Dani Massey
@creatureweaver.bsky.social
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Creature Designer / Scientific Artist Pronouns: She/Her Level: 25
https://linktr.ee/danimassey
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Animal Photo Reference Repository
6 days ago
New Species: Island Foxes!
www.animal-photo-references.com/island-foxes
All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).
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BingyBongo
7 days ago
#brrrdcember2025
- Day 15 - Guianan Cock-Of-The-Rock Are ornithologists okay?!?!?!?! Ballpoint, Graphite (H) for mid tones, and colored via Clip Studio Paint. This is my 2nd attempt at my new style! I love it!
#brrrdcember
#guianancockoftherock
#cockoftherock
#animalart
#birdart
#birds
#Brazil
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Natural History Museum Mammal Studies Part (3)
#museum
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#animal
#animalart
#skulls
#art
#taxidermy
#nature
#traditionalart
#traditionalartist
#coloredpencil
#sketch
#marine
#mammal
#marinelife
#sciart
15 days ago
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Myashmyash
18 days ago
monkey!!
#monkey
#lifedrawing
#traditionalart
#sketchbook
#sketching
#animalart
#sketch
#illustration
#characterdesign
#art
#animals
#characterart
#ocartist
#originalart
#myart
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R. Blaylock Art
21 days ago
Painting practice with an okapi. The first time I saw one, I was a little girl visiting the St. Louis zoo. I was enthralled. They’re such mythical-looking creatures. I should draw them more often! Thanks to
@animalphotorefs.bsky.social
for the reference photo.
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies Part (6)
#nature
#museum
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#bird
#birdart
#avian
#taxidermy
#sketch
#sketchbook
#animal
#animalart
#traditionalartist
#coloredpencil
#scicomm
#scivis
#sciart
22 days ago
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies Part (5)
#naturalhistory
#museum
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#bird
#birdart
#avian
#art
#taxidermy
#sketch
#animal
#animalart
#traditionalart
#coloredpencil
#scicomm
#scivis
#sciart
22 days ago
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Animal Photo Reference Repository
26 days ago
Photo of the Day: sleepy Northern Elephant seal All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).
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Animal Photo Reference Repository
28 days ago
Photos of the Day: please reboot RedWolf.exe All photos on the repository are free-to-use for artists creating derivative/transformative works (sans AI).
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Boneyard Alaska - Partial Bone Studies References:
www.instagram.com/theboneyarda..
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#fossil
#prehistoric
#mammal
#animal
#animalart
#wildlife
#nature
#skulls
#art
#sketch
#traditionalart
#naturalhistory
#coloredpencil
#paleontology
#paleoart
#sciart
29 days ago
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René Campbell
30 days ago
My palette looks like chaos but I can assure you every colour is used and mixed! Still plenty to paint - progress is slow but steady.
#sciart
🦀
#painting
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Boneyard Alaska - Partial Bone Studies References:
www.instagram.com/theboneyarda...
#bones
#fossils
#prehistoric
#mammals
#Pleistocene
#sketch
#traditionalart
#alaska
#coloredpencil
#art
#animals
#animalart
#wildlife
#tradionalart
#nature
#sciart
30 days ago
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Animal Photo Reference Repository
about 1 month ago
This is a big part of why I founded the animal photo reference repository: because AI slop has made finding good, real references harder while promising using them doesn’t matter… I hope to see more efforts exist to curate and restore accurate references for all sorts of subjects and places.
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JoyousJoyfulJoyness
about 2 months ago
This is my shiny portrait of El Nino the bunny in a pop art style inspired by Andy Warhol!
#animaldrawing
#bunny
#rabbit
#printart
#handmade
#commissions
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Chris Gug
2 months ago
One of the smallest Armored Sea Robins that I’ve ever seen - its body a little larger than a pea. This is the same species featured in my Aliens Collection Print, “Alien #27”.
