fuck yeah fancy pigeons

These are the brown fan tailed pigeons, Jasmine and Moreno.

Daily Dove (Or Pigeon) 04: Shirazi Pigeon

In all honesty, I often have a hard time telling the Shirazi and the Lahore apart cos they look so ridiculously similar. At least to a numpty like me. They can have similar colours and patterns and I THINK the most defining difference is their size. The lahore is bigger if I recall correctly.

I have a pigeon character called Blue in my developing comic ‘Crumbs’ and she’s one of those breeds. I say shirazi but I might change that cos it’s my comic and I’ll cry if I want to. Or something.

All of the pokemon variants were super inspiring so here are some pidoves! While the carrier breed is considered a highly reliable mail pokemon and the princess breed a popular pet, most fancy pidoves are used only for contests. Pidoves revert back to wild type within a few generations if not bred properly so fancy varieties are pretty much never encountered in the wild.

Feeding The Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur [1894]

Daily Dove (Or Pigeon) 01: Rock Dove

And we kick off this little challenge with the classic rock dove, the adorable little bugger that you’ll see pretty much everywhere. Figured we’d start with a breed everyone will recognise. Tomorrow they’ll start to get a little more obscure, especially as we go down the list!

Camera Play: Doodling with Photography

Hey everyone! Long time, no smell!

Because I haven’t been sharing much artwork online lately, I’ve given myself this challenge: Starting from tomorrow, I am doing to sketch, colour and share a drawing of a pigeon every day for the whole of May and share it on tumblr. I call it the Daily Dove (Or Pigeon) Challenge! I like alliteration, sue me.

There are thousands of different pigeon and dove breeds out there so it wasn’t hard for me to compose a list. They consist of either known breeds, my favourite breeds or ones I figured would be fun to draw. Some are even new to me and I’m looking forward to sketching them out! I’ll be tagging the artwork as ‘Daily Dove’.

I’ll try my best not to miss a day although I am realistic to know that sometimes real life will get in the way, be it from prior commitments or bad feels. Even so, I’m going to give it my best shot!