An illustration of three warbling white eyes, green and white birds with white eye rings, in a cherry blossom tree. Two of the three warblers are perched on top of flowers. The third one peeks out of the bottom right corner and gazes at the viewer. It's holding a flower in its beak for the viewer.
🌸 April showers bring bird flowers 🪶
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Small creatures with small(er) hats: sketch commissions. $15 per creature. Three sketch birds are depicted, each one wearing their own different fanciful hats. They're such dashing birds.
Steps to get a commission: 1. Pick a creature of your choice: give me a reference image or name a species. 2. Now pick a hat to bestow: tell me what you want or let me choose. 3. Choose your artwork format: digital commission or "trading card" physical edition. Digital commissions include a 1500px square PNG exported and emailed at 300dpi. The physical edition is a pen/pencil sketch on a 300gsm cardstock that's roughly 63x90mm in a card sleeve protector. There's an additional $5 fee for untracked shipping or an additional $10 fee for tracked shipping.
DO YOU LIKE BIRDS IN HATS? 🎩🪶
I also like birds in hats, as well as many a creature being fanciful. And now YOU 🫵 can get a custom creature in a hat!!
Visit comm.calicococoa.ca for more information and to order your own creature :D
Open until end of March 2026!
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The finished illustration of the sketch from the previous post. It features Mirsisi and his tiny drake, Pelt, as comets shoot through the sky behind him. Mirsisi stands, holding a recorder in his right hand, and starts to put it down as he looks at the viewer. He's a dark skinned man with long dark hair pulled up into a messy bun behind his head. He has heterochromia with one golden eye and one silver eye. He's wearing a white jacket with green accents and a golden emblem of a bow and arrows over his left chest. Pelt, the small drake perched on Mirsisi's shoulders, has a very long tail and is light blue, almost white. He has various crystalline shards jutting out of its head and on its forearms.
Enjoy Heat Abnormal × my OC Mirsisi
Would he absolutely hate it in that timeline/song? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean I don't love a whole song dedicated to someone's dying message :')
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Sketch of a man holding a recorder and looking down at the viewer. A long creature is perched on his shoulders.
Trying to get back into character illusts after being chained to doing architecture drawings for the past half a year.
Might finish this one, might not. Depends how addicted I will be to Heat Abnormal (inspo for the illust) in a week 😩
#CalicoCocoaIllust #WIP
Two Canada geese stand in a group of white trilliums on the ground. The two touch beaks, a small ring of flowers being shared between them. The goose on the left is wearing a lovely red ribbon around its neck while the other is wearing a crown and wedding veil.
True love at first honk 💘
Two black capped chickadees are perched on a branch. One of them is wearing a flower crown made out of winter camellias, berries and twigs. The other bird, with a twig in its mouth, waits to place more onto the flower crown.
Is it really winter if you haven't yet heard the chickadee-dee-dee-dee-dee?
I am slowly rendering The Hatted Birbs from the sketch. Here's the first one!
I'm trying to stick to drawing at least one fanciful hatted birb a month but I'm not exactly the most consistent person so we'll see how long the streak lasts 😂🫣
Sketches of two black capped chickadees on a barren branch. One of the chickadees, perched slightly higher than the other chickadee, has a flower in its mouth. The other chickadee is wearing a flower crown and awaits the other chickadee to put it into the crown. Notes for winter flowers and plants are scrawled next to the sketches of the birds.
Next birds with hats sketch is a bird you can see and then immediately hear in your mind's eye—I mean, ear.
Sketches of three birds. From left to right: pacific wren, white wagtail and rough-legged hawk. All three birds are wearing hats. The wren has on a newspaper cap and has a small shoulder strap bag holding some newspapers. The wagtail is strutting with a fantastic fedora. Last but not least the hawk has on a tall top hat. Not Doug Dimmadome levels of tall, but still at least two or three hawk heads tall.
Might come back to visit these sketches later! 🪶🎩
A little blue heron and a crow. The two birds‘ beaks touch and the crow lets out a little heart as they do. The little blue heron is wearing a helmet, with its faceshield raised, and full plate chest armor. The crow is perched inside of a cardboard castle. It's wearing a pointed hat with stripes and a long silk fabric twirling down from it. The crow also has on a lovely red bow with a bright red gemstone.
“Thank you for coming, my knight.”
Seven grouses and ptarmigans are gathered together and are wearing party hats and are surrounded by confetti. One of them, a small chick, sleeps in a cupcake, while another is holding a balloon. A rock ptarmigan in the foreground pops up from the bottom, causing a motion blur.
-insert darude sandstorm music-
I know that they're not *all* ptarmigans but my friend called them Partimigans and I love it and kind of want to name the finished piece that? 😂
#WorkInProgress #WIP #CalicoCocoaIllust 🪶
It's Friday. Time to party 🪶
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