#make some of the stripes resemble markings (inconsistent so not very helpful...) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thereareeyesinsidethetrees · 3 months ago

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just a note- ae really love the variety you get in birds. like yeah obviously there's a huge difference between ostriches and mourning doves. and yeah you've got birds that are rainbow or bright blue or green or even purple. but you've also got birds with vibrant bright blue beaks and birds with neon red legs. you've also got birds with blue eyes and purple eyes and pink eyes and red eyes and multicolor eyes and silver eyes and every color under the sun basically. in other words, it's really cool how different every species of bird is, even from other species in the same genus. ae like them

#we're making good progress on the project ae think #the main issue right now is- how are we going to distinguish all these flags from each other?#cause there's only so many colors #current ideas:#include markings on diamond (only works for certain species like the whale shark or epaulette sharks. and like.#bird species with super distinct markings cause we are not doing gradients or mixed markings. since they can be very difficult to draw)#give the diamond multiple rings corresponding to bird eye colors (extinct birds being entirely greyscale in color possibly)#also yeah we're including (*recently) extinct birds in it #edit some stripes to resemble waves (could help but are more difficult to consistently draw and only work for some of the labels)#no terrorbirds but we do have the dodo and the reunion birds and such thrown in #make a little silhouette of a generic shark for the shark aldernic labels #same goes for chimaera #harder for birds since there's. no real generic bird #put a symbol in the center of the diamond (what symbol?? most are already linked to various genders)#make some of the stripes resemble markings (inconsistent so not very helpful...)#(the majority would not have wavey stripes)#add teeth inside the diamond (only helpful for like. some shark species since there's a lot of difference between them)#edit the diamond to reflect certain distinct features (most interested in this one #because how cool would a diamond resembling the beak of a double-toothed barbet be?#or a diamond with tail feathers? or a crest?#or a diamond with the feather horns/ears some species have?#or any of the other different features species have?#only issue is that there's less super distinct variety in sharks and chimaeras #so edits would be more subtle #but it could still work!)

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