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Exploring strange new worlds.
A 3d model I made based on concept art by Jeff Zugale.
Enjoy.
Playing with harmonics in today's #inkyDays drawing. I also made some progress with this big piece I've been working on. I'm loving the colors!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/125704345 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-April-2025-L3L51CTWHJ
I'm thinking about putting some of my fish drawings in my shop. Maybe later today.
SETI Institute in the News: March Roundup
https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-march-roundup
This month, the SETI Institute announced exciting news about research and innovations that expand our understanding of the universe and bring us closer to answering one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Are we alone?
This project combines two aspects of illustration that I particularly enjoy: the anatomical reconstruction of an extinct species, and traditional printing techniques. The main illustration is in lithography, the pictograms in silkscreen and the typography in lead.
Rhamporhynchus Muensteri
Behind this barbaric name lies a small pterosaur... An adorable physiognomy that I have reconstructed in drawing from existing fossils!
It is neither a bird nor a dinosaur.
No feathers or scales, but a rather special coat of hair called pycnofibres
Membranous wings, supported by the 4th finger, which is particularly long
Loved working on this black rhino drawing. Played with textures, subtle tones, and even used a small makeup brush for clouds. I chose to indent paper for the grass over skin on the feet with an empty .3mm pencil! Did you know a group of rhinos is called a “crash”. #sciart
Artists! In a sea of interchangeable, manufactured stuff, you are providing something unique, handmade, long-lasting, and deeply personal. #art #sciart https://substack.com/home/post/p-161312188
Croquis #botanique du soir, bonsoir
L'Amélanchier à feuilles ovales (Amelanchier ovalis) est un arbuste dont les fruits (les amélanches) sont comestibles et font de bonnes confitures.
Rhamporhynchus Muensteri
Derrière ce nom barbare se cache un petit ptérosaure, dont j'ai reconstitué en dessin le physique et l'adorable physionomie à partir des fossiles existants ! Ce n'est ni un oiseau, ni un dinosaure.
Ni plumes ni écailles donc, mais un pelage un peu spécial de poils appelés pycnofibres !
Des ailes membraneuses, notamment soutenues par le 4e doigt, particulièrement long
Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee. It has a 5 cm wingspan.
a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel.
#linocut #printmaking #physics #Bauhaus #quantumMechanics #FeynmanDiagram #penguinDiagram #particlePhysics #sciart #WorldQuantumDay
*I am somewhat dubious of this date because a) I was trained to use the metric convention day/month/year and b) physicists use the reduced constant h-bar (that’s h divided by 2 pi) and then, cause it’s easier they just change units such that h-bar = 1 but it’s as good an excuse as any
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Froghopper sex" shows a pair of Anthoscytina perpetua engaging in Jurassic sex.
Experimenting with another of my new inks in today's #inkyDays drawing.
Here's an in-progress shot.
I've now posted the finished drawing, and more, for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/125704345
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-April-2025-L3L51CTWHJ