Sketching some dragons

Happy new year gift. A long ago I wanted to do a skeleton for Prestosuchus... I started doing some tests on it for fun.

A snowflake eel CT scanned skeleton. it has scary extra jaws behind its skull that look like a bow with teeth.

Finally have time to upload things to Sketchfab.

Here's the dead eel I found at an aquarium store!

Thanks to the generosity of the store owner, everyone can see the scary extra jaws these guys have!

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Time to reveal this thing.
Felt the old dragon was frustrating to do, so i tried a different idea and made it more serpentine.

Illustration of a pfeilstorch (stork with an arrow in its neck), overlaid with stylized air mail and postal markings describing various details about the pfeilstorch.

special delivery

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Great Shearwater from above over the sea. A large shearwater with a dark cap, white collar and across upper tail coverts and pale scallops on scapulars and wing coverts

Great Shearwater from above over the sea, low over the waves

Garfish leaping clear of the sea fleeing Tuna. Long streamlined silvery fish with a very pointy snout

Some more Scilly pics from way back on 6 Oct pelagic. Great Shearwater (awesome as ever) and Garfish fleeing the Blue-fin Tuna that we saw but was too quick for a pic. #ukbirding #psl #fish

Little Firecrest bird sitting on a branch. Autumn colours on the background.

This little oil painting always gives me autumn vibes. I love the warm colours and that's why autumn is my favorite season.
#birdart #birds #SciArt #wildlifeart

Cryptoctober Day 30: Underwater Abominable Snowman

During a dive near the Bahamas, diver Bruce Mounier encountered a bizarre creature with a long neck and a monkey-like face. It rotated its head around like a snake to watch the man before speeding off

🎨NemoralisArt

A portrait from the head to the neck of the dragon Kinseviing (my representation on internet). They are an easter/western dark blue dragon mix with beautiful feathers, two long horns and dark lizard-like stripes across the body. Their eyes are a vivid orange, and so is the little crest of fins upon their head, their head looks somewhat armored with an array of scales, plates and spikes and two short whiskers trail from their snout

close up of the same image for more scale details

#art #dragon #sona #artistonbsky #digitalart
Kinseviing

sorry, reupload because I forgot the tags

New monster design, and for once not a realistic creature.

A Mississippi kite flies overhead with a butterfly in its talons

The Birds Feed just passed 14k likes 🤯 you know what time it is… post celebratory birb! 🎉🪶

Spectacular views of this Red Kite at various locations in the south Mainland of Shetland today. A rare species this far north with <50 records. Pic as it drifted north over the home patch of Loch of Hillwell this afternoon.

#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife

A tiny, cream and yellow feathered bird with a long, straight beak, dark feet, and black-tipped feathers on the wings and tail. It is shown alongside the silhouette of a human hand, showing it to be small enough to perch on a thumb.

A New Age of Reptiles Preview: The Masked Bitsybird!

The Bitsybirds, tiny neognaths found across Eurasia and Africa, are the smallest of all birds in the New Age of Reptiles. Comparable in size to the bee hummingbirds of our timeline, they subsist on a diet of small insects, fruits, and sap. (1/6)

Brown Pelicans skimming the water looking for fish. Albany Mudflats, San Francisco Bay, Albany, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Back at it AGAIN

Finally saw our local Eurasian Nightjar feeding along a group of bats last night.

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

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Wallcreeper. Coloured pencil & acrylic on paper

One of two Hummingbird Hawkmoths I've been lucky enough to see in the south Mainland of Shetland this week. A scarce migrant to our northern shores, these tiny 'flying bullets' boast a wingbeat speed of up to 80 beats a second!

#Leptember #teammoth #UKWildlife

54 secs of tit*-mania

*Blue, Great, and Long-Tailed 🥰

🪶🪶🪶🐍

All current projects I'm doing, or continuing. None finished, as usual, but I will work again on them at some point.
#aliens #skullart #dragons #rodan

A portrait sketch of a hooded grebe done with markers

Macá tobiano / Hooded grebe
_Podiceps gallardoi_

#sciartseptember 9: vanishing

#aves #avesargentinas #dibujo #drawing #sketch #sketchingnature #naturesketching #naturejournaling #naturejournal #wildlife #boceto #cuadernodebocetos #ebird #ebirdargentina

Surprised to see my tyrannosaurus silhouette in this paper. Easily the only good thing to come out of my old dino "research" (as bad as it was tbh).

A small bird with soft gray plumage sits perched on a mossy rock. Its head and upperparts are a darker slate-gray, while its throat, chest, and belly are a lighter silvery-gray, giving a fluffy appearance. The bird has a short, thin beak, dark eyes, and delicate black legs and feet gripping the rock, with a blurred brownish background behind it.

I love the little birds that don't get any attention. The Torrent Tyrannulet is a very special little flycatcher that spends its whole life hunting insects on the edges of fast-moving rivers. At first, they look like bits of foam or spray at the edge of the water.

#birds #costarica

Nice to see my opinion piece on moa 'de-extinction' published in the latest issue of the @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social magazine. Thanks to those who helped give this article wings...you know who you are.

Two Chinese geese on a purple background with some stars around them

Portrait of the champion Chinese geese I saw at the state fair

#birdart 🪶

Cormorán imperial
_Leucocarbo atriceps_

#sciartseptember (some days late)
1. Islet

#sciart #sketchingnature #nature #naturejournaling #birds

Alien 'skulls' sketches

An illustration featuring a shoal of whale sharks gliding through the sky in an old Romanian town.

Made a new piece only to realize that today is #whalesharkday 🦈 🦊 😀