twitchycrow's art blog

isaac, 26, (he/him) commissions, stickers and more: https://linktr.ee/twitchycrow This is the art blog of twitchycrow.tumblr.com i'm gay and i draw birds and blorbos!

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figured out a new way to do silhouettes for character designs!! a lil messy but it feels like its clicking into place since for individual brushstrokes i get too into the details immediately :)

feat @caelcoded 's oc zero on the left

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i had to draw my fucking mii shaking their stupid maracas from a gif I can't stop using

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budgie watercolors and oc sketches!!

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i've been on a huge ines drawing kick, it's nice to feel so brained over a blorbo!!

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Painting pigeons!! i used a sort of cardboard like paper for this one, as well as decorating it with some shiny plastic glitter since pigeons are often urban birds who have to deal with a lot of our litter. I also had fun using pigments for this piece which don't really show up in the scan, so i added a video too!

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Painting pigeons!! i used a sort of cardboard like paper for this one, as well as decorating it with some shiny plastic glitter since pigeons are often urban birds who have to deal with a lot of our litter. I also had fun using pigments for this piece which don't really show up in the scan, so i added a video too!

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cw gore/body horror (again!) under the cut! finished up that comic!

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cw for gore/body horror below cut

today and yesterday

featuring my lil guy ines! i wanna color this at some point but . ooogh i like them

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sketchbook drawings of my elezen, octavius! i haven't really done much with him in years, but he's finally getting pulled off the shelf and i'm really excited!

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drawings of my oc ines including a little blorbito chibi of them!!

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woodcock doodles from my sketchbook as well as my green cheek conure fig!

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finally got to play this character officially for the first time this week! margaritte raneri, princess of werlyt, first of her name 💕

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sketchbook drawings of emile + tasoulas (and a kiahna, who is my partner's character!!) in cheap ballpoint pen!! i love my cheap ballpoint pen so much 😭💕

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My scan of my galah painting next to what my camera picked up! I think it's really interesting how different they are. I'd say in real life it's somewhere in the middle.

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some pen sketches of #mycereva

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One of my favorite paintings from last year! My cockatiel Tiger, who I've had since 2006. 💕

(more below, cw for minor animal miscare)

I got Tiger when I was 6 years old. I saw him at a local petstore and I begged my parents for him. He was all fluffed up at the front of his cage looking at me. When the employee asked me which one I want, I said "The fat one!!"

I was given sole responsibility for taking care of Tiger, at 6 years old. This wasn't my family's first bird, we had two other birds at the time that were both older than I was. But Tiger was 'mine'. I think I kept responsibility for him for maybe 2 years before he was moved in with our older cockatiel, after my parents decided that I could not take care of Tiger on my own.

I'm 26 now, Tiger is about 20. He still lives with my parents, along with their other cockatiel, Screech, who was a rescue. I have birds of my own, but I can't take Tiger in because my partner is asthmatic, and cockatiels are extremely dusty birds.

I have a lot of guilt built around Tiger and how I've failed him as a pet parent, but I also am cognizant that I was a child who was given an unfair responsibility, to care for such a complex, intelligent living creature. I made this piece about these feelings.

I wanted to use 'childish' mediums to reflect my age when I got Tiger. I used cheap acrylic paints, crayons, glitter glue and stickers.

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one of my favorite parrots, the galah cockatoo!! there was a petstore i used to go to that had a resident galah named romeo and he was the SWEETEST guy ever. i really miss him.