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CassWArt 🌴

@casswart.bsky.social

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Game Dev 15yr+, Production Artist, Traditional / Digital trained Illustrator, Foodie, Chalk + Mural Artist. Focusing on Art, Science and Life! Good vibes! 🌞🎨🐦☕ [ she/her ] [ 🚫 AI / NFT ] 🌳: linktr.ee/casswart 📺: https://www.twitch.tv/casswart

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hey #PortfolioDay! 🎉

I'm Cass, an indie Dev Production Artist, and a traditional / digitally trained illustrator. I like focusing on nature ( birds especially ) and science-related artworks.

Looking for more science illustration publication work in 2025

🧵 of work
For more: linktr.ee/casswart

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 2d

Showing off print proofs (and fixing some things) live on stream today! Just picked these up and trying to get them ready to go in time for #TwitchCon / #lightboxexpo !
Twitch.tv/kaseysnowart

Also finalizing my Dinovember prompt list on stream, so come get a sneak peek!

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Charzea @charzea.bsky.social · 2d

#birdart #watercolorart #birds #art #sciart

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 5d

awe thank yous! I wanted to create something dynamic with the faces facing forward, swimming towards the viewer. Took a bit to get the pose. I usually draw bottlenose dolphins. Anatomy wise, it's neat to learn about the differences. ^^

CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 5d

Draw, paint, write and talk about it!
Share with your friends!

For more ways to help and get involved, please read about the Vaquita Conservation Society!

porpoise.org/save-the-vaq...

Save the Endangered Vaquita - Porpoise Conservation Society

The vaquita is the smallest cetacean, and the most critically endangered marine mammal on the planet. If conservation actions are not successful, it might go extinct within the next couple of years.

porpoise.org

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 5d

Thanking @kaseysnow.bsky.social for advocating for the vaquita!

She organized a bunch of streamers on Twitch to raise awareness and donations to save the vaquita!

I signed up for Sun, Nov 2nd at 8am MST, 10am EST on Twitch. Save the date!

#TwitchStreamer #TwitchEvents #TwitchArtist

Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 7d

The event calendar for the Save the Vaquita Week event on Twitch is live! It will be Nov 2 - 8! Spread the word and check out these awesome streamers here:
tinyurl.com/2pw5su9z

Note: There may be more streamers added throughout Oct and after my #TwitchCon panels, so stay tuned!

#SaveTheVaquita

Save the Vaquita Week - Event Schedule

tinyurl.com

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 5d

Big news for the vaquita porpoise, the most endangered sea mammal! 💙

The time is now to come together to try and save these animals! I believe fully art can help bring awareness.

Join us on Oct 25th for Save the Vaquita Day!

#SaveTheVaquita #SciArt #MarineMammals

Sketch Comp illustration for a small black and gray marked marine mammal called the Vaquita.

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Heather 🌻 @heatherfranzen.bsky.social · 6d

Drawlloween 2. My Familiar. A black billed magpie 🔥

✒️ Fountain pen inks. Pentel Pocket Brush Pens.

#art #aceo
#inktober
#mdwc25d2
#mabsdrawlloweenclub
#mabsdrawlloweenclub2025
#sciart 🪶

Holding a card with an ink drawing of a black billed magpie perched on a post. Lots of bright orange in the background, looking splotchy and like flames.

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Kierstin Keller @gsstudios907.bsky.social · 6d

Phantom of the Sea Lilies — deep-sea Antimora fish swims among golden sea lilies (stalked crinoids, animals related to sea stars and urchins) and spindly stalks of orange coral

#deep-sea #sciart #natureillustration #deepseaart #deepseacreatures

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Bri @circadiancrunch.bsky.social · 6d

Mountain lion sketch for Transition Habitat
And... some buckwheat and beavertail and lichens. I streamed this one, and thanks to all the ppl who hung out with me~

Also, this is some #NearbyNature2025
Famously, THE big predator of Southern California.

#sciart #mountainlion #art #sketch #puma

A sketch of a Mountain Lion! (Puma concolor)
Perched on some rocks as you would expect to find in the desert on inselburgs or fluvial fans that carry big rocks down mountainsides, particularly in ecotones where deserts meet mountains.

The rocks themselves have some lichen growing on them, a small california buckwheat, and a little beavertail cactus poking out too.

