Snakes n Stuff

reptiles and some other things. dog stuff @counterfeit-dingo, art @dirius

[poolsofchrome]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

[jisuto]

[stories-in-the-wind]

And it's done. The piece that broke the art block. I'm so incredibly proud of this and I've been itching to finish it all week.

Process gif and some rambling beneath the cut

I stated this piece really fighting my brain to just draw something, anything. I had exactly 0 composition ideas and I was really winging it from start to finish. The first 5 steps of the gif were drawn on an airplane where I had no references so I just had to draw from memory. Not having references also meant that I had to manually choose my colors and that was fun. I think if I hadn't nailed the color palette at this point this would never have been finished.

After I landed and was able to grab references I began rendering the waves (Ivan Aivazovsky paintings my beloved) and was originally trying and failing to add a boat into the composition (which was still square at this point). The gif shows one boat but there were many in various places. Note to self, don't draw water before you try to put a boat in that water!

Landed on the lighthouse (did the perspective wrong, later fixed that, not understanding my perspective was probably the cause of the boat problems), changed the design of the dragon to be whale inspired, and eventually added the baby looking at the lighthouse keeper so the story of the piece strengthened.

The lighthouse introduced a problem that I may or may not have successfully solved: the bright yellow of the artificial lighting really stands out and draws your eye away from the dragons. I gave the lighthouse keeper a yellow coat to try and counter act this, as well as giving the dragons bright yellow eyes.

Overall I'm very satisfied with the contrast of blues/purples and yellows to really make the subjects pop. The only thing I'd probably change if I could do it again would be to make the crests of the waves lest bright, especially where they were crashing onto the rocks because they're too bright (see greyscale below). Unfortunately when I render water it's more or less all on one layer so fixing that was not possible.

Hope you like it :)

[cedar-rayne]

✧ sturgeon ✧

sneak peak of a new sculpture coming to my shop! this is the underglaze painting before the clear glaze is applied.

[lazer-t]

Pair of Inostrancevia

Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition

Exhibition print available here

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[is-it-out-of-touch-thursday]

Yes

[prowodnick]

well, if the shoe fish...

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

Scooped this molecule of a snake off of the bike path

[ruthlesslistener]

eating me

maimed

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[taraxippos]

WHO DID THIS

[taraxippos]

Rockwith Aleaf

[teaboot]

Late for an appointment this morning because my beautiful son child stole a wrapped and bagged bologna sandwich containing roughly 300% his maximum safe sodium intake out of the lunch box in my backpack while I was on the shitter and refused to spit it out

[teaboot]

⬆️ Documented evidence of my sweet and perfect and beautiful firstborn son furiously defending his hard-won right to shit his brains out

[teaboot]

Had to draw

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

A gorgeous blend of detailed textures and rich, dark tones in this unicorn watercolor painting by Maggie Vandewalle @maggievandewalle.

Folk Tale 11” x 15”

[dokelsss]

chupacabra

[zegherevanmale]

[monstersovka]

🌱 dragon sword 🗡️

[soggyskinflaps]

Mustelidae family in a nutshell

[hometoursandotherstuff]