Animals

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Ox

Ox

This is a postcard-sized image I drew for a birthday card for my father. the ox is somehow connected with the village here, and he made at least one present for someone else with the theme, so...

In hindsight, I probably should have tried leaving out the outlines, or most of them, but, eh, next time maybe

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Zoo Sketches

Zoo Sketches

Critters drawn from life at the Neuwied Zoo.

Guess which one was the table decoration in the restaurant? :P

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The thing with wings

Dragon wings tend to be more or less bat-based, but photos of bats in flight tend to be rarer than ones of birds in flight, making studies a bit more difficult.

For birds I recommend the deviantart account of Cheryl Moore, where you can find a great number of photos of birds in flight - most of them white birds, meaning there is no pattern on the feathers distracting from the shape.

As for bats, during the last week some photos of bats drinking from a pond in flight went through the bits of blogosphere I watch. Looking up Kim Taylor brought up Warren Photographic, which has more (albeit smaller) photos of bats in flight.

On Deviantart I found one compact tutorial on bat wings by cactusart.

The wing tutorial by Kandice Zimbleman-Wang may be a bit weird on the formatting and spelling side, but content-wise I find it very helpful.

For the sake of completeness and comparison, you could look at pterosaurs wings, too. (What intersts me more after a bit of poking around wikipedia are the various head shapes, though. Fascinating.)

tagged Animals Fantasy Contemporary Fantasy Fae Cats

A Real Pest

Pixies look cute, all right.

They're not so cute anymore when they decide to redecorate your garden, replacing tomatoes with nightshade, the plastic chairs with toadstools, and apples with dead fish - something about pretty glittering scales, my neighbour thinks. Or when they cut holes into your tyres to turn them into pixie nest boxes.

That's more than annoying, but then they ate my cat.

I'd been trying to get rid of the gluttonous fleabag for years, but it kept coming back. The pixies hadn't pissed into my briefcase, so it might turn out a good trade. Maybe even cheaper.


(This drabble sprang from an attempt at a six word story that went "Then the pixies ate my cat".)

tagged Animals Owls Birds

A Family of Owls

A Family of Owls

Another former Amazon package, this time properly dried.

tagged Animals Insects & Spiders

Insectoid post

In case you didn't know yet, I like insects, spiders and the like. So, bit of a themed post.

A short video I captured of an ant dragging a rather hefty lunch home:

Bits of my stuff:
Firefly Button Eyes Green plants are out Spider and Pencil

Links:
Moths Use Sonar-Jamming Defense to Fend Off Hunting Bats
Dancing caterpillars put off predators (cute photo, found via neatorama)
a bug sculptures photoset on flickr

Origami arthropods found on deviantart, different creators:

That artist of the last one has a lot of other great models in his gallery, only with the thumbnail links disabled.

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Spider and Pencil

Spider and Pencil

Just a quick snapshot for scale

tagged Animals Insects & Spiders

Button Eyes

Button Eyes

This little cutie showed up to keep me company while I was fooling around with paint, and I started fooling around with my camera instead.

It's some kind of jumping spider - the eyes are sort of a giveaway. As was the bit that the next moment it jumped on my camera. Such a little darling.

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Wizards have no sense of humour

Elsa looked around scornfully.

The lab was a big clicé, full of dark wood and leather props, candles stuck on skulls chipping highlights off inlaid runes. At least they had a pickled dragon embryo rather than the old stuffed alligator...

She finally got the joke when she saw the familiar.

Nobody expected a sun conure.

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Green plants are out

Green plants are out

As far as I can tell, this is some kind of katydid/bush-cricket. It sat in my Japanese maple, where the whole camouflage deal did not work so well.

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