#armoredsearobin
#searobin
#larvalfish
#deepseafish
#blackwaterdiving
#gurnard
#chrisgug
#gug
#gugunderwater
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Chris Gug
about 2 months ago
How cute! This Bony-Eared Assfish has a pet amphipod! And yes, that’s the actual name of this this
#fish
- the bony-eared
#assfish
#Acanthonus
armatus
#cuskeel
#bonyearedassfish
#acanthonusarmatus
#blackwater
#blackwaterdiving
#deepseafish
#larvalfish
#deepsea
#chrisgug
#gugunderwater
#gug
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Natural History Museum Mammal Studies Part (2)
#museum
#mammals
#skulls
#taxidermy
#animal
#animals
#animalart
#animalartist
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#nature
#sketch
#sketchbook
#art
#traditionalart
#traditionalartist
#sciart
about 2 months ago
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Natural History Museum Mammal Studies Part (1)
#skulls
#museum
#animal
#animals
#animalart
#animalartist
#sketch
#art
#traditonalartist
#sketchbook
#traditionalart
#mammal
#nature
#natureart
#coloredpencil
#drawing
#vertebrate
#scicomm
#scivis
#sciart
about 2 months ago
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harminder
2 months ago
Mrs. Zebra’s perfect pose 🦓
#Zebra
#SafariWest
#Wildlife
#SantaRosa
#CaliforniaTravel
#iPhonePhoto
#Lightroom
#NatureShot
#AnimalPhotography
#ZebraInTheForest
#WildlifeArt
#TravelPhotography
#CaliforniaSafari
#ZebraFocus
#NatureBeauty
#WildlifeExplorer
#ZebraVibes
#ForestWildlife
#TravelWithMe
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Orca Behavior Institute
2 months ago
Male and female orcas have different belly markings, but with high individual variation, it can still be difficult to sex them reliably! To demonstrate that, our Drawing and Painting Orcas instructor Sara compiled this collage she shared with our class last night. Can you tell them apart?
#whalesky
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Alex Maile
2 months ago
Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor. This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource.
www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
🦑 🌊 🧪
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli
2 months ago
I forgot to upload the video after bluesky got video, here's probably top 3 cutest thing I saw in 2024
#marinelife
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Keeper of White Dogs
2 months ago
red shouldered hawk
#NorthCarolinaWildlife
#trailcams
#cameratraps
#birds
# birding
#hawk
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Patrick Coughlin
4 months ago
Walking on water
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Mark Coupe Photography
3 months ago
Made a furry new friend. No picnic baskets were harmed in the taking of this photo.
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies Part (4)
#museum
#bird
#birds
#birdart
#animal
#animals
#animalart
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#nature
#avian
#art
#taxidermy
#study
#specimen
#zoology
#sketch
#sketchbook
#traditionalart
#coloredpencil
#sciart
2 months ago
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Schmidt Ocean Institute
2 months ago
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long
#PhoenixIslandsCoral
expedition in 2021.
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies Part (3)
#pheasant
#museum
#bird
#birds
#avian
#birdart
#animal
#animalart
#animalartist
#nature
#natureart
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#sketch
#sketchbook
#traditonalart
#coloredpencil
#sciart
2 months ago
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Mandalee
2 months ago
These are so bloody cool
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Emil L’Amour
3 months ago
spiny dogfish (Swim On 5, 2019)
#art
#sciart
🎨🦑🦈
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Luke Hunt
3 months ago
Spent countless mornings getting up before sunrise this month in the hope of continuing my barn owl project from earlier in the year which has yielded a couple of successful mornings.
#fsprintmonday
#photography
#birds
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies (Part 2)
#museum
#nature
#bird
#birds
#avian
#animal
#art
#tradionalart
#coloredpencil
#sketch
#sketchbook
#animal
#animalart
#animalartist
#wildlife
#wildlifeart
#scicomm
#sciart
3 months ago
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Isaac Hannaford
3 months ago
New Personal work "High Ground" A thrill seeking explorer has returned to her truck after scouting a nearby cave for breakfast only to find two Titan "xenomorphs" sparing for dominance on the horizon.
#conceptart
#scifiart
#monster
#vehicledesign
#illustration
#scifi
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Wildlife Nomads
3 months ago
One of Brazil’s most beautiful bird! The Araripe Manakin🇧🇷 Endemic to a small area in Ceará, this species is found only near freshwater springs along the Chapada do Araripe. They are Critically Endangered due to habitat loss and water depletion.
