aside from my rice here’s a doodle dump of my timeskip johto kiddos all scribbled during classes! forgot to upload this some time ago but it's a mix of silly doodles, profile studies and outfit ideations 📝
Please enjoy this video of what is probably my favorite animal behavior I've ever caught on film. These birds are two juvenile Nazca boobies and as you can see one of them is showing off an extremely impressive ability to toss and catch a small rock/dirt clump with their beak. This behavior is believed to be a form of play in young diving birds that serves to train the finely tuned motor skills they'll need to catch fish once they reach adulthood. Suliform birds are some of the best fishers in the world and after observing this level of skill it's easy to see why!
I am SO sure that my local kookaburra knows I’m obsessed with him because anytime I hear him or see him in my backyard I’m running and pressing my face (and phone camera) to the glass with the giddiest smile on my face.
Also he’s looked right at me with all the judgement a bird with mocking laughter for birdsong can have. I love him.
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I caught this magnificent frigatebird chick in the middle of an absolutely enormous yawn but he somehow looks even more ridiculous with his mouth closed
I wanted to draw Sozo, and I was gonna draw him happy but then I drew him kinda out of it instead, and then I thought about the paranoia and I gave him a weapon, and then it spiraled into remembering he eats people
Pinning that poor fungus to the wall yaoi style :|
He was about an inch wide or a bit bigger. I was very impressed. He was nestled in a bunch of moss 5 feet up a tree. (Was seen in Western Washington state forest.)
Media: Faber-Castell oil base pencils on smooth bristol.