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etheringtonbros.bsky.social
Our feature artist/reference for today is this WONDERFUL page on how to draw WINGS by the talented @jenndeut! I love a model sheet like this, which actually explains WHAT the different wing types DO, not just HOW they LOOK! So useful! #gamedev #animationdev #conceptart #manga
June 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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cinderandpiper.com
Scalloped hammerhead jar glazed and ready to be fired 🔥
~Lance

Shark fact: Its oddly shaped cephalofoil (winged head) may be used for sensory reception, manoeuvering, and prey manipulation.

#pottery #ceramics #art #shark #hammerhead #wip #sciart #clay #sculpture #ocean #animalart #fishyfeb
Ceramic bisqued scalloped hammerhead shark jar glazed and ready for firing in the palm of a hand facing left Ceramic bisqued scalloped hammerhead shark jar glazed and ready for firing in the palm of a hand facing right
February 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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stephbirdart.bsky.social
Realised I never put up these from the sketchbook. From April last year in Hartlepool. Slate-coloured Junco. #UkBirding #birds #birdwatching #birdart #Sciart 🪶
Page of sketches, in watercolour and pencil, of a Slate coloured Junco. A small sparrow like bird with grey upperparts and white belly and undertail and a neat pink bill. Page of sketches, in watercolour and pencil, of a Slate coloured Junco. A small sparrow like bird with grey upperparts and white belly and undertail, and a neat pink bill.
February 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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dadrummond.art
Surely you won’t mind if I flip you over… 🔬
#sciart
The underside of the trilobite, showing dozens of legs and gills, spiny gnathobases at the base of the hypostome for macerating and pulling in food, curled anterior legs, and antennae emerging from alongside the hypostome. All sculpted from scratch (no scans) using extensive reference material, particularly from soft-tissue preservation of Chotecops
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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dadrummond.art
At last we meet…
#sciart
A gray resin model of Eldredgeops rana in my open hand, legs just visible under its shell, antennae waving, over a wooden tabletop.
February 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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joewargamer.bsky.social
I've finished the church ! St Pierre in Normandy. Scratch build from xps , with fantastic 3d printed elements from the talented @sabotag3d.bsky.social . It's almost 3ft long, but modular for storage. Coming to HoL and Salute
February 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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jaimiagray.bsky.social
We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.

www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
A banner image showing CT scans of a collection of 3D rendering of the skeletons and soft tissue of different vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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serpenillus.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay
I'm Gabriel
I am a paleoartist, scientific illustrator and concept artist
I work mostly digital but my background is traditional art, so I also work traditionally sometimes
I hope you all like my art.

#paleoart #sciart
Spinosaurus viewed from below and underwater about to catch a fish A couple of Edaphosaurus on the left while a Dimetrodon drags a Diplocaulus it just caught by the tail A pair of Darwinopterus squabbling while perched on a branch A pair of Scleromochlus
January 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
Portrait of a female Great Hornbill, a large bird, down to the upper chest. Her beak is huge, with a yellow-to-orange maxilla and damaged casque and a pale blue-grey mandible. She has a black mask covering her face and the base of her bill. Her eye is silvery and has nice lashes. Her neck shades from yellow through raw sienna to a pale burnt sienna, and her body feathers and the top of her wing are black. Twelve detailed vector illustrations of brains, arranged in two columns, one without blood vessels and one with. More anatomical layers are added from top to bottom, starting from a midsagittal view and ending with lateral. At the bottom left is the wordmark "MedStudy", for whom I did this work. Gouache painting of Anchiornis huxleyii, a small feathered dinosaur, climbing through branches. He's mostly grey with black-spotted white wing, leg, and tail feathers and a rusty red crest and cheek feathers. Watercolor illustration of a Red-and-yellow Barbet, seen at 45°. His head is mostly red and his belly is creamy white. His wing is black with white spots, and a band of this pattern circles his breast. His tail is banded black and white. He's glaring at the viewer, challenging the audacity of any who would dare to look upon him.
October 8, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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hellbendermuseum.bsky.social
New pinned, since I can do that now. Hello! I'm Kieran and I am a biological sculptor, mostly making work for zoos, museums and aquariums!
Digital sculpture of a Green Tree Python coiled on a branch Model of a tardigrade, scaled up to about the size of a thumb Model of an Emperor Newt, lifesize on a diorama base Model of a Cuvier′s Dwarf Caiman, life size, sitting on a dining table
October 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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skyemcdavid.com
Shamelessly plugging the poster I did with @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social at SVP2024 which discusses history of skeletal diagrams! www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Best Practices for Fossil Vertebrate Skeletal Diagrams
PDF | Skeletal diagrams communicate overall skeletal morphology and basic life appearance of extant and fossil vertebrates, are commonly used in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
December 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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gnsiart.bsky.social
Hot off the presses! GNSI’s latest Journal of Natural Science Illustration features a medical illustrator's printmaking, a review of Linda Feltner's book, Catherine Hu's mentorship of sciart interns at the Field Museum, & a look at Yale Peabody's nat sci ill program. Cover © Linda Miller Feltner
January 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM