Sarah Smith - Nature Artwork

Mine is too I believe.. Which sounds nice but in reality, like you said, it means you get a steady stream of bots. I have no idea how many active people follow me, but it's surely not 15k humans.

Lol she would fit right in as part of one of those slightly off old paintings

White cat sitting in a chair and staring at colors on paper.

Ajani seems displeased with my doodles.

Inktober Day 5, "Deer": The Peryton is a creature which first appeared in the "Book of Imaginary Beings", inspired by medieval heraldry. Though they appear as seen, they cast the shadow of a human, their preferred prey. According to D&D, they particularly enjoy dining on the heart of their victim. 🦌

I started this piece a good while ago with just the line drawing. The board was put aside and then moved about, getting a bit abused. I challenged myself to fix it and finish it. It’s finally done. Almost. 😂

My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊

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Very cool to see the differences side by side!

It's beautiful! I get happy like a child every time I find a random feather ^^

A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart

Illustration of a Mattiphus shield bug (Mattiphus reflexus)

#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #shieldbug

illustration of a trio of colorful, patterned walrus heads clustered together on plain white background: red/purple facing left @ top left, green/blue facing right @ top right, yellow/orange facing right @ bottom center

#ThreeForThursday :
Pauojoungie Saggiak (Inuit; Iqaluit, NU, b.1959)
Adorned #Walruses
Cape Dorset, 2022
Etching & Aquatint on Arches White paper 61 x 74 cm (24 x 29 in.)
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#InuitArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt #ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists

I love fall in Animal Crossing, so I wanted to draw one of my favs, Goldie reading a cozy book 🐶📗

#goldie #fall #autumn #animalcrossing #ACNH #nintendo #fanart #art #traditionalart

Mossy rock in a forest with orange and red fall leaves surrounding it

A zoomed out view of the same rock

I love finding solitary mossy rocks like this, I always want to paint them with something sitting on top. Feel free to use this as an art reference, if you do I'd love to see.

4 Ghosts // mixed media on cotton paper

#lemurs #nightwatchers

New work with words by Shakespeare. I really hope you like it.

Beautiful forms and color!

An extinct giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia stands in a clearing among trees and bushes.

Qilin tungurensis- A newly identified new genus of giraffe from the Miocene of Inner Mongolia, China.

We were lucky to meet up with this shrew (Vagrans?) yesterday in the 🇨🇦Rockies. Video is the very best way to illustrate the energy these teeny mammals need to exert to make a non-stop living. #mammals

Monochrome drawing of a rhinoceros on tan paper. Light is coming from the right, with most of the rhino in shade with detailed skin. There are claw marks in front of its eye, and a bird is perched on top. The background is rendered in a simpler style.

Survivor
11x14" charcoal (black and white) on toned paper
Just finished today.. this medium works well for gray animals :)
#drawing #sciart

Who’s your favorite? The thick skull dinosaur or the horned Dinos? I love all bony-shelf skull dinosaurs equally.

Illustration from my book DINOSAURS 🦕📚

Preorder here: a.co/d/ehVr8DJ

#dinosaurs #paleoart #sciart #evolution #fossiladdict

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite!

Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time

buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4

#prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil

Yess it would also normally be mushroom season here but it's been very dry so I barely saw any 😢

They're so cute!

Mossy rock in a forest with orange and red fall leaves surrounding it

A zoomed out view of the same rock

I love finding solitary mossy rocks like this, I always want to paint them with something sitting on top. Feel free to use this as an art reference, if you do I'd love to see.

Those are a great idea too.

Something like that could be great if treated like a daily sketch or warmup, and ink can help build line confidence. Not sure how it was intended at first, but the nature of posting it meant there definitely came to be a social pressure to make amazing daily drawings.

Very kind, thank you. It can be difficult to use the medium in a way that doesn't just create a gray blob, but also isn't too contrasting.

Thanks!!

Thank you very much :)

Process (2)
For the brightest lights I used white charcoal pencil, and for the reflected light in the shadows I mixed the white and black charcoal which gives it a comparatively cool tone compared to the paper. (The paper color got pretty washed out in the WIP photos)