Gormlessly watching my thread fill with elf facts now

I just looked that up and wow that is a real character name, I thought you and Sitrantha were pranking me

Get gorm’d

A gorm day to you!

I am excited to have learned a new word and am dreaming up ways to incorporate it into my daily vocabulary!

The word is "Gormless"! Amazing word!

Underrated reference

#art #animal #drawing #digitalart #cute #nature #water #animalchunks #turtle #reptile #herpetology

Underrated reference

#art #animal #drawing #digitalart #cute #nature #water #animalchunks #turtle #reptile #herpetology

Artemis II's wee red floaties

Can I see this beetle and bauble please?

My software engineer had a discussion with me about whether we were including weather systems in our game and we were both like 'Nah'

Fast forward to today and...on our little tropical island, there are now weather systems!

(+overly-cautious epilepsy warning!)

#gamedev #animation #lightning #art

I draw wings all the time yet still forget that all the different feather sections can move in different ways

#art #animal #bird #cute #gyrfalcon #sciart #animalchunk

I draw wings all the time yet still forget that all the different feather sections can move in different ways

#art #animal #bird #cute #gyrfalcon #sciart #animalchunk

Nice! Thank you

Image depicted is the cover to the webcomic, Amphiox. It's a black cover with criss-crossing blue serpent coils taking up most of the background. The coils writhe around each other with faint glimmers of scales highlighted, before vanishing into darkness. This is a teaser for the beast that will be encountered and explained within the webcomic. Layered over the writing coils of the Amphiox is its tail, oddly centered and still compared to the rest of its body. An amphiox's tail ends in a fin with rounded tips. The fin's color is a bright, bioluminescent gradient composed of yellow fading into bright skyblue, before tapering into a darker cerulean. The tail has vibrating red highlights. It casts a rainbow of highlights onto its own scales. Attached to this tail are two more, lesser pectoral and dorsal fins, in cerulean blue. The pectoral fin pokes out near the tail, and the dorsal fin is further up, and larger. White text overlaid on top: AMPHIOX H. McGIll http://hmcgill.art

Hello new followers! If you're bored and like free webcomics, here's mine!

It's a complete short story about a ruined world full of alternative energy...and magic doom eels.

(Includes detailed transcripts on every page)

amphiox.hmcgill.art/comic/amphio...

#webcomics #amphiox #comics #indie

"Forbidden cracker" lol

Digital cel-shaded art of a Carabus auronitens, a beetle with a rainbow sheen. It's stepping off of an isometric chunk of rotting wood, complete with gross little hairy bits and maybe its own droppings (unclear, I was referencing from a wikipedia photo as well and the bug is surrounded by wet brown dustbunnies of some kind). The beetle itself is mostly a very dark gunmetal teal, which shifts in the light from dark green, to lime green, to limey yellow, to sunburst orange, to molten magenta. It has red accents on the tips of its legs and big red mandibles, too. The beetle is about to politely step off of the wood chunk because it thinks this whole thing is too silly for it to participate. Watermark: http://hmcgil.art

I had a request for a "Bug" based on open source reference photos...so have a Carabus auronitens!

I used research-grade photos by Ludivine Lamare to figure out how the iridescence and anatomy worked. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#art #sciart #nature #bug #beetle #invertebrate #animal

Idle hands, devil's workshop, etc. etc.

Cute analytics: The plays on Tittivillus Teaches Typning tend to spike on weekdays, which indicates people are playing this at work, lol

I had to do it completely different from my normal shading method!

Digital cel-shaded art of a Carabus auronitens, a beetle with a rainbow sheen. It's stepping off of an isometric chunk of rotting wood, complete with gross little hairy bits and maybe its own droppings (unclear, I was referencing from a wikipedia photo as well and the bug is surrounded by wet brown dustbunnies of some kind). The beetle itself is mostly a very dark gunmetal teal, which shifts in the light from dark green, to lime green, to limey yellow, to sunburst orange, to molten magenta. It has red accents on the tips of its legs and big red mandibles, too. The beetle is about to politely step off of the wood chunk because it thinks this whole thing is too silly for it to participate. Watermark: http://hmcgil.art

I had a request for a "Bug" based on open source reference photos...so have a Carabus auronitens!

I used research-grade photos by Ludivine Lamare to figure out how the iridescence and anatomy worked. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#art #sciart #nature #bug #beetle #invertebrate #animal

I think I could get into the habit of daily-ish animal studies like this, if people wanted them!

(Would also be open to volunteered free-to-use shots if there are any indie nature photographers out there who don't mind me selling the resulting art)

#art #sciart #animal #cute #nature

If you like this style of animal, I've got a bunch of extinct animals from last December on 'chunks' too! (Velociraptor is doing the same thing as the Tasmanian devil, incidentally!)

bsky.app/profile/hann...

Yes please! Include any artwork I make based on these photos.

Bug!

Definitely open to the wiggly and the chitinous

I think I could get into the habit of daily-ish animal studies like this, if people wanted them!

(Would also be open to volunteered free-to-use shots if there are any indie nature photographers out there who don't mind me selling the resulting art)

#art #sciart #animal #cute #nature

Digital artwork of a woolly mammoth with a luxurious coat and soulful lashes. She is leaping in victory while some kind of (unseen) volcanic surface lights her glossy fur from underneath. The image has no background. It's just the mammoth because that's all you really need to see here, really.

I'm well aware that elephants cannot jump, but you've never seen a living woolly mammoth in the first place so don't even get started on scientific accuracy here

Character from my game about animals who...jump! On a volcano!

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pleistocene #indie

Same

She blinks slowly

A civilization quivers and falls in her wake

Digital artwork of a woolly mammoth with a luxurious coat and soulful lashes. She is leaping in victory while some kind of (unseen) volcanic surface lights her glossy fur from underneath. The image has no background. It's just the mammoth because that's all you really need to see here, really.

I'm well aware that elephants cannot jump, but you've never seen a living woolly mammoth in the first place so don't even get started on scientific accuracy here

Character from my game about animals who...jump! On a volcano!

#gamedev #art #paleoart #pleistocene #indie