Today is my birthday and the best gift, as always, would be a repost of my works✨

Important facts about the Animal Photo Reference Repository: 1. No AI infiltration. All photos are taken by me (and donated photos accepted in the future will be thoroughly vetted). 2. Independently run by a real human! 3. Not affiliated with Google, no google integration on the site. 1/2

Had a charity project that needed a few quick spot illos, so I figured it might be a good justification for picking up a pencil and trying to sketch again. (Also, brush markers are terrifying and absolutely great for speed-inking.)

I cannot believe you're at 10k already, and yet, your art deserves even more!! I'm Heraldo, your friendly illustrator who sometimes has fun with concept arts! I love fantasy but I always look forward to branching out into other themes so who knows?? Here's some of my personal favourites!

what's in a witch's bag 🖤🗝️🗡️💄🕷️🧷

Bottom flippers are done. Since the fins will be fabric, those holes on the brackets are for stitching heavy thread through to make them more antique-ish steampunk sail-like. #3dprinting #arttoy #robot #mecha #3d #modelmaking #steampunk #fusion360 #goldfish #model #kit #35scale #submersible #sub

Moonlit adventures...

Speeder bike concept for Solo: A Star Wars Story

"Wyldling" Elizabeth Leggett. 2023

A Faun fragment, from some time ago...

[Just a cup of sunshine]

I draw more pirate flags/Jolly Rogers than I probably should. But this one is mine. Updated in 2020, from a personal design I did a few decades ago. (Drew this version originally for a tattoo, then Covid happened, then lack of money happened, then *gestures at everything* happened. Ah, well.)

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

tree house

Andalusian classics but they are women loving each other. 🌞Based on a painting called 'Cortejo español' by García Ramos.

ARTIST VURD: Where is a good, affordable, LGBTQIA2S-friendly place to get custom enamel pins made? Share your wisdom, please! Asking for a friend, who is really in fact myself.

I so wish I were in an autumn forest right now, listening to the quiet strumming of strings to the rustle of falling golden leaves. Autumn is very good for cities, but autumn in the forest is a miracle... #fantasy #fantasyart #bard

If you need beautiful illustrations, I'm open for new projects. I'm an illustrator for books and music albums covers, board and roleplaying games, traiding cards, character art as well as for private comissions. 🎨 www.artstation.com/avalach 📩 yuliazhuchkovaartist[@]yahoo.com #bookart #fantasy

HP is a hard-working and creative ceramicist, educator, and all-around great guy, and I consider him pretty much family. And he's dealing with more than any of us should have to right now. I know that things are *gestures all around at everything* currently, but please help out if you can.

✊ resilience ✊

Feeling weary & knocked on the head, but... Onward! Badb Catha, Morrigan...

Lofi Cali Girl - beats to relax/study to during the climate change apocalypse. Lots of people have messaged me with well wishes for the #LAfires. I'm lucky enough to live in a different part of California (in the SF bay area) so please do not worry about me. 1/9

Re-revisiting a character of mine that's been around forever and a day. Is her outfit in any way practical? Absolutely not. And sometimes, that's OK. Pencil sketch, Photoshop highlights/color (If I decide to post more non-work or pin-up art, you'll probably see more of her in the future.)

Megalosaurus bucklandii. Digital portrait.

Y'all, I know it's been said a million times before by people cooler than I, but take care of your physical, mental, and creative health. Burnout is serious, and the road out of it is difficult and frustrating. Be kind to yourself, and remember that we're all just works in progress.

While I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with myself art-wise now, I guess I can share some of the stuff that wasn't for my day job. Anyway, here's Wonderw-- I mean, here's a quick character portrait from the last D&D game I played in.

Because I still don't quite know how to keep Bluesky from cutting off my header pic, I repost it here. It's an older sketch, but it was still fun to clean up. Mechanical pencil and Photoshop.

A character design from 2020, the year of Reaper Miniatures' virtual ReaperCon online (during Covid-19 lockdown).

Many moons ago, I did a fun little sketch of @theadequate.bsky.social. Fast forward to today, and the physical media copies of his new album, "Official Bootleg." (Available from the Troubadork himself, or in digital form on his Bandcamp page.)

Royal Mail D&D First Day Cover stamps miniature sheet. 59cm x 27cm/"23.25 x "10.5

Inside of you are two wolves. Inside of me is an assortment of unsupervised goblins. And stuff. And things. Self-portrait? I'll let those who know me decide.