#birdfolk

[sorren-sews]

arctic explorer

[snejkha]

Character design for @wrensleigh // Thank you so much again//

[world-in-progressish]

I’m not dead! Been reconsidering what kind of story I wanted to tell and how I want avians and humans to interact, so I decided to make a flightless avian. I drew inspiration from macaws, kakapo, ostriches, Indian runner ducks, and the Pokémon Latias for the long neck and ear tufts. Still need to do some work on the arm feather shapes and figure out clothing and coloration. I’m tentatively calling them Striders.

They’re semi-arboreal, living in mangrove-like forests interspersed along the floodplain. Their long legs are ideal for wading through water and reaching across branches and aerial roots, while their zygodactyl feet are useful for perching and gripping bark.

Striders eat a diet of nuts, fruits and grains and maintain arboreal gardens of fruit-bearing epiphytes. They also cultivate lily-like aquatic tubers.

Arbormancy is used to construct nest hollows, bridges and other infrastructure from live trees, in addition to speeding up their growth. Some nomadic Striders make a living traveling to human settlements, using arbormancy and other botanical magics to benefit their crops- for a fee.

My “taur” birdfolk may still be part of this story, or they might not- I’ll have to consider what makes sense as I build plot and characters. I’m excited to flesh out Striders’ culture and characteristics!

[meltingmooon]

"Abandoned child, you are destined to run until you can run no more, hide until you can hide no more, for ire of the one that holds your hopes and fears will see countless casualties. Bite the hand that feeds you before it twists your little neck to cook you for dinner."

[louixie]

Getting ready for winter! Here's a MAP part I did in 2022 for this project I hosted!

[artificial-radiance]

He's different every time

[corruptimles]

D&D character design commish for @sumselgruen; thank you! 🌹🦉

Incidentally made a neapolitan flavoured bird bard 🍨

[ashuribbon]

Some DnD characters I made this year, since I had been getting into it this year!

First is for an upcoming Christmas campaign, the other was for an April Fool's one, and the other is for a campaign I'm in with a few friends!

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[anj-does-stuff]

Experimental commission for Roses 🌹

Commission Info

[cindyworks]

Thumbnail process to create the character

Testing some character poses and attitude for the final piece

Harpy Eagle study before doing the character.

Eaglefolk Base

The Base is a character template that contains PSD Files with customizable parts in Layers for the user to create an Eaglefolk, birdfolk, Aarakocra, Eagle character.

[corpsecult]

bird cleric

[klyukvav]

Faevin and the Patron 🦜

[snejkha]

Character design bust for @aniviankh // Thank you so much//

[world-in-progressish]

I've been agonizing over deciding on plumage for these guys, and I'm still not sure if I'm 100% happy with these options. I know I don't want the bright primary colors of Macaws, or for them to be 1:1 representations of real birds (though the American Avocet colors on #4 were a fun exercise). They also shouldn't be overly detailed - I want them to be fun to draw, not a slog. I was also thinking about how extending the arm shows the usually-hidden inner wing and thought it might be fun to have a contrasty, flashy display in there (though the facial skin is the main display of fitness and emotion).

I think I might narrow it down to the last two as common pattern variants, and experiment with alternate color schemes or pigment mutations.

They are a temperate marshland species, so I stuck with mostly browns and greys to make them feel more commonplace and not overly tropical due to their other similarities with parrots. Incidentally some of the color and facial patterns I gravitated to remind me of Killdeer and Plovers, which live in marshy habitats.

As always feel free to reblog and leave your thoughts and comments!

[meltingmooon]

Ihk once again because I have the blorbo disease

[corromon]

Lil Birdfolk Idea. And the budgie design is based on the birb who inspired me to start art.