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Javier Lazaro - illustration

@lazaroillustration.bsky.social

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Scientific illustrator and wildlife artist. Former scientist - biologist Commissions: [email protected] Prints store: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/javi_lazaro/ Web: https://www.lazaroillustration.com/ Human artist. No AI art.

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 11d

wow nice! how do you get those images? love it!

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 11d

the zebra-fish-man (three animals in one) XD
thanks!

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 11d

Working on the landscape for the bats. I've also included a swarm of insects in the background - its a hunting scene!
I always love this stage of the process

#bats #art #digitalart #insects

Line work of bats with background including insects and a forest landscape

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 13d

"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish

Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 20d

thanks! :)

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 20d

Working on the next piece of the "animals in the move" series for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#art #sciart #bats 🦇

black and white illustration of flying bats and moths

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cover illustration for the book Nursery Earth. This was a fun one :)
Book Author @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Published by The Experiment Books
#art #digitalart #booksky #illustration

Cover illustration for the book "nursery earth" depicting different cute babies of several animal species

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 30

Chimpanzee cracking nuts using a stone
#art #DigitalArt

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 29

Cover from last June of Molecular Biology and Evolution with my illustrations of Lonchura finches #birds #illustration #art #science

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 29

Totally agree! :)

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 28

Detail of two hyenas
#SciArt
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 28

thank you very much! :)

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 28

that was my aim, thanks!

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 28

thanks a lot!

Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 27

Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for
@emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press
@princetonupress.bsky.social
#SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 26

You can now find the Sahara swallowtail (Papilio saharae) illustrations in my web portfolio: www.lazaroillustration.com
#Sciart #insects

Scientific illustrations of the Sahara swallowtail (Papilio saharae). You can find it in high resolution here: https://www.lazaroillustration.com/butterfly

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 25

Foraging partition of rainforest in bats and correspondent wings shapes. Illustration for the book "Bat Island" by Page, Dechmann O'Mara and Tschapka. Details in ALT text.
#SciArt #mammals 🦇

Illustration of the different foraging areas in bats in a rainforest. In the left, the forest with the resource partition of the different bats with a color code that matches the bat silhouettes in the right. The silhouettes indicate the diversity in wing shape and size.

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 7

First piece of Valle Orco, my new personal art project!
A friendly forest orc playing with an old tree, inspired by the beauty and mystery of my valley
Here's a timelapse video. I’ll be creating more creatures from this imagined world
Would love your thoughts :)
#FantasyIllustration #TimelapseArt

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 4

that's so expressive! love it!

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 3

Stokes's sea snake (Hydrophis stokesii) - 5/5

Illustration of a Stokes's sea snake (Hydrophis stokesii)

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 3

turtlehead sea snake (Emydocephalus ijimae) - 4/5
#SciArt

Illustration of a turtlehead sea snake (Emydocephalus ijimae)

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hebius vibakari danjoensis - 3/5

Illustration of Hebius vibakari danjoensis

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 3

Iwasaki's temperate Asian coralsnake (Sinomicrurus iwasakii) - 2/5
#SciArt

Illustration of Iwasaki's temperate Asian coralsnake (Sinomicrurus iwasakii)

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Aug 3

Some illustrations for the last finished project: the atlas of reptiles of Japan.
Commissioned by Chimaira.
#Sciart
👇yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) (1/5)

Illustration of yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus)

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Javier Lazaro - illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · Jul 23

I love to see how @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social uses my illustrations to announce their events!
They actually commissioned this illustration specifically for posters :)
#SciArt #mammals #primates

poster of a seminar series with an illustration of bonobos in the background

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