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29 ✦ they/them ✦ director, art director in animation field ✦ doing paleo and expedition art. i love pterosaurs!!

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 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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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 25d

AHHH i love your style so much ;_; the way you draw emotions in both face and just body language is so good

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

🤍🤍🤍

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ty!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

No, just Tom this time 😌

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you so much!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you!🤍

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 3

Because I like their paintings?

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ty!!🤍

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yeah I get it 😭 and this shit is getting hard to ignore cuz it's just everywhere now :(

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you!! There's some info in alt that it's him :)

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's alr they do look similar x)

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

that's actually not Henry this time :D

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you! It will get better eventually :)

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ye that's him! Thank you 🤍

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 28

It is an actor ye, but he and Henry look very much alike :)

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 27

Nothing here is kcd2 actually! But thank you :)

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 27

🤍🤍🤍

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ty!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thank you!!

avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thank you!!
The original painting of the one on top (and the middle one too) was done by Arkhip Kuindzhi, i just studied it a little. His paintings are amazing