User blog:Freefalling Lilacs/A Bird-Brained Blog Post

Yes, the title of this random blog post is a stupid bird pun. Why? Well, if anybody had noticed I'd changed my avatar a week or two ago to a Total Drama-style parrot. I figured that somebody would eventually either wonder where that icon came from or notice Cara's happy earth t-shirt in the background. Eventually real-life Risty (who's kind of been proofreading my chapters so I'll probably mention her eventually) noticed the bird and asked me about it.

So, here's the story behind the parrot. I wanted to see if I could ever possibly draw TDI-style animals and simple backgrounds and needed a scene to test both out with (or kill two birds with one stone. Ha. More bird puns :P). Does anybody remember Cara's audition tape from my last super long blog? Well, in the middle of the audition she shows up with a parrot, Mr. Crackers, on her arm. So I drew that scene and really loved the way it came out and figured I'd show it off:



Hopefully you won't notice the boring background and will be distracted by the parrot because I really love that bird. Now that I look at it the fish in the tank kind of look like they're staring down the parrot. Poor thing...