The brighter birds are colored like that for a reason — representative of the mane (5).
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overdone immortal sad twilight bluh bluh alicorn concept dead frwiends bluh bluh bluh.

Just noticed I messed up and the 'rarity' bird came out too light and pinkish of a purple. Damn paint mixing skills.
I wanna sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Thank god for weekends.
I was also going to upload an earlier, second version of this but whatever.
How do birds work? .^.

Pencil, charcoal, watercolor. + Aviary for sharpening.


I filmed the making of this (halfway). Pretty shitty video, I might show it later if you want…