Siberian Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita tristis), a small bird perchs in a reed bed. Its beige feathers are fluffed up from wind. Its dark brown flight and tail feathers are fringed lemony. Its eye is dark and the lower beak is bright yellow.
main reference
pen drawing of Siberian Chiffchaff
drawing local Siberian Chiffchaff
pen on paper drawings of the ammonites Diplomoceras, Nipponites, Mariella and Hypoturrilites. Drawings are simple pen outlines with grayish shading.
heteromoprh ammonite sketches! trying out new brush pens and gray pens to practice for new painting.
based heavily on art by Satoshi Utsunomiya
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)
Reference photo
a colorful digital painting of a large gannet. The style is loose and blocky. It sits on a bed of flowers, thistle and grass, with a blue sea stretching beyond it.
a quick 1 hr study on Procreate. Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) taken at RSPB Bempton Cliffs
Cover design for Issue 2 of Uni of Edinburgh PalaeoSoc’s magazine, AEONS. The theme is “Prehistoric Islands” and I painted Hateg Island.
pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a European robin
pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a Eurasian blue tit in flight
more brawings (bird drawings) familiarizing myself with passerine anatomy and wing feathers in particular
A digital painting of a blue damselfly resting on a broken grass stem
A damselfly I painted many years ago to see if I could, and as an attempt to see if there was a market for stock images of invertebrates. A few such images actually lead to work!
#SciArt #Illustration #Art
A vintage watercolor plate style digital painting of a Christmas tree decorated by various pink birds and a twelve-wired bird of paradise as the star. The pink birds are: Japanese waxwing, Anna’s hummingbird, purple finch, Phillippine dwarf kingfisher, pink robin, Eurasian bullfinch, rose robin, Chilean flamingo, black rosy-finch, Jambu fruit dove and galah.
I drew my friend a natural history illustration-style painting of a Christmas tree decorated in birds of her favorite color, pink! I chose birds from a wide range of families that are pink - otherwise it would've just ended up being a finch tree.
Which one's your favorite?
a procession of glowing golden plesiosaurs drift across a road through a conifer forest
pictures I painted at 3 am
3/4 „Procession“
It was done in 20 minutes! The point of the exercise was to be quick, so I'd say i succeeded!
A digital drawing of a bathawk (Macheiramphus alcinus) watercolor portrait
Quick bathawk study
Paper and pencil field sketches and notes of Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), with notes on winter juvenile features
Paper and pencil drawings of female and male Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) with notes of sex features. A pinned bee drawing is also on the page.
Pencil and paper drawing of White (pied) wagtail (Motacilla alba) with labels of wing feathers.
I. B Drawin II
sketchbook field and photo ref drawings of birds!!
Thank you! I don't, but I wish I did.
Print of some really weird birds… (drawn for a friend)
well
Spurred on by new pterosaur paper. I‘ve been meaning to draw something like this for a while now and I wanted to get it down on paper. Pretty rough, may or may not clean it up later on.
pencil drawings of local birds + brown creeper!!!
Trying out Procreate‘s new watercolor brushes… I‘m in love!
A drawing of a woodpecker surrounded by birch trees.
Woodpecker 🪶
#illustration #birdsky #nature #animalart
i must have replied to the wrong post but yes thank you i am 🙂↕️
me at Superman
There‘s more than just pterosaurs that call this habitat home. Take a closer look - how many creatures can you find?
close, but that’s almost halfway there!
Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.) "It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"
New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs
www.patreon.com/posts/132334...
there's so many! have you found all the little creatures?
you always have the words
omg this was not supposed to go up without alt text or a caption wtf Bluesky 😭😭
seeing this post right as i down a lukewarm coffee on the stand 🙂↕️