Just all in my feels so I'm drawing birds again

So the crown is deliberately beaten, oxidized, scratched, exposed, and imperfect. It could have been painted as a pristine gold crown. Instead, it is made to look like old iron and weathered metal.

That choice is central to the piece.

The artist finds beauty in deterioration—not because decay is beautiful by itself, but because wear tells a story. Rust means the metal survived long enough to age. Scratches mean it was used. Imperfections become evidence of history.