonjedi]

@please-give-me-birds

The pigeon zine!!

[crowcrate]

can you draw Wave Storm and Jet in Feral forms

As opposed to their regular, domesticated forms

[egophiliac]

listen. people have always debated which character is the most normal guy but what if it has in fact been crowley the whole time. no string pulling no master plan just a guy who wants to keep his school running and is cursed with problematic students and incidents

honestly I think the funniest possible reveal would be one of two options:

ONE: Crowley has no plot relevance whatsoever. he wears the mask to cover his receding hairline. his darkest secret is the bottle of "medicinal" whiskey under his desk. this man can barely plan a PTA function with six months' advance notice, he doesn't have the time or patience for any kind of overarching master plot involving mutating students or whatever. the only thing wrong with him is that he's been running this school for (mumblemumble) years and, quite frankly, if you'd been putting up with NRC students for a couple of centuries, you'd have totally checked out by this point too.

OR

TWO: Crowley IS actually Raverne and HAS been slowly enacting a master gambit...to embezzle school funds. the overblots are still completely incidental. he has somehow less idea of what's going on than we do. we confront him about it and he's just like

[mebis-art-dump]

I have come to perceive Radiance's face hole as a weird, large beak

Now I can't unsee

[zipsunz]

a comic i made for hero's birthday 🍳 ✨

(art by me, script by @sunkitty143!)

[itmeem-art]

pigeon study

[danger-bird]

Guy can't catch a break🐦

[inkedinserendipity]

here’s something that surprised me on my all systems red reread: secunit sits down like halfway through the book! page 104, murderbot sits on one of the hopper’s benches.

and the first time i read this book i paid that line no mind! it’s just sitting down. i didn’t have the context to be like :O secunits don’t do that. secunits aren’t supposed to sit while on duty!

and now i’m thinking about the crew, who also have no idea what this means. and about mensah, who just minutes ago told it that she sees it as a person who’s trying to help (this is the first time its insides “go melty!”) and i simply do not think it is a coincidence that murderbot sits down next to its humans for the first time probably ever right after being told by a human for the first time probably ever that they see it as a person.

and it’s so satisfying on a narrative and rereading level, right, because the first time you read the book you’re with the crew—you have no idea what this means. but then you read it again, knowing more about secunits, and then the full emotional weight of that one line hits. because now you have context!

anyway this line was such a lovely example of why the murderbot diaries in particular is such a good reread. the context makes everything hit afresh the second time around, just as hard if not harder than the first!