#exploration art

The first Great Mouse Detective book to get this Disney-fied cover redux was **Book 5 - The Great Mouse Detective: Basil and the Lost Colony**. I think it turned out pretty darn good! Initially, I considered giving them winter clothes but decided against it this time around. However, there will definitely be a wardrobe change for the next image. I’m thinking of tackling "Basil in the Wild West" next.

Seven birds arranged on one page, each numbered and classified and still the image refuses to feel orderly. The toucan dominates the center like something half-mythic, while the hummingbirds flicker around it in impossible reds and blues. What began as scientific documentation through Humboldt’s expeditions still carries the feeling of discovery. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

anyway just connor and link being dumbfucks

This is Victorian explorer Thomas Baines painting Victoria Falls in 1865 with the kind of obsessive attention to atmospheric optics that would make a meteorologist weep—notice how he's captured not just one but multiple rainbow arcs with scientific precision, because apparently when you've traveled thousands of miles through Africa to document one of the world's great natural wonders, you don't half-ass the refraction angles—and that tiny figure on the precipice is likely Baines himself, who was so paranoid about other explorers stealing credit for his discoveries that he got himself expelled from an expedition for allegedly hoarding supplies, spent years clearing his name, then went right back into the wilderness because apparently being vindicated wasn't nearly as satisfying as painting more rainbows in places where rainbows had no business being that mathematically accurate.

Where is my mind??? 

Character exploration art for the undead superhero Anchorfloe from a project of mine. 

concept sketches of some kids going to a magic school with a monster