#Hirundine

[crowfiire]

6 & 9 for the artist ask game 👀

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

Tropical flowers! They make the brain go brrrrr, like just look at passionfruit flowers

9. What are your file name conventions

Incredibly straightforward, most of the time, generally follow a pattern of:

Title -> Additional Details -> Watermarked? -> Person For/By

And if they're for something in particular I put a tag in front of them in brackets, similar to how I title my docs:

[birds-in-watercolour]

A swallow, displaying its iridescent back. As my first time attempting to paint iridescence, I hope it looks alright. I just stuck some blue in there, really.

A professional measurement of its Fluffiness Factor determines that this bird is a juvenile. Unfortunately, there weren't any adults willing to pose quite so sweetly.

[calochortus]

Check-In by Will Atkins Via Flickr: Hundreds of Swallows (Hirundo rustica) lining up at the Durlston lighthouse before taking off for warmer climes.

[wuzhere75]

Attack on @hirundine. This got me a tad bit interested in ROS. Might check it out after Artfight is over

[0ystersaucedrawsthings]

Some quest art I finished recently for an RP group. Originally planned on finishing this in a month but I uh... was kinda ambitious with the number of things going on and ended up taking 2 haha. didn't exactly come out as I imagined it in my head but i still think it looks nice. featuring characters by @moonlit-mask @hirundine and SEASCARRED!!!

[lairai]

'Past lives couldn't ever come between us.'

╭┈➤ 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 🔸 Do you ever just get an art piece idea and then work on this new project relentlessly for days on end? That's what happened with this one. After browsing through artwork made by a variety of artists who possess both way more bravery and way more skill than I do, I was tempted to try out a piece with a non-traditional colour palette. And, well, the best way to learn how to do it is to just try. So here we are.

╭┈➤ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 🔸 My Mirabile Visu and @hirundine 's Claude have had one of my favourite unplanned character development arcs of all time. Not only do they both come from environments that shaped them into being horrible people, they both got out of said environments and managed to do a complete 180° in terms of personality, morals, and behaviour. And along the way, they also managed to fall in love, too.

[diamondscales53]

My first pixel art attack on Hirundine! I've tweaked how I do pixel art but this was a really fun piece to do!

[dansnaturepictures]

Our wild adventure in Yorkshire 1st-8th June 2024 

Over the past week we have had another fantastic, packed, relaxing and breathtaking wild holiday this year, this time returning to the Yorkshire coast for a trip based around visiting the incredible RSPB Bempton Cliffs. It was an amazing week. 

The main highlights came on the visits to Bempton on Monday and Friday, going on a boat trip underneath there and Flamborough Head on Wednesday and visits to Flamborough Head and North Landing and Thornwick Bay where we were mesmerised to be immersed in bustling seabird colonies. It was magical especially to be ensconced in the elegant world of Gannets, seeing these remarkable and bold sea kings and queens in huge numbers was an honour getting views of ones with vegetation in their bills, scuffles and many flying and still views. The enchanting Puffins with their parrot beaks were also stars of the trip, I can never tire of these birds which awaken by heart. As do Guillemots and Razorbills, more awesome auks treasured at close quarters this week. Another of my favourites the Fulmars meandered in the wind and brought me much joy. Also making Bempton and Flamborough stand out are true seagulls, the angelic Kittiwakes whose onomatopoeic calls provide the colonies’ main soundtrack, precious to witness seeing the quirky sight of the ones nesting on buildings in urban Bridlington too. The sight, sound and smell of seabird colonies enriched my soul. Also seen this week were Herring Gulls well including young, Shag, Sandwich Tern and loads of Little Terns on a first visit to places I had always wanted to go the peculiar and almost otherworldly Spurn and Kilnsea Wetlands.  

At Kilnsea Wetlands we saw a surprise bird of the trip with exhilarating views of our first Yellow Wagtails of the year, part of a rich farmland double of bird year ticks for me this trip alongside thrilling views of a grand pair of Grey Partridges on a walk from Bempton. We were spellbound to watch two owls, brilliant Barn Owl views at Bempton and epic views of stunning Short-eared Owl at Flamborough North Landing just before setting off for home today. Also standing out throughout the week were a scattering of other pretty passerines; luxurious views of Bempton’s gorgeous Tree Sparrows birds I love seeing, strong Sedge Warbler views, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Stonechat including young, Reed Buntings, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Starling, Goldfinch, Song Thrush, lots of views of hirundines Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin including on nests and Swifts. It was good to see Pheasants and Stock Dove too. Beautiful Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Avocet, Grey Plover, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Grey Heron, Teal and Wigeon mostly at Kilnsea Wetlands and Spurn were nice wader and waterfowl sightings with a Cuckoo’s call heard in a third area of the country for us this year alongside Hampshire and Scotland reverberating over the North York Moors landscape at Fen Bog Nature Reserve. 

