Why fake pockets?

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Bonus tiny baby cyan on top of adult cyan

i really like old species descriptions

the species in question

“melancholy ferocity”? Yeah that’s fair

Pewpew

By dashase / Redbubble / Ko-fi

A little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by.

i have a brushes tag which is more comprehensive but the brush i use for lineart 9 times out of 10 is GvW Urban Sketcher P4 from georgbrush.club though i don't remember the exact pack i think it might be a pencil and charcoals one. i also use urban sketcher for painting (i used it in my most recent art post here)

if it is drawn in sai then the brush is default round paintbrush for everything including line art. for this style of art (more obviously pencil-like) what i use is procreate default 6B pencil with the grain fiddled with a bit to make it denser:

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true grit kraftone kit - i use this to do the cmyk comics and vintage print effects. it's expensive so it's used up my entire brush budget for the year lmao. this requires u to use only cmyk in successive multiply layers to get your colours and by god is it labour intensive

true grit rusty nib set - tons of brush pen and calligraphy style stuff. also extremely fun

true grit free sample set - sign up for the newsletter and u get this one for free. it's got two folders of various stuff from their other sets, it rules. the blue texture here is a litho brush i got from the set

trisketched risograph - for risograph effects. another one where u need to layer a simplified palette to get the colours u want. hard to use

trisketched ink - i use this for writing and adding labels to my homework. the trisketched sets were gifted idk how much they cost

George V W the (will) elder set - this is free/pwyw and it contains the brush i now use for nearly all my sketches and lineart, hugely recommended

I’d like to present a “project” I started last summer: VANILLA LIZARDS!!

A lot of time and effort went into bringing this to life and thinking through everything visual. Rina and Klekot helped me a ton with that — huge thanks to them.

In this big encyclopedia, I wanted to show my take on lizard designs and give each of them a short description. Do you have any favorites among them?

some female bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculata) joined a friend and I this morning while out exploring. It was really incredible to see them in action!