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I've been dinking around with making a raven character to run around as, and after several failed design attempts, an idea hit me. I decided to cross the Common Raven with a Raggiana Bird of Paradise. The shape of the raven is the same, but with R. BoP markings and iridescence. This emotionless version is really rough. Besides refinement, it lacks throat hackles and some sparkley shimmery parts I usually add to feathertips.

Both Corvids and Birds of Paradise mean a lot to me. Ravens remind me a lot of myself. They like dead stuff and shiny things, they fluff out a lot, they fling themselves in and out of potential danger, they are really shy, and are a bunch wisecrackers. I do wish I could fly! Birds of Paradise represent an element of surrealism and of child hood dreams. When I first learned of them, there was hardly any information. There still isn't a lot of information about them! Photos of certain species like the Greater, Lesser, and Raggiana BoPs, are more common, but some....I can't find any photos! Not to mention information on them. Imagine being a kid and hungering to know more about something and being blocked from every angle. And this was before the internet!

Another element of surrealism to BoPs is that they were originally believed to descend from the heavens, or Paradise, and for that reason the didn't have legs. Many skins from the 1800s and before had their legs cut off to perpetuate this myth,

Anyway, that's a short explanation of what these birds mean to me. Don't get me started on hummingbirds. ;3

Name suggestions are welcome. :3

Edit: I added some hackle feathers and glowies as well as some other tinkerings.

Description
I've been dinking around with making a raven character to run around as, and after several failed design attempts, an idea hit me. I decided to cross the Common Raven with a Raggiana Bird of Paradise. The shape of the raven is the same, but with R. BoP markings and iridescence. This emotionless version is really rough. Besides refinement, it lacks throat hackles and some sparkley shimmery parts I usually add to feathertips.

Both Corvids and Birds of Paradise mean a lot to me. Ravens remind me a lot of myself. They like dead stuff and shiny things, they fluff out a lot, they fling themselves in and out of potential danger, they are really shy, and are a bunch wisecrackers. I do wish I could fly! Birds of Paradise represent an element of surrealism and of child hood dreams. When I first learned of them, there was hardly any information. There still isn't a lot of information about them! Photos of certain species like the Greater, Lesser, and Raggiana BoPs, are more common, but some....I can't find any photos! Not to mention information on them. Imagine being a kid and hungering to know more about something and being blocked from every angle. And this was before the internet!

Another element of surrealism to BoPs is that they were originally believed to descend from the heavens, or Paradise, and for that reason the didn't have legs. Many skins from the 1800s and before had their legs cut off to perpetuate this myth,

Anyway, that's a short explanation of what these birds mean to me. Don't get me started on hummingbirds. ;3

Name suggestions are welcome. :3

Edit: I added some hackle feathers and glowies as well as some other tinkerings.