Lepidoptera played a big part in the week with my treasured first sighting of a Small Copper this year a butterfly I needed to see at Fen Bog Nature Reserve and it was also good to see some of my last Orange Tips of the year I shall imagine with them coming to their end especially at home with lovely Painted Lady at Bempton Cliffs, Red Admiral, Dingy Skipper, Speckled Wood and Green-veined White other butterflies enjoyed. Silver Y and Mother Shipton were good to see too as was Brown House moth where we stayed. We also saw some nice caterpillars, burnet moth, Garden Tiger moth and Brown-tail moth. 

Onto other wildlife and mammals starred in the week with astonishing sightings of Weasel and Field Voles at Bempton Cliffs providing me some of my moments of the year, making my mammal year list my joint highest ever alongside last year’s total. It was breathtaking to watch iconic Grey Seals from land and from the boat at Flamborough Head with some powerful intimate experiences. Brown Hare on another holiday this year, Rabbit and Grey Squirrel were nice to see too. Fen Bog brought more marvellous moments with my first giant Golden-ringed Dragonfly and thrilling Common Lizard of the year, with bees, lots of snails and slugs including Black Slugs, flies, a Green Tiger beetle at Fen Bog also seen in Scotland, at home and Yorkshire for me this year and Long-bodied Cellar Spider at where we stayed other highlights. 

There were some fabulous flowers seen with hogweed and red campion painting swathes of colour on Bempton’s seaside meadows. Common butterwort and heath bedstraw at Fen Bog Nature Reserve and many marsh orchids adorning the coast were other key species seen. Other key flowers enjoyed across the week were meadow crane’s-bill, herb-Robert, yellow rattle, plantain, white and red clover, groundsel, oxeye daisy, daisy, chamomile, hawksbeard, sow thistle, milkwort, comfrey, poppies, mouse-ear chickweed, green alkanet, roses, buttercups, cuckooflower, vetch and seas of kidney vetch painting cliffs.

Thursday brought something slightly different for us with a look at nearby to where we stayed Sewerby Hall and Gardens; feeling inspired to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and enjoying gladiolus, roses and forget-me-not in the gardens and Humboldt Penguins, Racoon Dogs and Rheas in the Zoo among others. Quite something to see Penguins which I love then see the auks Guillemots, Razorbills and Puffin on a look at Thornwick Bay later in the day; my early childhood obsession with Penguins meaning I was drawn to these northern hemisphere counterparts when I first got into birdwatching in my mid-late childhood sowing the seeds for my hobby and passion something I reflected on a lot this week in this big seabird experiences. Finally particularly centring on rugged and stunning coast but also including meadows, moor and marsh and hints of woodland with picture postcard seaside at Bridlington too I have taken in some breathtaking views this week and nice sky scenes too. An unforgettable and extraordinary week. 

The photos I took in this photoset from the week are of; Tree Sparrow, Yellow Wagtail, carrot type flowers at Flamborough North Landing, hawksbit type flowers with a fly and beetle on at Fen Bog Nature Reserve, view at Spurn and snail at Flamborough Head, view at Thornwick Bay, Kittiwake at Flamborough Head and views at Flamborough North Landing and Sewerby Gardens.

[silverystormwing]

id in alt text!

realized I don't think I ever posted this here! Event entry of my character Sizzle & @hirundine's character Filip!

[crowfiire]

A piece for @hirundine of his Realm of Serpents character, Princet Aila Padwell! Had a great time making this piece and got some much-needed help here and there. In hindsight I probably would've coloured the base lines so they weren't black against everything else, but it's too late to fix that now.

To anyone who knows: PLEASE do not eat the sand it is NOT Cheeto dust <><><>

Character © Hirundine/J-Haskell Art © Crowfiire

Do not reupload, redistribute, or use my art without direct permission.

[buttsnorkeler69420]

some pen drawings I did of Ultimate Creatures Creator Soulless's character Devoro and Awesome Coolguy @hirundine's character Hallveig from Realm of Serpents!! i am not immune to awesome monster-people with trauma

[featheredentity]

BACK OPEN FIGURED OUT THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!! if you sent in an ask I'll get to it eventually but I'm running into some problems that are making texturing really frustrating Opening up simple 3d model requests to help brush off the rustiness! these will be done in blockbench, will be just head models unless I feel like doing more, and will be done in a similar style to the one below. (oc belongs to hirundine on tumblr) to request something go to my ask box! (please don't reblog this post to ask for something) You can also request to have the model and textures themself but you have to specify you want those. also as a disclaimer these models are NOT meant to be animated, you can still try to if you want but it'll be more difficult than if they were made with animation in mind. Things I will do; dragons, fantasy creatures in general, fandom stuff for fandoms I'm in, ocs with simple designs won't do: super complicated designs other: humans will use the normal player model as a base but I'll still model on wings n such

[boyahia]

