Cephalopod Awareness Days continue! Wanted to get this guy finished yesterday… better late than never! My #inktober nautilus.
Tag: scientific illustrations
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on this beetle illustration for my scientific illustration class.
This species of beetle is called Serrognathus hirticornis.
My first Botanical Drawing assignment!
The goal was to illustrate a spread for a (fake) book/magazine about unusual produce! I chose the tomatillo as my subject. The images of the tomatillo were all rendered in watercolor.
Inktober day 9 Horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata)
India ink on watercolor paper
I’m probably going to color this one sometime this weekend because puffins look so weird without their colors.
Carabus ulrichi fastuosus
B/W: Ballpoint pen drawing
Color: Photoshop CS6
Ixia.
Plate from ‘The Ladies’ Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants’ by Jane Loudon. Published 1841 by William Smith.
Getty Research Institute.
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Pages from a naturalist’s notebook. Field notes, 1871. W.H. Dall.
“Examine the geology of Round Island thoroughly. On the South and Southwest the predominant rock is a hard bluish sandstone (A) with a variable dip…”
Page of Lepidoptera taken
from ‘Illustrations of Exotic Entomology’ by Dru Drury and J. O.
Westwood. Published 1837 by Henry G. Bohn.Smithsonian Libraries Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Happy Thursday from this Mesopelagic crested oarfish, illustrated in Schinz’s Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Fische, published in 1856.
Find more illustrations in our new Opulent Oceans Pinterest Board.
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