Inspiration from this came from the idea that my Mewthree, Mewblade is a bit too statuesque at times (she doesn't breathe, so it gives her the eerie capacity to stand almost perfectly still), and with her giant head blade, birds might treat her like a perch. I'm not a comedy person, so the likely situation is she'd be pooped on by pigeons, and there would be a lot of dead birds in her general area. I decided to go with a more attractive, and evidently more challenging idea (since I should try to challenge myself regularly) and have Mewblade nicely draped in the Papua New Guinea species of birds, known as the Birds of Paradise (male versions, since females of almost all bird species are brown and drab).

In the end she looks relaxed, the background looks... bad but at least not jarring, and there are birds. Which are not my forte, but something to try for once since I can draw actual animals and birds from time-to-time, but sometimes I forget I can paint, do realism or some offset of anything that requires a brain and reference.

Tried some brushes from www.kanaikia.deviantart.com and www.zummerfish.deviantart.com and they did good for the far background elements. Evidently, I was way too unrestrained and the foreground just absolutely sucks. Wasn't feeling patient, and not really a brush user. (Hence the focal blur that is used obsessively.) More practice required if I want to do more natural environments. Definitely need more practice with birds as well (their heads are too big). They're not awful, they're just not good either. Mewblade is her Mewblade self, as per usual, though maybe more content than expected. It's a different concept for sure, and not something that would be common in my gallery.

(I'm glad to be adding some actual good, clean art to Fur Affinity. Breaks up all the low quality fetishistic junk that everyone else is posting to the Mewtwo search.)

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