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Harkthorn
@harkthorn.bsky.social
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Does art, likes birds | Daily sketches | Parrots and Pigeons | NoGеnAߊ

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Nab completely ignoring Coopuccino trying to both hoard the seeds and threaten him

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A photo of two feral pigeons outside on a window sill. On the right is a pied spread blue male, stood over some seed, in a threatening posture. On the left is a blue bar male, blurry as he ignores the other bird and pecks at the seed at warp speed
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Palm cockatoo sketch, in ballpoint pen

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A black ballpoint sketch of a Palm cockatoo, from about the shoulders up, viewed from the side and facing to the left of the image. It has its beak open
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Started playing Gnosia after enjoying the anime so far, and apparently I should be getting very used to seeing this screen
A screenshot from the Switch version of the videogame Gnosia. It is a textbox saying "Raqio was sent to cold sleep", with a little Next (A) box to advance in the bottom right of it. In the background, a portrait of the top half of a non-binary person with mostly-blue brightly coloured clothes and makeup has their eyes closed, hand held up to the side of their head. The artwork is hued blue, faded out, and is against a black background.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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White tailed deer sketch

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A blue ballpoint pen sketch of the head of a White-tailed deer, facing to the left of the image
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Black-throated magpie jay

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A black ballpoint sketch of the top half of a Black-throated magpie jay, viewed from the side and facing to the left of the image
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Ohtori inspecting my work after his shower

For the next colour/s I have some other metallics-gold, copper, silver, bronze (makes me think of dragon scales)-then when I'm brave enough, I got a glittery teal to match Ohtori's throat feathers
A photo of a Blue-throated conure perched on a hand, looking down at the nails, which are painted in a metallic dark grey colour #parrotsky
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Dragon sketch. I saw a blurry photo of a goat, and the turned-forward ears looked like horns, which is what inspired this. The beard and longer back/spine hair are now spikes, kept the goat horns, and he's got a lil goat-like nose

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A blue ballpoint pen sketch of the head of a dragon, facing to the left of the image. It is roughly based on a mountain goat, with two pairs of horns, and various spikes
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A dragon based on a plumed basilisk lizard for today's sketch. The headcrest of the male lizard in one photo looked like it was actually two protrusions at angles, so I took that idea and exaggerated the size

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A green ballpoint sketch of a small dragon based on a plumed basilisk lizard. It is perched among many small leaves, it's body hidden from its midsection and further back. Its wings are raised. It is facing to the right of the image. It has small spines on its nose, and two long scaled protrusions from the back of its head, one on each side
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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African wild dog/Painted dog/Painted wolf sketch, in ballpoint. These are fun to draw

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A black ballpoint pen sketch of the head and neck of an African wild dog/Painted dog, viewed from the side, with it facing to the right of the image
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A happy Stevejamin

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A photo of a happy yellow cockatiel perched on a green textured perch against a cardboard background
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Silly little dragon doodle sketch, was busy working on other things this day

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A green ballpoint doodle/sketch of a little dragon sat down on the floor in front of a low table with an easel and canvas on it. The dragon has its wings raised, and a pen in its hand, with another pen in front of the canvas. It is looking intently at the canvas, thinking, brow furrowed and tongue poking out slightly. A basic dragon can be seen on the canvas
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Coopuccino portrait

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A close up portrait photo of the right side of a pied blue spread feral pigeon, outside. He is looking at the viewer with one orange eye
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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7am lucky Coopuccino encounter

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A photo of a pied spread blue feral pigeon stood outside on a window sill
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Tiger sketch. Micron brush pen on top of ballpoint underlines, then Ecoline colour, to see how it would blend/react to water droplets-some of them have cool effects and edges like here, some just blend smoothly and look boring

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A black ink sketch of a walking tiger, coming towards the viewer, seen slightly from above. The background around the tiger is red/pink watercolour, blended and splashed with water
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Crappy photo through the window (all the pigeons were nervous, so maybe shitty neighbour was about) but here's Coopuccino and holy shit it's his mate Americano! Last seen four months ago

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A bad photo, taken from inside and through the window glass, of two feral pigeons outside on a window sill. The closest is a pied blue spread male. The further is a blue spread female with feathered legs
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Today's Nab

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A photo of a blue bar feral pigeon with pearl eyes, stood outside on a window sill, head turned to look at the viewer face on
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Grumpy looking house griffon perched on top of a door. Not happy with the forepaws, but I like how everything else turned out

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A purple ballpoint sketch of a wingless griffon with scaled forepaws perched on top of a minimally drawn door. The viewer is looking up at them, and the griffon is staring directly at the viewer
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Today's Nab, and his much-loved wife Ghost. Taken through the window to not disturb their dinner date

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A photo, taken from inside and facing outwards through a window, of two feral pigeons on a window sill eating some seed. The left pigeon is a blue bar male with pearl eyes, and he's stood up, alert, watching over his mate. The right pigeon is a blue bar female with grizzle, and she is busy eating
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Today's Dopple

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A photo of a hand holding a glass filled with bird seed, next to a window frame. The window is open, and an ash-red feral pigeon is stood outside on the window sill, eating from the glass. He has a single dried pea in his beak
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Green bean Inko was very brave this evening. After taking a bath (dunking his head) in his small water bowl full of dissolved supplement and other random stuff he'd dropped in there, he did something to his right eye-would barely open it, kept scratching/rubbing, etc. I lured him out, then-
A photo of a yawning Green Cheek conure perched inside his cage, eyeing up the viewer
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A much more cat-based griffon sketch today. Even the front paws are too, because I couldn't seem to underline good bird-like forefeet-but trying cat paws came out pretty much instantly, and looked good

(They would be laid down on something comfy, if I'd bothered to do any background)

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A black ballpoint pen sketch of a wingless griffon, laid down on their left side, forelimbs stretched out in front. Their head is closest to the viewer, and butt/tail furthest away. The forepaws are soft furred cat paws, rather than anything scaled or bird-like. They're looking at something off to the right of the image
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Screwhorn antelope sketch. Green ballpoint pen, and fountain pen with green ink

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A green ballpoint pen and green ink sketch of a screwhorn antelope, laid down on the sparse ground, with forelegs tucked beneath itself and head held up
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Ginger portrait

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A close up side view photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon, stood outside on a window sill
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Today's Ginger

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A photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon with heavily feathered legs, stood outside on a window sill
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Griffon boing

Definitely done this pose more than a few times before, but whatever. THIS one has a random red circle behind it

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A blue ballpoint pen sketch of a wingless griffon, viewed from the side and facing to the left of the image. It is mid leap, forelegs tucked up. The background is white, but there is a red line circle behind the griffon, with a light grey fill
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM