Above, four birds' heads with their beaks swapped put for historic styles of sword blades. Below, a young Charles Darwin says, " It is very remarkable that a nearly perfect gradation of structure in this one group can be traced in the form of the beak...for stabbing, slashing, or parrying–!"
1) #franimals is back omg let's goooooooooooooooo
2) lack of artistic talent combined with a perpetual need to doodle is right where I like to sit
A ballpoint pen sketch of a gauntlet holding a sword. A second sketch reveals it to actually be a bird, with the blade splitting in two down the middle as the beak, and the gauntlet's edges morphing into tiny bird feet.
Remember a #Franimals who disguised herself a weapon; and in turn became one. She held such hostility to those who would hold her dear.
For you, a swordfinch.
A sword finch in classic swashbuckler pose.
These guys are a nightmare around chandeliers. #Franimals
A sword laid on a brown leather background.
A Finch. Played by the actor Michael Emerson. He is a middle aged white man with dark hair, black glasses and wearing a suit jacket, shirt and tie.
#franimals using the materials to hand…
A rough line drawing of a finch. It is sitting on the blade of a a sword. The speech bubble is next to its open beak says the word "shit" in upper case letters (the T is a sword pointing towards)
As requested, please find attached one s-word finch #Franimals
A biro drawing of a finch on a branch. It's tail is sword shaped, with a hilt in place.
#franimals swordfinch
#franimals swordfinch
A really naff sketch of a bird with a sword. It looks cross, and is saying "you killed my father. Prepare to die"
It is Friday, so it is time for #Franimals! Please draw for me a Swordfinch.
As you can see, lack of artistic ability is NOT a disqualifying trait.
A Budgerigarter snake. It is a lot less cursed than I might have been: it’s a green/yellow budgie, flying, with a snake’s tail. It’s very loosely painted, with the white of the paper being the white in its wings, and the dark stripe along its tail bleeding out into the surrounding brown. NGL, I really like the “splot the brush down” method of painting feathers.
#franimals Late (cos brains) and rough (cos I’m figuring out how to paint with fountain pen inks):
BudgerigaaaAAAARRRGGGHH
#art #franimals
Landscape orientation pencil drawing of critter. It is drawn by an amateur. It has a snake body. To the left is a small to medium-sized lump head with beak and snake tongue. The critter has wings that are pointed ovals. There is some differentiation between snake tummy and snake top bit. Little air wiggles show that the critter is moving, probably flying but it is hard to say. The beast looks perplexed but accepting.
Here is my #FRANIMALS work for you. It can cheep but it sounds like static
I do love how #franimals is the exact opposite position to "being against AI is gatekeeping by people with aristic talent"
My friend, I absolutely cannot draw, but with a couple of pens of varying thicknesses and only two colours, even I can convey an idea that perhaps elicits a cheap laugh
A rough pen drawing of a woman, seen from the waist down, hitching up a red midi length skirt to reveal her stocking tops. Her left leg has a snake wrapped around it from her ankle up to her thigh, only the snake has the head of a budgie. There's a speech bubble next to the budgie's head that simply says Chirp
Behold, the budgerigarter #franimals
The beautiful song of the Budgerigarter Snake #franimals
An oversized budgie head/skull thing which has two small snake antennas/horns. It has a green snake body and two pathetic misshapen wings. The freakish affront to god and man then splits off into three other red snake limbs.
#FRANIMALS
Sorry for creating this hellish abomination
A very basic and wobbly line drawing of a budgie looking at itself in the mirror with a snake's tongue, saying "who'ssss a pretty monsssstrosssity"
Drawing of most of a bird with a snake body for its lower half. The snake part is curled around a branch. The bird half is supposed to be a budgie and the snake a garter snake.
Must be spring, this lad is clearly scouting for a nesting site. #FRANIMALS
#Franimals time! for the uninitiated, Franimals means "Friday animals," the rest is fairly self-explanatory
A biro sketch of the budgerigarter snake. It has head and body of the snake merging into the body, wings, and feet of the bird. The snake head has a speech bubble with 'I ssshouldn't be! in it, suggesting a creature loudly lamenting its existence.
#FRANIMALS
Super plus lack of skills. Behold a true abomination of biro!
A truly shit - and i mean truly shit - bird depicted in biro. Instead of legs, it has a long snake-like appendage with a garter on it. It looks a LOT like a dick, but thay was not intentional. I really cannot stress how shit the bird is.
It's Friday! That means it's time to channel your inner Dr Moreau and your outer Bob Ross and take part in #FRANIMALS!
Today I would like you to draw a budgerigarter snake. Lack of artistic skill is, if anything, a plus!
Here is my attempt:
A Robinturong. It has a binturong’s head, hind legs, and tail, and a European robin’s body and wings. I’m sure it still smells of popcorn, but robins are fighty little sods and I wouldn’t want to get close enough to check.
Not a pig in a hat, but an unprompted #Franimals offering. Seasonal, innit.
@brainmage.bsky.social Pleeeeease Mister Brainmage, may we have a #Franimals?