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Annie Shao Art @annieshaoart.bsky.social · 6d

#Birdtober Day 2: Venezuelan Troupial

I had a lot of fun drawing him a cactus perch. Since the prompt list has a lot of birds I'm unfamiliar with, I decided to write the scientific name on each of these going forward.

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtYear #Copic #AnimalArt #Birdtober2025

Marker drawing of a Venezuelan Troupial perched on the top of a cactus. 3 Copic markers are photographed below the drawing

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Iveta's Aviary @ivetasaviary.bsky.social · 7d

Venezuelan Troupial #birdtober

This stunning oriole is the national bird of Venezuela, which makes its name particularly fitting.
This time I loosened up a little bit, and also used some half-dry copic marker I found among my art supplies. I like how it subtly smudged my hatching. #birdart 🪶 🐡 🎨

Two black and white sketches of a Venezuelan Troupial in a sketchbook

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John Cadera @jgcadera.bsky.social · 7d

Wallcreeper with Apollo caterpillar.
#birdart #milliput

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Kasey Snow @kaseysnow.bsky.social · 9d

Want to help spread the word about the vaquita?
I made a shirt for that!
And some stickers and other stuff: kaseysnow-shop.fourthwall.com

I'll be wearing this to #TwitchCon and during my #SaveTheVaquita stream when I get back from Cali!

#vaquita

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KerryOnArt @kerryon.bsky.social · 7d

Birdtober has begun!
#owl 🪶
#BirdToberclub
#BirdToberClub2025
#DailySketch
@kaylafiskbirds.bsky.social

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 7d

Same. Over the summer I went back and binge watched previous videos and got hooked.

Started with Wildemount Wildlings.

It was the break I needed to end my doom scrolling habits, letting myself enjoy something again and now having something to look forward to.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 15d

It’s almost time for the 2025 edition of the #SpacetoberChallenge! I haven’t created an account for the challenge here on this app yet, but please still share your art here with the hashtag. I would love to see all your cosmic creations! 🧡

#SciArt #SpaceArt

Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, 30: Galaxy, 31: Future

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CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 7d

Animal Awareness days Google Calendar view!

Special thanks to
@fainder.bsky.social
for going through and updating the list to port over to a calendar view! Even more ways to keep track!

Google Calendar - Sign in to Access & Edit Your Schedule

Access Google Calendar with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

calendar.google.com

CassWArt 🌴 @casswart.bsky.social · 7d

Animal Awareness Days for October 🎃👻🍂

Oct is packed full of art prompts and awareness days! Best of luck ya'll!

As always, Mark your calendars! Plan accordingly.
Google Sheets Webpage Link: tinyurl.com/3vh22kn6

#AnimalDayCal2025 #AnimalDayCal #AnimalArtists

Animal Awareness Calendar graphic and dates for October. A URL is provided for the text file.

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orsomoretti.bsky.social @orsomoretti.bsky.social · May 1

Bohlinia attica- prehistoric giraffid, miocene of Europe.

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Sami Kelsh is a tired bear @samikelsh.bsky.social · 11d

so happy for this jackdaw who had their favourite DS9 fanfictions bound into classy dark academia looking tomes, so they can look fancy while reading about their blorbos
(nothing about this post is semi-autobiographical)

ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop

#birdart #darkacademia #cuteart #booksky #art

Art print of a watercolour painting of a jackdaw bird perched on a stack of antiquarian books. The bird has a mysterious smile and very pretty black plumage.

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Charzea @charzea.bsky.social · 11d

Wow it was very fun to work on this beautiful green woodpecker!
#birds #BirdWhisperer
#sciart
#art #birdart #digitalart

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Luther Wells @ultraluther.bsky.social · 10d

Best Animal.

#mantisshrimp #crustacean #arthropod #sciart #art

A digital drawing of a Peacock Mantis Shrimp

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 10d

Back underwater, we find the Kem Kem's resident freshwater plesiosaur! This animal is known from a couple adult specimens and one youngster. Size comparison below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

Brown countershaded leptocleidid with a yellow head

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 10d

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite!

Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time

buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4

#prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil

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tapdancing-potato.bsky.social @tapdancing-potato.bsky.social · 11d

Day 16 - Secretary bird ( again, Love our silly diva)

#art | #nature | #SciArt

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