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sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

depsidase

nattousan

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

nattousan

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

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Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

nattousan

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

nattousan

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

nattousan

Madam....

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birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

nattousan

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

nattousan

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

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SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

nattousan

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

nattousan

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

nattousan

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

nattousan

thanks for the reminder, kid

nattousan

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

anothercrankyblogger

What they aren't telling these kids that's really dangerous is that if you do make it all the way to the heart of a Scientology building, the autosave will lock you into entering the Tom Cruise boss fight chamber, and you won't be able to leave until you defeat him in combat.

willgrahamscock

Thought crimes of course aren’t real but uh. We know those aren’t just thoughts anymore once you’ve posted them publicly, yeah?

Then they’re just crimes.

sure, fictional crimes since nothing happened and no one was hurt. should we put the fictional handcuffs on? "sorry, you wrote about murder which is illegal, go spend 20 years in mind jail"

lustcannibalism

y'all make so much more fuss about shit in fanfiction than crimes in real life

biglawbear

Agatha Christie is serving 100,000 consecutive life sentences for all the murders

maswartz

sailermoon

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

sailermoon

lackadaisycal-art

Don't tell instagram but I'm getting a headstart on the Muppets 70th Anniversary... many more muppets to come

lackadaisycal-art

HAPPY 7Oth BIRTHDAY TO THE LITTLE FELLA

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emryses

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

kosmogrl

no matter how much we fear something the time will pass anyway and we’ll still have to face it. we might as well stop worrying so much in the meantime, it won’t change a thing

konfettiklown

i bet count von count has killer fuckin music taste

konfettiklown

look what he drives. i have got to get this little purple fucks spotify

thominyourside

underratedgrapeju1ce

i'm so fucking over it

bad-faith-misinterpreter

Oh so you'd rather use eugenics on animals and abuse them instead? 🙄

underratedgrapeju1ce

i was about to get violent then i saw the handle im crying

sioltach

Switching between these every day

ciphillan

Watched Frankenstein (2025) with my dad. Felt compelled to draw G3 Frankie with their own dad.

Let's be creatures with papa!

renmorris

Grunkle Stan of gravity falls lives in my brain in a way few characters do. I’ve made like…4 to 5 different fan mixes. Stanmixes. He’s got a heart of gold. Intergenerational Jewish immigrant trauma. He’s been imprisoned and institutionalized. He spent at least a decade homeless. He’s been a drug mule and a sex worker. He has like 3 ex wives. He might be the reincarnation of an insane god doomed to suffer the most mundane horrors earth has to offer just to ultimately kill himself. He had to teach himself theoretical physics without a high school degree. He doesn’t have any of his own teeth left and that’s not even a cartoon stylization because he had to chew himself out of the trunk of a car.

How do I get my HDB followers in on this.

renmorris

I think part of the magic at work here is like…he’s a big part of the comic relief, but those jokes are grounded in deeper characterization. This is kind of baked into the core concept, right? The classic caricature of the greedy Jewish miser redefined into a 3 dimensional character that subverts the stereotype.

So the comedy is really satisfying and genuinely quite good. I love that he’s petty enough to beef with a child like Gideon (and god, the comedy of having a Jersey conman showdown with a Deep South conman is chefs kiss, they’re hysterical) but gets actually concerned when he thinks the kid is having a total breakdown. Very underrated scene.

I do think with Stanley they do such a great job of marrying cartoon shenanigans with highly realistic portrayals of trauma. And there’s an extent to which the show does revolve around him specifically, like Ford's characterization being a response to Stan's. Where they worked backwards to imagine the person that made Stan this way.

It's just really rewarding to see that effort and attention put into a character, the way Stan slowly progresses to calling Mabel sweetie etc is just! Really good! He is growing continuously and that’s so fun.