A digital drawing of one. It stands on both legs and is slightly diagonal through the image. The bird has dark purple blue-green feathers combined with black and white. The colours are dark.
The background is a spotty down feather pattern gradient from greenish to soft blue. The down feathers are made from a feather which was scanned and then made into a brush. The illustration was made in Pro create a digital drawing programme on the tablet.
Magpies are my favourite birds. They are beautiful to look at and in practice they seem quite cheeky. Yet it is often quite difficult to approach them up close. Magpies have a bad name because they are cheeky and do rob young birds from other nests. But they are just who they are. For me, they have a special place in my heart, also because they look so beautiful et their shiny feathers and high contrast in black and white.
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