[kai•rop•ter•ay] Heya! I'm Emily, an artist, novice chiropterologist (bat scientist!), geometry enjoyer, polite Canadian and snake mom. Check my pinned post to read more about me and this blog! Have an awesome day. :D
/|\^. .^/|\ Hi, welcome to my Tumblr! I’m Emily, a 24-year-old Canadian girl with a love for art, science, and a little bit of everything else.
🔺 My Carrd, for a quicker overview as well as my interests and creative endeavours: https://chiiroptereh.carrd.co/
🦇 I reblog stuff and ramble over at @batsylabs !
🎨 My main artistic interests include bats/chiropterology, non-human characters (mainly animals), Flatland (all adaptations), Gravity Falls (specifically Bill), Nuclear Throne/Gun Godz (specifically YV), both combined in @love-triangles-au, anthros, geometric shape characters, imaginative realism, and a lot more! Feel free to send me requests regarding any of these things, I love them!
⚠️ Sensitive tags: #g0re #suggestive #eyestrain #high art. get it lol (art made under the influence) #cw drugs #cw addiction #cw abuse #vomiting
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Hello there, welcome to my Tumblr! I’m Emily, a cheerful Canadian with a love for art, science, and a little bit of everything else. As my username suggests, I’m deeply enraptured by chiropterology, having begun working with the Vancouver Island Community Bat Program when I was 15. I am trained to handle bats, was apprenticed by a local biologist, and assisted in keeping track of local populations as well as educating the public about our dear flying friends.
I’m a positive and super nerdy person. I love sunshine, cuddles, parties and bright colors just as much as I love deep-dives into Wikipedia, biology, philosophizing, and poking dead things. My mindset hinges on a marriage between logic and kindness, as I believe kindness IS logical! I’m deeply empathetic, introspective, and believe in compassion and the goodness of people, so I’m pretty chill and friendly. I always strive to assume the best of others as I hope that is what others will do for me in return; I’m autistic and so do not always understand social rules, so being shown good faith is something I consider invaluable. If you ever wanna chat, nerd-out, or just say hi, go for it! I really do love people, though I've been dealing with extreme mental health struggles for the past few years so I apologize that I tend to disappear. <3
About This Blog:
This blog aims to be a place for me to share my art in hopes it can speak to people in some way, as well as to hopefully make some like-minded friends! Perhaps the occasional status update will pop up, but generally I aim to just give you what you followed for. My reblogs and more personal posts are over at @batsylabs so follow me over there to see sillies and posts from my awesome muties.
I've got a semi-realistic/imaginative realist art style that serves as a love letter to the natural world, with a focus on the diversity in animal anatomy as well as the expressive nuances of color and the magic of light (or, to put it simply, I draw a lot of different animals and love throwing saturated colors everywhere). I love using the tools and mechanics of the natural world to make fantastical subjects and places feel tangible, inspired by how impossible so many things in our world might seem to an outsider — magic is just science we don't understand yet! However I love all kinds of art and hope to experiment a lot more when I’ve refined my main style.
I also draw a lot of fan-art. Like a lot. Especially when I’m in art block which I unfortunately have been for a few years. My favorites right now are Flatland (primarily the novel but I have a fondness for all adaptations!) and Gravity Falls, specifically Bill Cipher, but I have a good deal more!
Being hyperfixated on Bill for so long (about eight years) has done really weird things to my brain and now I also just genuinely love geometry in general, especially “anthropomorphic” shapes like him, which is ironic because I’m quite terrible at math. I’m a big fan of polyhedra, I think they’re so so beautiful like I’m pretty sure angels look like that. My bedroom is covered in paper polyhedra it looks like a default Blender environment
I’m deeply pretentious passionate about art’s technical and philosophical aspects, too. Like just everything about it really; I’m not just an artist I’m very much an art nerd. I adore color theory and the physics of light and shadow. My personal definition of art is that if at least one person feels it’s art, then it’s art. I feel everything is art, and therefore by my own logic everything is art! From the most abstract of modern pieces to the intricate worlds toiled over detail by detail to the pencil you chew on when you’re trying to solve an equation to the blue shadows cast by telephone poles, it has value if someone’s willing to find it.
About Requests:
I really love these and I’m always open to them, ESPECIALLY ones about my favorite fandoms/interests! Shoot me an ask if you’d like, I don’t bite and honestly the sentiment would make my day! :Dc
DO NOT INTERACT:
- If you don’t want to
- If you don’t like Wessex (rest in peace my sweet boy 💖💖)
what if we freaky friday’d ⚽️ and ⬜️ so they both get to fully experience each other’s world as intended
I love you anon we've actually been doing something super similar in the Flatland server lately where Flatlanders infect Spacelanders like parasites and live in their brains, so while I did make a new doodle just for you I also included this other one of them "fused" all gnarly
Angelus holds a genuine passion for Flatland and would be geeking out about it for sure. Meanwhile Atticus is like ascending for a second (third?) time so he's absolutely gonna make it weird
It seems people are posting their artfight attacks!
I didn't do much, sadly. I got caught up in a lot of things and even missed the end of it due to rearranging my room!
Anyways, here are my attacks!!
"FOR YOU," for @cosmomatic
"Preserve The Beauty Of Nature" for @chiiroptereh
Yes, that is all. Thank you times a MILLION to those of you that attacked me, it means the world to me seeing my silly little designs out there drawn by someone who ISN'T me, haha.
M Sphere and N Sphere also for Mossy because their charas are too good
"Anthropomorphized" Jack and A-lon for @ka-fasila
Windows for @vhsdruid
GG everybody! I did a lot of work I'm proud of this year and feel like I improved. I apologize again if I haven't gotten back to you on your attacks yet, my new job's been draining me more than I expected and I got beaten the hell up this year (37 defences!! y'all are awesome!!); getting through things slowly but surely! Love you mwah
@bgsartcavern 's Square and Sphere! I really love these two I want to smooch Atlas's bald head.
WOO I suspect this'll be my last big piece of the month (I GOT EMPLOYED!! Very tired but good I think!!). This piece was quite intimidating but I think it turned out cool! Hopefully will get another smaller attack or two submitted before AF ends but if I don't see you then thanks for the awesome year!
Almost forgot, here's a more experimental Art Fight attack on @cosmomatic and their awesome awesome characters — I call it "Blue" (insert walter white dot gif)
The color blue's really significant to this character (the little arrow named Rayelle), being both tied to her negative self-image and her Spaceland ""friend"" (pictured here as Large Ominous Eye™). I wanted to invoke the vibe of this awesome piece by Gerard Dubois where for a moment the massive presence reads as the sky itself; I thought that fit Flatland's cosmic horror themes really well (and also Blue)
First attack this Art Fight - a Flatland mass attack!! Took me almost a week but it was totally worth it, I adore how it came out. My sphere Atlas hosting a dinner party at his cabin with his fellow bug enjoyers <3
(Reblog, don't repost! DO NOT use for A I!)
Character credits:
Dataland Sphere & Square - @meloncholicmonosodium
Angelus Sphere & Atticus Square - @chiiroptereh
Atlas Sphere & Breaker Squentagon - ME!!
Theo Sphere & Zephyr Pentagon - @mossy-the-thing
B Sphere & E Square - @alfredsquare
Jack & Alon - @ka-fasila
Rayelle - @cosmomatic
