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Blue Appaloosa

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3d printing for SciComm (and fun) Animal Anatomy Sometimes GameDev Former adjunct Too many pets 3d Prints (from USA): blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com Merch: blueappaloosa.threadless.com Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa Links: blueappaloosa.neocities.org

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!

Etsy: blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

#PaleoArt #BSNM #ArtShop #Invertebrates

Two 3d printed tiktaalik skulls. On the left, smaller, white colored, mouth closed, facing camera. On the right, larger, tan colored, mouth propped open with a stick, facing right-ish.

A 3d printed model for demonstrating the cranial kinesis (movement) of a hawk skull, with different parts in different colors.

A musk deer (a deer-like animal with large upper fangs) skull, tan colored, facing left.

Two 3d printed Lined Earwig designs. The earwig is an insect with a reddish head and thorax, a dark abdomen with pincers on the end, tan legs and a pair of tan stripes down the back. Each earwig has a 1-inch (2.5cm) split ring though the abdomen. The left design is facing upish, the right design is facing down. In between them is a US penny for scale.

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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1m

They've got plenty of bone in the "forehead", where khutu is supposedly taken from. They're enormous (the bird supposedly ate elephants). They would've been seen washed up on the shore and decaying (it crashes on islands and it's flesh putrefies).

I'm no expert here tho; just late-night musings.

Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1m

Hear me out. Whale skulls are weird looking. And if I saw one without a broad knowledge of animal anatomy, I might assume it's from a bird.

Look at this sperm whale skull. Many whales lack teeth too.

(pic by Ulli 2mecs, CC-BY-SA-4.0 at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... )

Photo of a sperm whale skeleton, front/side-ish view. The skull long and pointed, kinda like a bird beak.

Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 1m

So I've been reading Chris Lavers' "Natural History of Unicorns"; and am at the part about "khutu". It's likely that "khutu" got applied to bits of horn/bone/tooth of at several different animals. One them being a huge bird that dies and it's flesh putrefies. Could this be a washed up whale carcass?

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RAVioli 🥟🌿 @unravy.bsky.social · 2h

Hello #portfolioday! I'm a creature concept artist and occasionally an illustrator! I particularly love making mothdragons 🌿⭐

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Fiona Cross @drspidernz.bsky.social · 3h

It's been a lovely #Arachtober so far - sharing spider cognition research at a special Arachtober evening (where I made everyone wish each other a Happy Arachtober), plus legendary spider socks and sparkly spiders. Arachtober is the gift that keeps on giving! 🕷#LoveSpiders

Talking about amazing predators in Kenya, like lions and the legendary Portia (jumping spider)

A special notice wishing everyone a Happy Arachtober - "the month of spiders. May it be a wonderful month for you!"

Legendary black socks complete with a pink jumping spider

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Ham O' Ween 🎃🌈🎨 @thehamofficial.bsky.social · 6h

Hey #portfolioday !

My name is Ham, I like to draw creatures in bright colors, especially those which are silly and mildly cursed.

I'm looking for work starting Nov 1st. If you'd like to discuss a project before then, feel free to contact me through my website 😊
thehamofficial.com

#art #queerart

A pair of green cartoon frogs kissing passionately in front of a rainbow with the words "gay frogs" above and below them

Drawing of a smiling but concerned looking sun wearing bit pink and green sunglasses and throwing up a peace sign. The sun is coming out of a setof blobby holes colored with colorful 90's pattern looking shapes (teal, pink, purple, yellow) with the words "existential dread" in purple all around it

Painting of a bunch of colorful flowers growing together in a mass. A silly looking cartoon bee with outward facing eyeballs is landed among them, licking a flower intensely with pollen all over its face

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 22h

#PortfolioDay hi, I'm Patsu and I'm a fantasy illustrator!
📧: [email protected]
or direct message me for commission inquiries!

Digital painting of a winged centaur. He has curly hair and facial beard, and his horse half is white, and extremely furry. His human half is covered in tattoos and white body hair, and he is wielding a mace/hammer weapon that is in the shape of a horse head.

Digital painting of a pterosaur-like beast called "Wyvern Of The Sea". Its head, neck and upper torso is mostly white, it has a long yellow bill with sharp tips similar to a snapping turtle, a crest on top of its top beak, and an expandable pouch on its throat, similar to a pelican. There is a voluminous pouch of expandable sac around its neck and chest, similar to a Frigatebird, but it seems more decorative than functional. Its lower torso is a black color, with strong bird legs, that have blue webbed feet, similar to the bird Booby. Its tail is long, with fins running on its side, and on its tips.

It has wings that are more webbed than they are feathered, with a protruding thumb similar to a bat's, and three noticeable digits that are flat than they are wiry. It seems this creature is more reptilian and hydrodynamic, than it is avian and capable of flight.

Digital painting of an elegant merman. There is a glow of royal blue coming out of a cavity in middle of his upper torso in the middle that extends to his abdomen, and out of two columns of holes in his bottom portion. His tail seems to be a hollow flesh and the blue magic extends out to form his fish tail. There is a royal blue sword on top of the character; the sword is slim and sharp, and the blade is sculpted to have an impaled fish on its end.

fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attract butterflies.

