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A pair of friends! As-of-yet unnamed, a slobby Raven and a dweeby Sooty Owl.
They’ll be featured in a project I’m working on right now *v*
They’ll be featured in a project I’m working on right now *v*
Category All / Doodle
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File Size 493.4 kB
They have the cutest little faces and dusty countenances! <3 My personal favorites...
My next favorite might be Snowy or Great Gray... so large and silent and regal and out of reach, compared to the fairy-tale pixies most owls are sort of like. A sooty, by contrast, is your high school boyfriend with the adorable smile who makes you the most delicious baba ganouj when you visit. Who wouldn't love a boy like that?
(I love the strange mutually-antagonized relationship owls and crows/ravens have... I had forgotten about this, had an animation film proposal a few years back, where the forest mystic was a raven who was basically "The Dude," and his cute wee gay sooty owl apprentice, they had a bit of a platonic relationship. It was flawed, but I would love to bring those characters back.)
My next favorite might be Snowy or Great Gray... so large and silent and regal and out of reach, compared to the fairy-tale pixies most owls are sort of like. A sooty, by contrast, is your high school boyfriend with the adorable smile who makes you the most delicious baba ganouj when you visit. Who wouldn't love a boy like that?
(I love the strange mutually-antagonized relationship owls and crows/ravens have... I had forgotten about this, had an animation film proposal a few years back, where the forest mystic was a raven who was basically "The Dude," and his cute wee gay sooty owl apprentice, they had a bit of a platonic relationship. It was flawed, but I would love to bring those characters back.)
Great Greys are great, I love their tiny little faces in the middle of great big fluffy heads. Ural Owls are one of my favourites too, they look like little quiet clouds. Fish Owls are great too, they have these great big tufts and look the kinda owls that should be in High Fantasy fiction. Except slightly less regal than LOTR's Golden Eagles hhhah. NGL I would totally date a Sooty Owl who was a good chef to boot.
(Oh my goodness gracious that film proposal sounds adorable, I would watch the hell out of that. Please do, I would love to see those characters they sound great! )
(Oh my goodness gracious that film proposal sounds adorable, I would watch the hell out of that. Please do, I would love to see those characters they sound great! )
Ural owls are gorgeously striped, they're the ones that hippies have pictures of on their vans X3 Fish owls... I love them, but I keep thinking when I see them "Don't press A, the monologue's almost done..." They're fantasy owls! They'd be in Redwall, the magical interlopers between the mice and the mammal-eating owls...
My Latin teacher in high school was obsessed with owls, he had roman carvings and sculptures of noctuae ulululae buboque all over the room. Every graduating class got him one more owl-shaped thing, we got him a cookie jar shaped like a great horned ^^ ("Ulula" is a screech owl, his personal favorite, but he loved the little ones, and the diminuitive in latin is "ula," hence caligae->caligula, hence "ulululae," little screech owls. Language is fun!) I can't think of owls without picturing this jerky, stubbly little man with his lidded southern eyes, snapping at the slacker kids in the back, "Ducem tamen oppugnatis, heu, discipulis tergis!* You learn not, but stand there, with your mouths open, waiting to be fed."
Good cooking helps much more than people think... If you find one who can cook lebanese, ask him if he's got a friend
I haven't drawn a picture of them since I learned to draw, consider it requested!
It was a ridiculously pompous film, these guys were secondary characters. You know the Reynard cycle, and you know the Nun's Priest's Tale from Canterbury Tales? (Disney almost made this film, http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....anticleer.html http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....anticleer.html http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....and-final.html , a 1960s french farce adapted from Rostrand's "Chanticleer" play mixed with the Reynard cycle, and it's the best film they never made.)
In a nutshell, a fox and a wolf are insane and bitter rivals fighting for territory in a mediaeval french forest... an overprotective and neurotic rooster, Chantecler, has prophetic dreams, and they fight over him as a valuable resource... He goes to this hippie shaman raven character for therapy and to help interpret the dreams. The owl's lover is being gay-blackmailed by the villain wolf to serve as his nocturnal spy. Shit piles up.
I've toyed with rewriting it as a bad hollywood post-apocalypse screenplay... the lack of non-stereotypical female roles grates on me, but in Hollywood no one would bat an eyelash. I've been toying with making the raven and the gay owls all female, to counterpoint it.
*Roughly, "I instruct and yet you oppose me, alas! you students in the back." Google translate is pathetic with latin, don't even try.
My Latin teacher in high school was obsessed with owls, he had roman carvings and sculptures of noctuae ulululae buboque all over the room. Every graduating class got him one more owl-shaped thing, we got him a cookie jar shaped like a great horned ^^ ("Ulula" is a screech owl, his personal favorite, but he loved the little ones, and the diminuitive in latin is "ula," hence caligae->caligula, hence "ulululae," little screech owls. Language is fun!) I can't think of owls without picturing this jerky, stubbly little man with his lidded southern eyes, snapping at the slacker kids in the back, "Ducem tamen oppugnatis, heu, discipulis tergis!* You learn not, but stand there, with your mouths open, waiting to be fed."
Good cooking helps much more than people think... If you find one who can cook lebanese, ask him if he's got a friend
I haven't drawn a picture of them since I learned to draw, consider it requested!
It was a ridiculously pompous film, these guys were secondary characters. You know the Reynard cycle, and you know the Nun's Priest's Tale from Canterbury Tales? (Disney almost made this film, http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....anticleer.html http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....anticleer.html http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/201.....and-final.html , a 1960s french farce adapted from Rostrand's "Chanticleer" play mixed with the Reynard cycle, and it's the best film they never made.)
In a nutshell, a fox and a wolf are insane and bitter rivals fighting for territory in a mediaeval french forest... an overprotective and neurotic rooster, Chantecler, has prophetic dreams, and they fight over him as a valuable resource... He goes to this hippie shaman raven character for therapy and to help interpret the dreams. The owl's lover is being gay-blackmailed by the villain wolf to serve as his nocturnal spy. Shit piles up.
I've toyed with rewriting it as a bad hollywood post-apocalypse screenplay... the lack of non-stereotypical female roles grates on me, but in Hollywood no one would bat an eyelash. I've been toying with making the raven and the gay owls all female, to counterpoint it.
*Roughly, "I instruct and yet you oppose me, alas! you students in the back." Google translate is pathetic with latin, don't even try.
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