خرشنة هجينة (الاسم العلمي:Chlidonias hybrida) (بالإنجليزية: Whiskered Tern) خرشنة في فصيلة Laridae. اسم الجنس مأخوذ من اليونانية القديمة khelidonios ، "يشبه السنونو" ، من khelidon ، "السنونو". الهجين المحدد هو لاتي��ي للهجين. يحتوي هذا الطائر على عدد من الأجناس الجغرافية التي تختلف بشكل رئيسي في الحجم وتفاصيل الريش الطفيفة. تتكاثر الهجينة في الأجزاء الأكثر دفئًا من أوروبا ومنطقة Palearctic (شمال غرب إفريقيا ووسط وجنوب أوروبا إلى جنوب شرق سيبيريا وشرق الصين وجنوبًا إلى باكستان وشمال الهند). أصغر منقار وأغمق C. h. تم العثور على delalandii في شرق وجنوب أفريقيا ، وأكثر شحوبًا C. h. javanicus من جافا إلى أستراليا. الأشكال الاستوائية مقيمة ، لكن الطيور الأوروبية والآسيوية تقضي الشتاء جنوبًا إلى إفريقيا وشبه القارة الهندية. شوهدت طائر الخرشنة المعلمة في محمية ماناكودي للطيور ، منطقة كانياكوماري في تاميل نادو ، الهند في شهر أبريل 2021. يتكاثر هذا النوع في مستعمرات في المستنقعات الداخلية ، أحيانًا بين النوارس ذات الرؤوس السوداء ، والتي توفر بعض الحماية. ينشأ الاسم العلمي من حقيقة أن هذه الطيور ، وهي أكبر من خرشنة المستنقعات ، يظهر أوجه تشابه في المظهر مع كل من خطاف البحر الأبيض وخطاف البحر الأسود. ‏============= @boyahia ============ ‏The whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek khelidonios, "swallow-like", from khelidon, "swallow". The specific hybridus is Latin for hybrid; Peter Simon Pallas thought it might be a hybrid of white-winged black tern and common tern, writing "Sterna fissipes [Chlidonias leucopterus] et Hirundine [Sterna hirundo] natam". ‏This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in. ‏C. h. hybrida breeds in warmer parts of Europe and the Palearctic (northwestern Africa and central and southern Europe to southeastern Siberia, eastern China and south to Pakistan and northern India). The smaller-billed and darker C. h. delalandii is found in east and south Africa, and the paler C. h. javanicus from Java to Australia. ‏The tropical forms are resident, but European and Asian birds winter south to Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. A tagged whiskered tern was spotted at Manakudi Bird Sanctuary, Kanniyakumari District of Tamil Nadu, India in the month of April 2021. (at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research - معهد الكويت للأبحاث العلمية) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLv88RqFkC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[puddleorganism]

I’m an admin for an arpg on deviant art/discord called Realm of Serpents and this is some asset art for it! I’ve been doing a lot lately and having a ton of fun

This is a sea serpent, a non-playable creature from our bestiary.

Sea Serpent: Massive, snake-like creatures with immense ivory tusks and webbed fins. While normally only a danger to human ships, the larger sea-serpents (referred to as Great Serpents by Tidekeepers) may even threaten dragons. Tidekeepers hunt them for their tusks; despite this, their population only seems to grow, as each serpent can spawn hundreds of eggs at a time. (Description by J-Haskell on deviantart/hirundine on tumblr)

[Image ID: an illustration of a sea serpent coiled over itself a few times. It is snake-like, with no limbs and covered in small, slightly shiny scales. It has webbed fins running along its spine from the back of its head to just beyond the tip of its tail, which also line the underside of just the tail. Its mouth is half-open, showing off a row of sharp curved teeth at the back of its jaw, and several much larger forward-pointing teeth sticking out of the front of its mouth. The bottom middle two are more like tusks, being much larger than the rest. The sea serpent is mostly dark blue and green, with a white belly. Its white belly is bordered by bright red, which fans out in little stripes off of the main stripe. The serpents back is covered in dull gold marking that match its eye color. These markings are squiggles that twist around each other and form strange patterns that almost look like writing. End ID]

[butchdykekondraki]

she doesnt have any treausre or based on anything i just loved the orange painted because of the leaf. i might make her a glass animals goat idk. ive had her a long time

hoaxes :) i adopted him and cedar wanted a trash friend goat so bad and hes our dear baby boy. he deserves all the trash friends

HIRUNDINE. passerine technoblade themed goat :) named after a passerine type of bird if i remember right but idk. was my active goatling for so long before i got ferrocarril

yakke! i just like yaks. i wanted a little yak and tried to match their treasure to their little shawl and i love her v much. baby girl to me

ghompy is based on a friend actually. they picked the ad and treaure abd i hold them gentle. good goat :) i got a albino rat after this but i think that might go in ferrocarrils treasure. i need to grind for money now i need more coins

OOUGHHH THESE R SOME AWESOME GOATS ...... LOVE THEM

[petnews2day]

Arundel steps up to Bring Back Our Birds

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Arundel steps up to Bring Back Our Birds

Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Hirundine expert, Paul Stevens was invited by Greening Arundel to spearhead a Bring Back Our Birds (B-BOB) campaign. At the launch, Paul was overwhelmed not only by the sheer number of people who turned up on a cold, wet Monday […]

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