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Anna Podedworna @akreon.bsky.social · 18h

how it started vs how it ended

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 1d

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape

Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 6h

#Paleoctober2025 day 13 and 14 paleoart sketches with the early stick grasshopper Eoproscopia and the strange shaped coelacanth Allenypterus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Eoproscopia #Allenypterus

The Early Cretaceous stick grasshopper perched on a giant horsetail. It has well developed wings.

The lobe-finned fish swimming in the Late Carboniferous tropical shallows.

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CuttleDreams 🪱🪳 @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 6h

Took me a hot minute but I'm finally back in the game 🥓 #Invertober

1: Japanese Sea Nettle
2: Red-banded Leafhopper
3: Giant Green Anemone

Three drawings of arthropod animals in squared formats. The first is a gold and brown jellyfish, the second a red and blue leafhopper, and the third a cluster of green sea anemones in various states of retraction.

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Cosmopoliturtle @cosmopoliturtle.bsky.social · 16h

✨wow #PortfolioDay wow!✨

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Janaina @janainaart.bsky.social · 12h

Hello! I'm a Brazilian artist and freelance illustrator. My work is inspired by fairy tales and myths ✨ #PortfolioDay

✦ Portfolio, Patreon, email, IG, shop & more: janainaart.carrd.co

Illustration of Odette surrounded by swans under the moonlight, a scene inspired by the Swan Lake ballet.

Tamamo, a fox spirit in Japanese mythology.

Illustration inspired by the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats.

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🦎 LIZARDBETH 🎨 @lizardbethart.bsky.social · 5h

Of course I'm late for #portfolioday, oops ^_^

I'm Lizardbeth, but you can call me Liz or Beth (either is fine), I'm an artist and I stream 4 days a week on twitch!

vgen.co/lizardbethart <- commissions
twitch.tv/lizardbethart <- streams
linktr.ee/lizardbethart <- everything else!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 8h

I didn’t have time to paint this guy today but I REAAAAALLY wanted to so I made it happen. He’s just a little guy!! 🥹

I think I need to do the series of hummingbirds I keep thinking about.

#Birdtober day 14 is the Costa’s #Hummingbird.

🪶 🐡 #ArtChallenge #DigitalArt #Art #BirdArt #HumanMadeArt

A digital gouache painting of an extremely small, extremely fluffy brownish and cream hummingbird with intense purple and magenta iridescent feathers bracketing his eyes and face. He has a long beak and looks right at the viewer, his super teeny feet gripping a thin branch. Foliage and flowers against a blue sky fill the background. His wings are folded in rest.

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Lincoln Savi @lincolnsavi.bsky.social · 9h

I painted today! 3D printed Eastern Foxsnake #SciArt #NatureArt #3Dprinting

Realistic and lifelike 3D printed and painted model of an eastern foxsnake

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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DrongoJackBirb_art @drongojackburb.bsky.social · 8h

Koolasuchus cleelandi Illustration!
In this Illustration, I have depicted a scene of koolasuchus making a desperate attempt to flee the dangers of a fellow Koolasuchus. The seasonal flooding has brought new hunting grounds, and so more competition and fights for those hunting ground rights #paleoart

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KeelahButts @cruxfat.bsky.social · 2d

Coworker gave me one of those multicolor pens 🌈
#art #paleoart

A multicolored ren scribble of a dilophosaurus mid jump

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⭐Snek Snack🐍 @sneksnack.bsky.social · 16d

Stickers have been restocked! ✨

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jurassicparkans.bsky.social @jurassicparkans.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing spiderwebs catch the sunlight on my way to work in the mornings, and I can't help but feel like this must have happened sometimes 75 million years ago.

#dinosaurart #paleoart #styracosaurus

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Alejandro Q (EL_INDORAPTOR) @qindotrex.bsky.social · 1d

Camarasaurus lentus

(References below)
#drawing #paleoart #Camarasaurus #camarasauridae

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doha_arts_ @doha-arts.bsky.social · 1d

Paleo pizza carnotaurus wearing a costume

#paleoart #paleoartwork #cartoonartist #cartoonart #cartoonartstyle #myart #myartwork #myartstyle #digitalart #digitalartwork #blueskyartist #illustrationart #carnotaurus #abelisaurdinosuar #Abelisauridaefamily #fanart

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Ty Ty Tiger @ty-ty-tiger.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober day 13 drink a #saber-toothed cat lapping it up #inktober2025 #paleoart #day13 #sciart #sketch

Sketch of a saber-toothed cat getting a drink.

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 23h

it's #portfolioday!

I'm a paleoartist who has been drawing for just over a year. 🦖

I always appreciate new followers and I hope to give confidence to others who are beginning their art journey at a later age, like me! everyone can draw and create. #paleoart

a sketch of a parasaur with foliage in it's mouth

a sketch of two ceratosaurus fighting, kicking up sand as they move

a sketch study of dilophosaurus profiles along with a skull

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