wanted to try avian august today, a californian condor
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flame-breasted fruit dove
my first completed artwork in 2024! i'm slowly making progress on the 2023 collectible bird cards
this year i really want to focus on backgrounds so this piece took longer than usual compared to my previous card designs! i also upgraded my canvas size/resolution so now procreate limits me to only 33 layers, which was difficult to work with (give me my 50+ layers!!). hopefully i can offer larger size prints if people are interested? i will post the card version of this artwork later!
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Day 9 of #avianaugust2023 - Glittering Starfrontlet (Dusky Starfrontlet)
Reference photo was by Guillermo NAGY Aramacao Tours
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/187622091
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VISUAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIGO/LEAR'S MACAW & HYACINTH MACAW:
Indigo macaws: greenish feathers that vary in hue and saturation around the body (not always very visible), smaller size (hard to tell in images), larger yellow patches of skin, and a diagnostic white ring around eye. While that ring may not be super visible, the yellow, sometimes teardrop shaped skin patch is visible from far distances.
Hyacinth macaws: rich, cobalt blue feathers that are uniform around the body. Absolutely massive size. Yellow skin patches are generally smaller. Eye has a black ring around it instead of the white, which is, again, diagnostic.
Identifying these beautiful macaws can be difficult at first, but the more you focus on these features, the more each species will stand out.
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Avian August Day 13 - Brown-capped rosy finch with raspberry chocolate mousse 🍨
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discarded sketches from avian august last year
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day 16 - 'alalā
[original post is misspelled!!!]
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I recently have been doing some daily bird drawings to help me get back into drawing, these are all from this year's Avian August! Which wanted to do when it was actually August lol, but I was either very busy or very ill so I was unable to.
I'm doing better not and have my drawing urge back, so I may not continue these, but I might should I have the time for it! I mostly want to get back to work on personal projects again. Birds are always there....for comfort.....
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Avian August day 1, Red Siskin!
Red Siskins are an endangered species of finch from Venezuela and parts of Columbia. Cool fact about them they were used to breed the Red Factor canaries!
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