#carpet python

[tabaquis-creatures]

you dont need to smell the camera

Editing: This is Tonic! He is a carpet python!

[snototter]

An inland carpet python (Morelia spilota metcalfei) in Flinders Ranges, Australia

by Matt Summerville

[lingrimmart]

Look at our smart girl. Isn't she adorable?

[herpsandbirds]

Murray-Darling Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei), family Pythonidae, Murray-Darling basin, SE Australia

photographs by Mick Fullerton Wildlife

[vyva-melinkolya]

the Vyva Melinkolya self titled LP turns 8 today

Ares and I, early 2018

[gutloadedstudios]

A month ago I shared the very early stages of this piece where I was still working on illustrating each individual scale of each individual snake on this piece, im elated to share that its finally completed!

This absolutely amazing piece took a total of 50 hours to complete and shows off the beautiful genus of Morelia:

- Morelia varigata

- Morelia bredli

- Morelia imbricata

- Morelia mcdowelli

- Morelia metcalfei

- Morelia cheynei

- Morelia spilota

[aahrura]

Here’s a bunch of drawin’s I did over a school year while I was bored in class lol

[aggiepython]

My hope had been to grab and slash her wrist. In reality, I grabbed and slashed the snake. (Pact 10.06)

I arrived at the front window of the house.

The interior of the house was no longer dark, but had a peculiar hue, like the light was shining off wine red and gold surfaces.

Whatever Jeremy had done here, calling his god in to ram down the metaphorical gate, it had changed the atmosphere fairly dramatically.  The air was heavy, even on my side of the mirrors, thick as though the place had filled with smoke.  I saw two women climbing over and under a tipped-over bookshelf in the hallway.

In this light of red and gold tints, I could see their real features.  Their facial and bone structure was different, though not unpleasant.  Their movements were languid, as they easily crawled across the spaces, as if they were simultaneously very flexible and very strong.

They might have reminded me of lions, with that grace, predatory slant to their features, and general strength, but they were panting hard, bronzed skin flushed red, and when the one in the rear looked over her shoulder to see if anyone was following, her pupils were pinpoints.

I felt like, given general fairness, that snakes should only be big or poisonous, not both.  That snake looked like it was both.

My hope had been to grab and slash her wrist. In reality, I grabbed and slashed the snake. The animal had been sliced to the spine, muscles and guts severed.  It bent in an angular, forced sort of way where it had been cut.

Cords stood out on her neck, veins visible here and there across her body, but her face was eerily blank, all of the emotion in her eyes, lower lids raised.

When she moved, she moved fast.  A lunge, crossing half of the hallway.

I ran.

(a little pact excerpt... i think this scene is described so vividly! i really wanted to draw the wine and gold colored lighting.)

i roughly based the poor snake off of Morelia spilota spilota, a subspecies of carpet python, which is only big and not poisonous. also this painting is something i started 2.5 years ago! i got really frustrated with it, abandoned it, but i still liked the concept so recently i dug it up, although i ended up redoing most of it. i've been trying a new approach to perspective which is simply not drawing straight lines and blaming it on the character's psychological state, which in this case is dionysus-induced tipsiness.