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Vojta Hybl
@vojtahybl.com
🎨 mixed media illustrator, writer, educator
🪨 geology • nature • timefulness
📍 Cairngorms NP
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My 1st book, ROCKS, coming March ‘26: https://geni.us/Rocks
Website + shop: vojtahybl.com/links
The waterlogged, oxygen-poor soil means that when plants die, they slowly turn into peat. Healthy peatlands store vast amounts of carbon but commercial cutting, burning and draining have degraded them. Dry, exposed peat releases CO2 back into the atmosphere, which contributes to the climate crisis.
December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This painting is a cross-section through a blanket bog: Sphagnum mosses carpet the dark peat below, which rests on metamorphic rock. It’s an archive of time: from minutes to billions of years.

#sciart #natureillustration #illustration #gouache
December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It also has non-standard guidebook features like:

– the etymology of every rock name

– a more philosophical take on the rock cycle

– an entry on the confusing existence of dolomite (the rock) and dolomite (the mineral)

– lithic mindfulness

– sneaky Lady Gaga and The Weather Girls references
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It has over 100 different rocks: there are sections for igneous, volcaniclastic, sedimentary, metamorphic and anthropic (rocks influenced or made by humans) – something no other geology guide has. Expect ID tips, notes on its formation, and what that can tell us about the Earth’s geological past
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Ahh I wrote & illustrated my first book!

It’s been a secret I’ve kept for over a year, but very excited to finally reveal ROCKS – published by @quartobooksuk.bsky.social in March 2026!

You can pre-order from all the usual places here: geni.us/Rocks

#SciArt #PortfolioDay #illustrator #BookSky
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
October 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
POV: you are in Scotland but it’s 400 million years ago and also you are a tiny springtail

#sciart #illustration #paleoart #kidlitart #natureart
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A very exciting #moth encounter in Edinburgh today: Clifden Nonpareil / Blue Underwing / Catocala fraxini

The only record in Scotland according to @inaturalist.bsky.social!
September 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
There is also a rock for every month to keep you company through the year! 2026 will feature metaconglomerate, komatiite, cross-bedded orthoquartzite, intrusive breccia, dunite, limestone, marble, agates and jaspers, blueschist, spherulitic pitchstone, geyserite and puddingstone 🪨 #illustration #art
July 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The coloured bars underlying the dates correspond to the official chronostratigraphic chart, so it’s even easier to know where in the year / geological deep time you are on any given day!
July 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Each day of 2026 corresponds to 12,512,329 years of our planet’s geological history. I highlighted different geological events throughout the months to help you visualise the unimaginable timescales of deep time (it makes for a great science communication or educational tool as well) #geology
July 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
My new illustration of an iconic tundra bird – the rock ptarmigan! It traces the colour of their feathers throughout the changing seasons

#sciart #nature
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Really big lichens or a really small hiker? I’ll let you decide

#illustration
April 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Cool cloud alert!
March 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You’re walking in the coastal saltmarsh on a crisp morning at the tail end of winter. As you peek over the grassy hummocks, you spot a lone curlew feeding in the morning mist.

#natureart #sciart #illustration
March 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Leaf illustrations have grown in my sketchbook. Is this a sign of spring?
March 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy #WorldSeagrassDay! Here’s common eelgrass with a stalked jellyfish friend

#SciArt
March 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It was a Eurasian jay indeed! (with a complimentary acorn)
February 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Guess the bird I’m painting based on my colour swatches

#SciArt
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Grab your rocks and art supplies, and let’s experiment 🪨✏️

Our Patreon theme for February is rocks (of course) and we’re making marks inspired by geology!

Available as part of the Map lichen tier: www.patreon.com/c/vojtahybl

#SciArt #illustration #markmaking #geology
February 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Watery art! Loch Glencoul from my time in Assynt last summer – the vestige of a glacier ❄️

#illustration #map
February 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A little painting of a bleeding tooth fungus 🩸

#FungiFriends #illustration #gouache #natureillustration #SciArt
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Last but not least: Inuit snowgoggles ❄️
February 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This comb won’t do much combing anymore.
February 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Welcome to the early Kingdom of the Scots: an adorable bird figurine, three painted pebbles and a Pictish carving of a boar 🐗
February 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM