I’m a little slow in posting this, but my project over Thanksgiving break was to transform one (well, technically two if you count the stealing of the glasses) of the Target birds into Crowley, so the Aziraphale one could have his friend back.
They now have a proud spot in front of my WFH monitor 💜.
Day 10: “After my Turtledove!Aziraphale... Meet the Ineffable Birds!” – Good Omens
While we were talking about this dear Turtledove!Aziraphale, one of my followers @ineffablebirds, mentioned that they would have like to see Crowley as a black-billed magpie… the idea kept running a looong way through my head. So… here is a little gift, my friend! :-D
Goal: forcing me to keep things simple - inking, shading, just a few sashes of colour
Improvement pursued: to get the movement, the emotion, finding how to add depth, learning how to leave things barely finished
Max time allowed: 2 hours instead of 8-20 on my previous projects (2 hours for each of these sketches! I had a lot of free time this day :-p)
Today's theme chosen by me: So, of course Crowley is linked to the crow – and even more so since his little trick in the Job minisode, and the headcanon (?) about how he chose to change Crawly in “Crowley” in remembrance of this first adventure / collaboration with Aziraphale.
Buuut, Aziraphale is often associated with a dove (white hair, purity, Heaven and so on) and yet, yours truly decided that the turtledove was more appropriated (It happened right here!)
So why stop there ?
My reasons? Even if the crow is indeed very classy and matches well with Crowley, the Magpie does too. A specie said to be intelligent and altruistic, a signature chattering that is easily worth Crowley’s sniggering, and some touches of white in its plumage which furiously remind me of our demon’s not so dark alignment…
And then there is this old tale about how the magpies like to steal everything that shines. Between Crowley’s often showy getups and the fact that he did climbed the bloody Eden’s wall to capture the attention of the most luminous of all the angels, I don’t really know what more to say :-p
Upcoming Very soon, my human Turtledove!Aziraphale ! (Edit: he's here! link!)
(And a big, big THANK YOU to my dearest @malohkeh-main who always kindly translate my babblerings!)
