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doing paleo and expedition art. i love pterosaurs!!
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avi šŸŒ§ļø @barghest-land.bsky.social Ā· Jan 16
hello late #PortfolioDay !!
I'm Avi! Full time artist, doing direction (and many other things) in animation, and paleoart in my free time.
I'd be happy to work on scientific illustrations and reconstructions! I do both extant and extinct animals and i'm open for some work rn :)
#sciart #paleoart
A large pterosaur Bogolubovia stands on the beach, framed by the dim light of the sun due to a solar eclipse. The sky feels high and is heavily covered with clouds. A solar halo can be seen - it's getting quite cold, and it might just be this pterosaur's last winter. A digital drawing of Eohippus pair, doing the cute horse thing when they scratch and lick each others back. I thought that they could probably do that as well, like modern horses do now. They're colored light brown, with some white parts and warm shading. Almost all the head is white, they have pink noses and pink little hooves, and the main brown fur on their body is a mix of light and dark hairs, so it's quite contrasted. I actually took some inspo from hares for the colors. They stand on the dark background, a star is shining above them; next to the star are two little horses stylized sort of like cave paintings. It isn't anything i based this reconstruction of (also, it was too early for eohippus to be painted like this), just a little thing i wanted to try. A digital drawing of Psittacosaurus sibiricus. There are three of them, running to the left, on a light beige background, all in different poses to study their anatomy in motion. One of them, in the middle, is a male - colored green, with bright red on his head and quills. He's brighter than other two, females, who are colored light brown. They also have a bright spot on the face, but it's yellow and doesn't stand out as much as red on the male. I also gave them just a little, tiny bit of fuzz on the back and neck. It's barely visible and completely speculative, so take it with a grain of salt - I haven't seen it in other reconstructions. Overall, I really like how it turned out. They look silly enough to be good for me A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.
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Ty!
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Some scans with field sketches from this autumn šŸ‚
A scanned sketchbook spread with field sketches. Done with acrilyc markers and a black gel pen. A little landscape, sketches of mushroom and a plant, birds, some text... There are also some uhh, dragonfly wings taped to the page that i found in the sand. And a grasshoper leg (don't worry, it was just a leg that i found) and a little feather. A picture of an actual place can be seen as a background under the sketchbook. A scanned sketchbook spread with field sketches. There is a little landscape with a quarry done with acrylyc markers, and a gel pen drawing as a scheme of its layers. Some sketches of early forming pyrite concretions and also excavators in the quarry (don't ask me what the other thing is for, idk how this little tank called, but apparently they use it to even the floor of the area). As a background behind the sketchbook there is a picture of some rocks and branches. From that exact place, of course!
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Ty!šŸ¤
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Thank you!
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Thank you so much!
October 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A lot of feelings that are more than words

(I guess, in a way, #paleoart)
A digital drawing, few simple drawings on a dark background. From top to the bottom, it starts with half of the Earth seen with its continents being placed like in the Middle Ordovician. Below it is a line, showing a process of life - from one little star, to dividing cells, to an embryo (it's all different creatures - fish, dog, tadpole, and a human). Then, series of little drawings, showing different stages of life in different things. A plant emerging from the soil, a larvae, baby birds with their bright open mouths, pregnant horse with a star on its belly, very old human, and a dry plant in a pot with a leaf falling from it. A fossil of a crinoid can be seen on the background, in some places nicely preserved, in some - scattered around, with segments seen as little stars. The text on the picture says: "Let sunshine touch the memory of me again" Following the previous part of it, from top to the bottom: mammal bones scattered around, a fossil of a trilobite on a rock, human remains, a piece of a fossilized plant, little drawing of an ammonite, a part of a thylacine seen in a little square, and in a square next to it - plate with fossilized fish, being shattered. Below them is a line - an ornitomimus running forward, its fossilized remains, and on the right - same remains, but scattered around in little pieces. The text goes through the drawing, saying "I will remain. I will remain. I will remain" The first phrase is written normally, the second is written fast. The last one is poorly written by my left hand, without looking at the screen.
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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AHHH i love your style so much ;_; the way you draw emotions in both face and just body language is so good
September 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Thank you!!
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Ty!!
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
No, just Tom this time šŸ˜Œ
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Thank you so much!!
September 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Thank you!šŸ¤
September 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Because I like their paintings?
September 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Ty!!šŸ¤
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Thank you!!
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Yeah I get it šŸ˜­ and this shit is getting hard to ignore cuz it's just everywhere now :(
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Having a hard time liking my art atm, even tho i still want to draw stuff. So here are random sketches and studies again
A digital drawing, there are a lot of studies and other little things on one page. Here's a study of a photo of Tom Mckay (can't believe i did it again but he's genuinely fun to draw), study of some plants, kcd2 screenshot (the city one), little studies of oil paintings done by Viktor Vasnetsov and Ivan Shishkin. And a couple of mindless sketches of running wooden horses and um.. Medieval looking snake? Dragon?.. Whatever this thing is.
September 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Thank you!! There's some info in alt that it's him :)
August 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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It's alr they do look similar x)
July 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
barghest-land.bsky.social
that's actually not Henry this time :D
July 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
barghest-land.bsky.social
AHH thank you!! Had such a fun time drawing him tbh, his features are a bit more complicated than i thought. But that means more challenge and it's fun :D
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Thank you! It will get better eventually :)
July 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Ye that's him! Thank you šŸ¤
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
barghest-land.bsky.social
Thank you!!
July 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM