Ida
@rusalkai.bsky.social
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Illustrator, concept artist & 3D artist. Prehistoric creatures & historical clothing. I work on dinosaur games. She/her. No AI/NFT
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🦖 Hi, I'm Ida! 🦣
I'm a concept artist, illustrator, and a 3D modeler, and I work in the entertainment industry. I love depicting prehistoric life, and sometimes dabble in fantasy and fashion history!
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At one point I put Henry in my pocket in a little plastic container to keep him safe and got really anxious when I realized I hadn't poked any holes in it. He couldn't breathe in there!!
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Not once in the dream did I question why my nephews were a caterpillar and a pill. I just felt such love for them.
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I had a dream I had two nephews named Michael and Henry. I went to an amusement park with them and tried to keep them safe in all the scary rides because they were still so young.

Anyway this is what they looked like:
An MS paint drawing of a green caterpillar named Michael and a white pill named Henry.
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I am in looove
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oh NO you truly are the bravest soldier
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Loooove the palette on this!
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I love seeing the little thumbnails! Always nice to get a peek at the rough stages of other artists’ work. Pretty piece ❤️
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oh she is OUT
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I want you to know that I still think about your TNG/Muppets thing very often. I might have to draw it someday.
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thanks for the motivation big cat, needed it today
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Yess!!!
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A little Blender test project from 2023 👁️
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Diesel the Tyrannosaurus
Photo of a gouache painting depicting a Tyrannosaurus rex. His head takes up most of the page, and he's turned almost to face the camera, with his mouth slightly open. He is brown with some red areas.
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Such beautiful architecture and craftmanship! I want to see houses like this in person some day so that I can see all the details and effort that went into building them.
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No, it’s an Allosaurus. Dilo is one of my favs, though!
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Yeah, it's painted with jelly gouaches! Thanks!
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Yesss do it, it's so freeing to just do something tactile after working on the computer all day!
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I think I like painting with gouaches now
Photo of a small gouache painting. It depicts an Allosaurus from a side view on black background. The dinosaur has a light creamy and grey undertone, brown patterning and a yellow eye.
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Been trying to battle a bad art block, did some tiny gouache studies in the evening.
Photo of a page from a sketchbook. It has two, small, gouache portraits of people in side view. The top one is a man with a turquoise background and the bottom one is a woman with a pink background.
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Does anyone remember part 2?
A picture that says "There are only two types of baby mammals". Underneath is a drawing of a cartoony, cute baby deer, and next to it a pink, naked, hairless baby monotreme.
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Sweet babies 🥺❤️
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The use of negative space here is so cool! Beautiful piece ❤️
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I can now share the "Jurassic Scrub" plants I designed/reconstructed for Prehistoric Kingdom!
Scientific diagram of a Jurassic Araucaria, based mostly on Araucaria delevoryasii from the Morrison Formation. Reconstruction/Diagram of Kimuriella with leaves based on Zamites species from formations featured in the game, total form based on Kimuriella densifolia and Kimuriella/Zamites gigas. Jurassic Gleichenia-lineage plant based mostly on Gleichenia pulchella. Reconstruction of a "Cupressinocladus" type cheirolepidiaceous conifer, drawing from various Jurassic and Early Cretaceous preserved logs and branches.
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This has to be one of my favs from you. 💜