Art’n stuff

🏵️ Ceramic hummingbird hawk-moth sculpture 🏵️

bonus/proof:

Dragon on a decorative water pipe. One of my favourite sketches I've drawn in a long time

Adrian! Adrian! Adrian!

Re-reading Golden Shrike and coming to the conclusion that Usma deserves several nice afternoons to just hang out.

Which I’m sure she’ll get to do in the comic. At some point. Right???

Cameraperson: Okay, we’re checking out “moods” in the hotel. You can select from a list. We’re picking Flowers. Here’s the Flower mood.

TV displays pink carnations, accompanied by Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Cameraperson (laughing): Okay, let’s check out something else. Let’s check out Pyramids.

TV displays an Egyptian mural, also accompanied by Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Both people begin laughing out loud.

Cameraperson: That sure suites the pyramids. Let’s check out Cities.

TV displays a city nightscape, also accompanied by Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Cameraperson: Okay, let’s check out Wildlife. It’s gonna be a forest, or a – Aaah, okay!

Harbour porpoise - 2027 - Sealife

Imagine my delighted surprise when the owners of Sealife (a whale watching, cetacean research, and education company in Portugal) contacted me last year for some new illustrations - the previous work I had done for them was from 2019! They have always been one of my favourite clients so I was more than happy to comply. Once again they wanted illustrations at the highest detail level, of three additional species they had sighted in the years since the first commission.

This turned out to be my favourite of the bunch, the harbour porpoise. A species I had drawn several times before, and every time they looked more or less like each other. I thought I'd had this species rather figured out. Nothing like a bunch of new reference photos and a newly built from the ground up illustration to discover that I, in fact, had not. This girl became quite different than her predecessor and I love her a lot!

Im crying you draw her SO PERFECTLY I cried from how beautiful she is in your style. How you draw her so gorgerous should be studied imo

oh my goodness gracious this is such high praise thank you :,) here are some ragdoodles i did recently !!

Gray's spinner dolphin "Stenella" longirostris longirostris

A pair of patinated copper and opal glass "Pigeon" lamps by François-Xavier Lalanne, stamped, numbered and monogrammed - model designed in 1991

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!