Pictures and Things

Hello, I love plants, animals (particularly insects), art, craft, animation and other random stuff like creature design and sci-fi. My pronouns are she/her and I am aro/ace.

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This was intended as another art exchange gift for someone on discord but it has been three months and they aren't responding so I have decided to keep the goofy little goober.

They wanted a dragon design based on the picture of a fancy goldfish they sent me. I'm actually really pleased with this Derby little critter though I doubt they would last a second in the wild.

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Some of my other recent art attacks. I have managed to average out at one per day so far

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My first defence. This was for groza_vdaleke on ArtFight.

This is my first attack.This was for Zyzzylva on ArtFight.

This is my second attack. This was for Semolinaart on ArtFight

I definitely need to sleep now. I woke up really early and made my first attack and started the second then went to work and finished the second one after.

I am so happy to have received two beautiful attacks so wanted to try a revenge.

It is now almost 1am so definitely time for bed.

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Meet Merril, the strange critter I cooked up after work today, instead of sorting out the paperwork I was meant to be looking at.

I was procrastinating and made myself a little collage in Pinterest. Then decided i needed to draw something. Any whos I think I like him

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Just finished my part of an art exchange mini game on discord. Her new owner wants a design loosely based on the Falin/dragon chimera from Dungeon Meshi and some other reference pictures which you can see in the process video below including the bleeding heart dove.

I am really pleased with how she turned out and kinda want to keep her.

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Today's worm is this charming Composetia that looks like a little smiling pokemon.

Photo by Leslie Harris

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still one of my favourites

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Couldn't help myself they look like they have mini chicken drumsticks on their heads

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This is a bonus creature for an art swap for someone on discord. Based loosely on a mexican hairless dog called a Xoloitzcuintle (I think). My exchange partner sent me a picture that I think is their pet. They wanted either a design based on it or on a shaggy inkcap fungi.

They are an incredibly cute and cool breed but I've only ever seen one in real life. I live in the UK and I don't think our climate suits them unfortunately.

I was playing around with horn placement thinking I would erase the ones I didn't like. But once I started adding horns I couldn't stop and then I grew attached to them and didn't want to get rid of any of them. So he looks a tad ridiculous.

Here is the other part of the exchange. I made a winged and wingless version so they can choose.

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Xave on discord made a stunning creature design for me and I couldn't resist drawing it.

Here is their full design.

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Stripe is no longer a disembodied head. I finally got round to doing her body design for art fight

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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ArtFight anyone?

Can't wait, it will be my first year.

https://artfight.net/~PotatoCakesRock

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Just finished a design for @toxiipop on discord as part of an art event. They wanted a non-generic colourful bug alien critter based on their mood board. Design obviously belongs to them now but I wanted to show it off

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A little butterfly dragon for an art swap with "gildelly" on discord

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I'm currently trying to make a gothic little art doll creature though the process is considerably slower than I first envisioned as I keep needlessly complicating things.

It's an entry for a monthly contest on a gothic fiber-craft group on discord called GothStich.

I have started on the body but it's looking a bit rough at the moment so I'll wait to share pictures of that until I know it's gonna turn out all right.

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Another plant study. This time it's a single phalaenopsis (moth) orchid flower. Original photograph was from a study challenge from one of my discord servers so I don't know who the original artist is unfortunately.

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Here are a couple more drawings for The March Hotel (an ongoing art challenge).

The first is a water dragon design based on an old ink sketch.

The second picture is a drawing of a demon character I designed for myself back in January (bottom picture). Her name is Sinestra and she is a nasty piece of work, though nice and colourful thanks to the pheasant-like feathers that cover her.

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I have drawn myself a couple of little dragons as part of an open ended art challenge I am attempting to do on discord. It is for a server called The March Hotel. The challenge is very simple you just have to draw and post something that takes you more than 10 minutes every day. If you don't, you are disqualified and booted from the server.

The first design I did today as I had half a day off work and not a lot of housework to get done. It is based on a Java green peacock. I'm not sure quite why but when I was doodling out the design it ended up looking quite like a antelope in its general demeanor so I'm now imagining something about the size of a small deer skittering its way through the undergrowth of some tropical rainforest eating plants and small creatures.

The second design I did on the first of march as soon as I saw the art challenge. It is based on a carnivorous picture plant that I photographed at Kew Gardens a few years ago.

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A bit random, I know, but one of the discord servers I am in gives you weekly art prompts and this week it was organic forms. One of the reference pictures was garlic. I love garlic so wanted to give it a shot and then had a go drawing the viola reference picture.

After that I scrounged through my old pictures, taken at orchid shows and Kew gardens, and found a couple I wanted to draw.