Sherbet's Studio

I sadly don’t look this cool irl 😔 whatever lol (i don’t even have dyed hair 😭)

My hair is more turquoise/teal irl but… 🥹

My hair is longer and bleached at the tips and I sadly don’t own a lemon demon shirt but ts goes hard

sadly no agender pin :(

ugh I still have to order my hair dye I wanna go green

sunglasses for my beautiful & sensitive BLUE eyes stares at you

@i-am-gargling-orange-juice @zephlovesspacestuff

I very rarely actually talk about my love of space stuff on here considering my url so I fear I don't come across as a massive enough space nerd, but Im going to the dark skies area next month so trust me, I will be rambling on about space soon lol

We're pretending my hair is still pink and that I totally haven't let the dye wash out for my ballet show

Thank you @zephlovesspacestuff and @kit36sblog for the tag this was so much fun i love picrew!! Doing this made me realise I have no idea what I look like lmao

@yourdarklordmelkor thank you for the taaag :P I used to do picrews all the time, but it had been a while!! I've been trying to bring more color into my wardrobe but I still end up defaulting to black when in doubt. My hair is not nearly that voluminous irl lol

OMG HEY TY TY FOR THE TAG!! this picrew is supa cute

Also I love that they had the misfits shirt I'm literally wearing mine rn teehee

AND TYSM MY DEAREST FRIEND FOR THE TAG!!!!! had to hop on this effective immediately

Hello dear Rio Cassiopeia I accept this invitation… also did irl self because . Well. Looks at it. Hey guys. Ignore that her forehead a little big i did my best

Thank you @sherbetstudios for the tag! For this I tried to make it look less like my irl self and more like my sona

I don’t know who to @ soooo

I sadly don’t look this cool irl 😔 whatever lol (i don’t even have dyed hair 😭)

My hair is more turquoise/teal irl but… 🥹

My hair is longer and bleached at the tips and I sadly don’t own a lemon demon shirt but ts goes hard

sadly no agender pin :(

ugh I still have to order my hair dye I wanna go green

sunglasses for my beautiful & sensitive BLUE eyes stares at you

@i-am-gargling-orange-juice @zephlovesspacestuff

I very rarely actually talk about my love of space stuff on here considering my url so I fear I don't come across as a massive enough space nerd, but Im going to the dark skies area next month so trust me, I will be rambling on about space soon lol

We're pretending my hair is still pink and that I totally haven't let the dye wash out for my ballet show

Thank you @zephlovesspacestuff and @kit36sblog for the tag this was so much fun i love picrew!! Doing this made me realise I have no idea what I look like lmao

@yourdarklordmelkor thank you for the taaag :P I used to do picrews all the time, but it had been a while!! I've been trying to bring more color into my wardrobe but I still end up defaulting to black when in doubt. My hair is not nearly that voluminous irl lol

OMG HEY TY TY FOR THE TAG!! this picrew is supa cute

Also I love that they had the misfits shirt I'm literally wearing mine rn teehee

AND TYSM MY DEAREST FRIEND FOR THE TAG!!!!! had to hop on this effective immediately

I sadly don’t look this cool irl 😔 whatever lol (i don’t even have dyed hair 😭)

My hair is more turquoise/teal irl but… 🥹

My hair is longer and bleached at the tips and I sadly don’t own a lemon demon shirt but ts goes hard

sadly no agender pin :(

ugh I still have to order my hair dye I wanna go green

sunglasses for my beautiful & sensitive BLUE eyes stares at you

@i-am-gargling-orange-juice @zephlovesspacestuff

I very rarely actually talk about my love of space stuff on here considering my url so I fear I don't come across as a massive enough space nerd, but Im going to the dark skies area next month so trust me, I will be rambling on about space soon lol

We're pretending my hair is still pink and that I totally haven't let the dye wash out for my ballet show

Thank you @zephlovesspacestuff and @kit36sblog for the tag this was so much fun i love picrew!! Doing this made me realise I have no idea what I look like lmao

@yourdarklordmelkor thank you for the taaag :P I used to do picrews all the time, but it had been a while!! I've been trying to bring more color into my wardrobe but I still end up defaulting to black when in doubt. My hair is not nearly that voluminous irl lol

OMG HEY TY TY FOR THE TAG!! this picrew is supa cute

Also I love that they had the misfits shirt I'm literally wearing mine rn teehee

AND TYSM MY DEAREST FRIEND FOR THE TAG!!!!! had to hop on this effective immediately

Hello dear Rio Cassiopeia I accept this invitation… also did irl self because . Well. Looks at it. Hey guys. Ignore that her forehead a little big i did my best

dude.

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.