One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Clive Woodall

I randomly made this since I recently saw one of these birds in my area one weekend I was hanging out with my mom for a day, I saw a pair of them near our favorite Mexican restaurant and I looked them up in my bird app, but it wasn’t there, So I gave a description on the bird on Google and I got good results on the bird of what it was and surely enough they are an introduced species that somehow came to Houston recently from India or Burma, Tibet or Sri Lanka.

Red-Vented Bulbul (Painting) by GreenWingSpino32 Spinoart one for sorrow two for joy kirrick European robins european robin clive woodall novel birds bird passerines passerine mypaint digital art concept concept art /rape mention /decapitation mention

Maybe soon I’ll do Tomar (the snowy owl), Traska and Slyekin (who are the antagonistic magpies that are the main villains), and other characters too. I was really bored and not very much in an artistic mood for some reason (mostly it’s school that’s killing me, but at least I have about 4 or 5 weeks of it left before I get out for the summer and my sister graduates) So I thought of doing this one character from this one book I want to get called “One for Sorrow, Two For Joy” by Clive Woodall which is basically Watership Down with birds and I’ve read a sample from the novel which is very violent and gruesome (straight up decapitation and torn up to bloody pieces), Magpies and crows leading a genocide against every bird even against Kirrick’s species making him the last of his kind because of the magpies killing his species, and well there’s rape… :( (Seriously it’s a very violent novel) though at one point there was to be an animated adaptation of the book by Disney back in 2004 (though that never got off the ground and remains unmade) so I thought when I become an animator I would maybe do an adaptation of this book and thought of a possible concept for it so I did the protagonist Kirrick whose a European Robin (first time I’ve ever done a European Robin) and I kinda did this when thinking of DetectiveScheper’s adaptation of Duncton Wood (another Watership Down like novel by William Horwood, but with moles whose dark elements have the similarites as One For Sorrow, Two For Joy) and I would keep the orignal elements in the same like how Scheper said on Duncton Wood.

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Clive Woodall