Holly

I draw things.

[htownsendart]

Hello! My name is Holly, she/her, and I am am an aspiring concept artist, illustrator, and animator working both traditionally and in Clip Studio Paint EX. Welcome to my blog, where I plan on posting my art, speedpaints, and et cetera. My art is now under this tag. I have also updated my art to include both an image description and alt text, and will continue to do so going forward. I also apologize, but as of now my art is not for sale and my commissions are closed, and this blog is only meant to share it. Please feel free to like and reblog, but please do not repost my art as your own or feed my art to any AI. Thank you, and enjoy!

[camelidae]

Sneezing too much to concentrate on other work 🤧 time to sketch horses and cats. Three color challenge~

[taylornprice]

farmers market persimmons in a wonky bowl I made + a bunch of lemons

[neptuniite]

I made a lamb-ear bonnet with fabric from thrifted clothes

[michaelnordeman]

Roe Deer/rådjur. Värmland, Sweden (January 4, 2025).

[blessedscavengers]

froggggg

made in 2025

[htownsendart]

Constantly thinking about how art is very lonely to make, because most of the time it's probably just you, a pen, and a sketchbook, but how it also can give you the whole world by getting your art shared and bringing you into the fold of the community built around art and artists, and I just think it's beautiful. A living history of artists and their art, kept alive by the generations both now and then. To be human is to make art, there is no art without humanity, and that's beautiful.

[jagalart]

Clover

[graskip]

My 2023 thesis film, Little Yaga YouTube Link

[sparrrorow-art]

hey. made a really stupid animation that got me a 5. not perfect cause i was running out of time, but it was fun. everything including the music by me.

video transcript:

digital 2d animation. a character wearing a yellow raincoat stands alone on a lone platform of a train station in the middle of nowhere. long dark hair and a long pointy nose stick out of their hood. it's a grey, gloomy day. the somber piano gets interrupted by a trombone honk, that spooks the raincoat person. it's a goose, animated with pieces of notebook paper. it honks up at the person again, and is joined by another paper goose. they honk back and forth at each other, meanwhile another goose flies down from the sky and crashes into the person. then a whole bunch of paper geese start honking a melody. when they reach a crescendo, a red train pulls into the station, and the raincoat person runs into it (first hitting their face on the door). once inside, they sigh in relief and go find themself a seat. outside, as the camera pans out, we see one last, giant, paper goose, sitting in front of the train. after a pause, it honks. the end.

[todaysbird]

the egyptian vulture is a small vulture found from the iberian peninsula to north africa, west asia and india. like many vultures, a large portion of their diet consists of carrion - however, they are opportunistic feeders that eat a variety of found foods, and willing hunters. they predate on small mammals, birds, and reptiles, and are known for their love of feeding on the eggs of other birds. large, thick-shelled eggs are difficult for the vultures to open, and they have been recorded using tools to access the inside of the egg, such as dropping rocks onto the eggs to crack them open. egyptian vultures have also been recorded using tools in other ways - they use twigs in order to roll up found wool to bring back for use in their nests. adult birds’ plumage is white overall, with black flight feathers. they also have notable bright yellow facial skin, which is bare as in other vultures. wild birds often appear brown or rusty in color from contact with iron-rich soil. the egyptian vulture is currently considered endangered by the IUCN. with few natural predators for adult birds, most of the threats to wild populations are human-influenced, such as poisonings (both accidental and intentional), hunting, pesticide accumulation and collisions with power lines.

photos sourced from the Macaulay Library

[herpsandbirds]

Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, Kenya

photograph by kenyanbirder

[ryothewoodart]

my process for my Nuthatch art.

[starskynder]

Red Junglefowl #birbfest day 29.

Watercolor and colored pencils.

[bigbigtruck]

‬

I wish every artist a very "drawing something so gleefully stupid you cackle the whole time" at least once this week

[luchsyy]

i made a fan animated music video to "Should I" by Sir Chloe for one of my classes! the animation was made entirely in blender, and i worked on it from may to july :) hope you guys enjoy the video<3 (also TW for some flashing starting at around 32 seconds!)

[atlanticflyway]

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) enjoying some marsh slop.