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Frith Chronicles Bestiary Drawings by Ognjen Sporin

#ohhh lovely #inspiration for sure

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MANTISES

#i adore how you did the eyes on the head shot #like ohhh that looks so good. i’ve always struggled with mantis eyes. may try doing something like that next time

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For one of our external art test (uni project time!), we were given a brief to redesign Baba Yagas Hut in a folk horror setting. I focused on exploring how her hut would exist in a modern setting such as a subway, and visualising that transformation (admittedly straying away from the brief a teensy lil bit)

#adore the colours and textures going on here… so juicy

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bunnes

#bnuuy!! #wonderful

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I guess this is sorta a re-upload? anyhow. tetras and kin! hopefully i can move onto drawing catfish and miscellaneous fish next

#FISH FISH FISH FISH FISH #literally so good. such a great understanding of anatomy whilst adding lots of personality and stylising them #i love each and every one of them

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her ruby eye, wings of pearl

Collared doves aren't the most exotic or beautiful birds, but I'm sure they make a great meal for local raptors, and I think that's wonderful

#amazing #the colours here are so gorgeous. the sky??? the purple-blue is so dramatic i love it #and the rendering on the branches in particular is astonishing. their place in space is easy to tell and they genuinely feel 3d

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I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

#utterly gorgeous #i remember seeing a breakdown where ares is the soldier/civilian’s view of war - anger and violence #whilst athena is the general’s view of war - strategy #captured that very well here. amazing stuff!

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fish

#the textures here are insane #and the messy shapes… #utterly gorgeous those really are fish huh

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sunlight

#birdg

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An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

#this is the first time i have ever seen this image and now i will be thinking about it for the rest of my life

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Cheetah turntable renders

#so well made the shapes are lovely #and the patterns! #how the back is so dark it fades into the background… the bright white eyes… ohhh lovely

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Forces of nature 🍃

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#utterly gorgeous #and its animated too! #i love everything about this just mmmm so good!

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#shep #the fur style is gorgeous #and big curly horns! those rock

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We know little about the deep sea environments of the Mesozoic but one place where we can get a glimpse into this world is the Münsterland basin. We have here several localities that preserved shallow and deep water animals side by side, caused by underwater landslides. These carried stuff from the rim of the basin and buried them in the deep with other material that was down there.

Tachynectes here is a very early lanternfish. Flattened lanternfishes are no longer a thing these days and we actually have lanternfishes from these localities that show their photophores preserved. We know where they glowed!

#this art is gorgeous and definitely inspiration for something im working on #and also ohhh i need to research into this stuff. looks fascinating. lovely fossils

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so i played dredge. minecraft salmon…

#i love them #the fisheys in the ocean

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still doodling

#you draw animals with such scribblyness and charm #they feel like animals but still have so much personality #and the demon lady is cool as well #i am very envious of your hatching abilities lol #amazing work!

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"Do I really look like that??"

#that ball python looks UNCANNILY like mine LOL #jumpscare to see them. i was like. huh? what is my snake doing in that post? #very cute snake!