Haha I think the nature nerds/LOTR nerds Venn diagram is almost a perfect circle.

Hah, fair call! Horse anatomy is tricky as!

#SciArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship

Obviously going to be a Lord of the Rings take on this prompt for me. The emperor gum moth was the species that Gandalf speaks to in the film, calling Gwaihir to his rescue from Orthanc.

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Haha definitely! I get the same feeling when there’s really nice light that I’m trying to replicate in the painting, just want to make it pop ☀️

#SciArtSeptember Day 18: Depths

Sketch of an Australian sea lion. These guys dive surprisingly deep in search of food, with bulls reaching depths of 150m - one sea lion was even recorded at 250m!

#sealbay #sealion #sciart #marinelife

So much movement and energy in your brushwork, adds so much life to your work 🙌

Thank you so much!

#SciArtSeptember Day 17: Trawl

Sketches of yellowfin tuna.

Look I'll be honest this is really troll, as in trolling with lures or bait behind a boat, rather than trawl. Back on to the actual prompts tomorrow 🤞

#SciArt #FishArt #MarineLife

For sure! The colouration is just too good not to paint as well, all those blues and purples!

painting of a swift circled by floating ivy vines

broken grasp • 11”x14” • gouache & watercolor on paper

Your sketch was wonderful too! Amazing how subtle the differences are between the false and true cleaner wrasse.

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift

Quick sketch of the Casper octopus, an as yet undescribed species first recorded in deep water off the coast of Hawaiʻi by Schmidt Ocean Institute oceanographers.

#sciart #oceanart #octopus

Colored pencil drawing of the false cleaner fish. The side view shows a slender fish that is yellow graduating into blue with a black stripe down the middle. The front few shows the absolute chompers on this little bad boy, which are used for causing problems.

For mimic, the false cleanerfish who pretends to be cute and innocent and “ohhh here I’ll just clean you” and then CHOMP with those wicked fangs #SciArtSeptember #SundayFishSketch

#sciart and #sundayfishsketch too!

#SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic and Day 15: Spawn

The first is a sheet of studies of the cleaner wrasse, whose mimic, the false cleaner wrasse was illustrated by @behrenskristen.bsky.social (beat me to it!).

The second is the giant clam, which can broadcast spawn 500 million eggs at a time!

Process video

#sciart for the feed 🐡

#SciArtSeptember Day 13: Bottleneck

Saltwater crocodiles were hunted to near extinction in Queensland, especially after the Second World War, and up until 1974 when the practice was outlawed. Populations are now recovering, and it’s a privilege to coexist with these incredible animals.

Simple illustration of a golden jackal - a fluffy, coyote-like canid with rufous and blue-grey fur - standing on a field of yellow grass with a pale blue background. The jackal looks like it has stopped mid-stride to look at the viewer.

#SciArtSeptember 12 - Wandering

Adolescent golden jackals can wander thousands of kilometers while searching for a mate and a place to settle to.

They used to only occur in southeastern Europe, but recently, they have been turning up all over the place: Netherlands, Finland, even northern Norway.

#SciArtSeptember day 12: Wandering

Leaves and seed of the Cassowary plum. Cassowaries have a critical role in the dispersal of many rainforest plants. As they wander the rainforest they leave behind scats brimming with seeds ready to germinate.

#sciart #cassowary

Haha thank you! Really appreciate that :)

Thank you so much!

Illustration of a female goitered gazelle, a small light brown antelope-like animal, drawn after photos taken in Korkeasaari Zoo, Helsinki. It's standing in front of a round background featuring a messy painterly depiction of its' natural habitat: brown earth, blue distant hills and grey sky.

#SciArtSeptember 10 - Tawny

Not all gazelles live in Africa! Goitered gazelle is native to a vast area from Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan through central Asia all the way to northwestern China and Mongolia.

Though widespread, its' population is in steep decline due to poaching and habitat loss.

the Tawny Frogmouth for the #sciartseptember prompt Tawny. Always super interested in animals that can mimic their environment to some capacity.

#SciArtSeptember Day 11: Venomous

A few grayscale head studies of the rough-scaled snake (Tropidecus carinatus), one of the venomous snakes of North Queensland.

#sciart #snakeart

Really like the pop of the orange eye!

And #sciart for the feed!

Day 10 of #SciArtSeptember - Tawny

study of the longfin eel (Anguilla reinhardtii). Pretty common sight in creeks on the east coast of Australia. When ready to spawn, they travel downstream, and make their way to the Coral Sea to spawn.

Photo used for the study by David Paul / Museums Victoria

#SciArtSeptember Day 9: Vanishing

A rendering of the carapace of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas). Sculpted in Blender and hand-painted in Substance Painter.

Turtles are under threat globally due to climate change, sea level rise, predation by feral animals, the development of coastal areas.

#SciArtSeptember Day 8: Niche

A compilation of head studies of the striated heron - an important predator of fish and invertebrates in its habitat.

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