#photography
#birds
#birding
#animal
#wildlife
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Aintright
3 months ago
Kevin the Kingfisher. A Friday favourite.
#birds
#photography
#wildlife
#birdphotography
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Pelagics Unlimited : Replica Fish Mounts : Trophy Fish Mounts
6 months ago
#ReplicaFish
#ReplicaFishMounts
#TrophyFishMounts
#Replica-Fish
#Replica-Fish-Mounts
#Trophy-Fish-Mounts
#PelagicsUnlimited
#Pelagics-Unlimited
Here is one of my newly created Fish Mounts I just completed for a fisherman in Delaware. Please stop by my shop or visit:
pelagicsunlimited.com
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The Spaceshipper 🚀
3 months ago
[Upcoming artbook] Creating Worlds: The Disney and 20th Century Studios Cinematic Art of Dylan Cole (Insight Editions, November 18) "Explore the iconic concept designs and beautiful matte paintings from artist Dylan Cole, concept artist for Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Tron: Legacy..."
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Natural History Museum Bird Studies
#hummingbird
#commonnighthawk
#museum
#bird
#birds
#nature
#taxidermy
#drawing
#art
#sketch
#sketchbook
#animal
#animalart
#traditionalart
#scientificart
#sciart
3 months ago
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Attempted to draw a Great White Egret using this wonderful photograph by
@invisitech.bsky.social
#bird
#art
#animal
#animalart
#csp
#clipstudiopaint
#digitalart
#nature
#sciart
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3 months ago
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Connect2Nature 🇨🇦
10 months ago
#Connect2Nature
Keeping up the
#PSA
theme... Keep your eye on what's important. Focus. Do not let yourself be drawn into the crazymaking that is the news cycle today. This Great White Egret was outside my patio yesterday looking for geckos.
#Nature
#Birds
#Photography
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Zachary Berger
3 months ago
Reminder: they're STILL taking all of our work + we STILL need (especially Cali) signatures on the petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR= this'll require transparency about what's in AI datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once done, PLEASE SHARE!!
tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
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Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber)
#sketch
#drawing
#art
#animal
#animalart
#bird
#birds
#avian
#scarletibis
#nature
#museum
#traditionalart
#coloredpencil
#sciart
3 months ago
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Paddle Fish and Random Jellyfish Doodles.
#art
#sketch
#drawing
#animal
#animalart
#marine
#paddlefish
#fish
#jellyfish
#nature
#sciart
#prismacolor
#traditonalart
#coloredpencil
3 months ago
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Mallard Duck Doodles
#duck
#bird
#waterfowl
#animal
#art
#animalart
#wildlife
#sketch
#sketchbook
#traditionalart
#coloredpencil
#sciart
3 months ago
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Connect2Nature 🇨🇦
3 months ago
#Connect2Nature
Always good to have a friend, even if their ear tufts poke you in the eye. These Eastern Screech Owls showing off the two colour morphs. I'm getting so much mileage from my visit to the Canadian Raptor Conservancy last December.
#Nature
#Birds
#Owls
#Raptors
#Photography
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🔬Djigr🦖- D. Dabir-Moghaddam
3 months ago
What is that sound? It’s FINALLY the sound of this year’s
#Paleoctober
in barging in! One simple rule: each day, you will draw an extinct species, and explore the tree of life in the process. Don’t forget to use the hashtag
#Paleoctober2025
so that I can boost! Good luck!
#paleoart
#SciArt
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Smeesh 🌿 Illustrator for hire
3 months ago
I lied. Behold a doodle.
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World Of Art By Sue
4 months ago
August's theme: photographic selfies FLORA BORSI (born 1993), “Animeyed, Flamingo”, 2016. Borsi’s “Animeyed” series of self-portraits with a variety of animals is on-going.
#arthistory
#art
#photography
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Patrícia Nicoloso
4 months ago
Cardeal/Red-crested Cardinal Paroaria coronata
#animal
#animais
#animals
#fotografias
#photography
#photograph
#photo
#photos
#birding
#birdwatching
#santamaria
#santamariars
#riograndedosul
#bird
#birds
#Ave
#aves
#asavesqueeuencontro
#patricianicoloso
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