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crookedCrow
@crookedcrow.bsky.social
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🎨 Digital Artist 🦜 Uncrowned Bird Queen ✒️ Writer

Occasional freelance artist, love doodling me some illustrated animals. Otherwise I'm busy pampering my non-human children. 🩵
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granuki.bsky.social
Happy Holidays Everyone! 🐝🎄

As we enter the deepest part of winter here in the North, we wanted to share a touch of Spring with you, and show off how our dialog system is progressing! The Queen can dish it, but can you take it?

#godot #b3d #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #claybees
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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himansu.bsky.social
Burd.
Pencil on paper sketches of birds. Mainly four owls, one raven and two tiny birds (I don’t know what they’re called)
December 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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banditelli.org
STOP BEING ANXIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GREMLIN #birds 🐣
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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richycraven.bsky.social
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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artvaris.bsky.social
Me: *joins a lively Discord group for artists because hey that sounds nice!*
Also me: *gets overwhelmed by the number of people there and the fast-moving, overlapping chats and becomes a silent lurker in the corner*
December 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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stinasdemons.com
Just ordered a shirt:
A parody of the DARE t-shirt that says "DRAW TO KEEP KIDS OFF GENERATIVE A.I."
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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sonybaloneyart.bsky.social
stop spending money on live action remakes

start spending money on original animation and give me and my friends jobs again
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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wwxwashere.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ninawils.bsky.social
Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
crookedcrow.bsky.social
That canceled show you'll never stop thinking about
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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christophermitten.bsky.social
Wee birdies…
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
crookedcrow.bsky.social
Listen I know it's rough but I had to stop because it was getting real fun and I got distracted...

#Daggerheart demo'd Castle High as part of their announcements today at #PAXUnplugged.
A rough pen sketch of a dragon soaring after four silhouettes of people: one riding on a curtain, one a giant wine bottle, one being carried by a giant raven, and the last posed as a running quarterback.
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
crookedcrow.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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makkon.bsky.social
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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milqsnail.bsky.social
art study for the day #artstudy #art #birds
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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marissadraws.bsky.social
My biggest tip for coloring is think of it like an equation:

Decide your most important factors, what limits that, what draws attention to that, then build everything else around that.

For instance: This object is the most important and must be orange.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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athanaca.bsky.social
Birb with a golden crown👑

#bird #animal #birdart #animalart #illustration #digitalart #decorative
Illustration of a golden crowned kinglet
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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postmodernmortem.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

And let's not forget the woman who won him his Nobel prize
Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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pawstel.bsky.social
I got REALLY carried away but I made a sculpt based off the design of this drawing with my own twist to it! I absolutely LOVE your art and really wanted to take the time to sculpt with it. ❤️

Now I gotta texture!
Dragon sculpt :) Dragon sculpt :) Dragon sculpt :)
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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bleaksqueak.bsky.social
QRP your dark art 💜

Hmm... Nakyl counts for this fine meme

#art #illustration #OCsky
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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loish.bsky.social
A little ode to last month! I associate October with many round things: pumpkins, acorns, apples, but also my cats, who become extremely round and fluffy as their fur thickens. Here’s my little ode to the roundest month of the year 🟠
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
An abandoned building by the beach where a window overlooks the sea. The water through the window resembles a painting, so someone has scrawled Free Rothko on the wall.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM