Sadly Yes. Also Russians Killing Endangered Animals In Nature Reserves And Posing With Their "hunting

Merry Christmas! I make this really cool drawing of a Ukrainian Christmas Vertep.

Tell me if you want to hear more about the Vertep tradition in Ukraine. It`s really cool folk practice and i could tell some more about it :D

So this is an older charecter i created when i was little, based on my pet tokay gecko called Mr Spotty/Пан Плямистик (pan Pliamystyk). And i created stories about him And now i decided to redraw him again🎨🐸🐢🦎 Next character soon! #originalcharacters #oc #sketchbook #sketch #drawing #dragonillustration #lizardart #lizardlover #tokaygecko #lizardcharacter #characterdesign #characterconcept #characterdrawing #geckodrawing #pencilsketch #pencilonpaper https://www.instagram.com/p/CPoRAI0HMON/?utm_medium=tumblr

I found these plastic dinosaur minies and decided to paint them to look like Lucky and Wuerhosaurus from paleo pines & and i will show you all the steps in case you want to do something like this yourself

This was my firs time painting minie figures and i tried using the same techniques people use for DnD figures so you can just look up those tutorials on youtube.

I found these ugly plastic dinosaurs on at a flee market for like 5 hryvnias and this is how they looked before their makeover:

First thing i did was wash them with soap and strip off all the spray paint from them using polish remover/acetone, untill they were this weird yellowish plastic color. (Idk if this step was necessary but i wanted to romoves all the dirt & dust so the paint sticks better)

Then i painted them fully with a dark color. I dont advise using pure black. I used a more dark-ish grey with a bit of blue so the undertone works better.

By the way here are these mfs near a match (for size comparison ofc).

Next i dry-brushed them with a cream color to bring out the texture and leave the dark color in the creases and shadows. I had to go over with a few coats so that they were not too dark.

Fore some reason they made these guys all wrinkly instead of scaly but it did help with the texture lol.

(The more i looked at them the more i saw how weird and inaccurate they are. Still cute though)

And the last steps were to cover them in colorfull washes:

The key is to go slowly, building up the colors layer by layer. I also added a bit of different hues in some places to make the colors less more alive (like a bit of pink on the plates, or some green in certain places idk it just gives more variety to the colors. with out it it the colors look a bit monotonous).

Also, seriously go play the game!!!! it`s just so cute. Dinosaur designs are cutified but still faithfull to how the animal looked according to science (minus the pastel colors lol) and you just know that it was made by true dinosaur lovers.

They do have a tumblr blog at @paleopinesofficial but i see their content more on tiktok

I saw this video from @shar on youtube and i HAD to draw him. youtu.be/Xx8TQfhRVXY Idk what is it about him but a frog with daisy on its head? Perfection. I drew like 5 different variants because i was indecisive and also experimented with noise texture for the first time ^^(The first one is my favorite btw).

right now i am mostly posting allready finished art that i have in the backlog but here i had to make an exeption and draw a new art right away

Rebloging this because it is my favorite one and I want everyone to see it

I want to post more pictures from my project but this time it`s less of a ghost and more of a dragon. Someone asked me already how i made these and i wanted to post it here too in case other people are also interested:

I used Krita and just drew them on a new layer on top of photos. That way it`s easier to lower the opasity/see what to erase/edit them/. Also i didn`t use pure white for my ghosts. Instead i colorpicked the lightest color from the photo (or in this case the darkest color of the mountains) and used that. That way they feel more like they are a part of the picture :)

I thought i would keep all the posts about Ukraine and russian agression here on my main blog, but there were just SO many, i decided to split it into another blog @ukrocorvid. I`m still gonna reblog a lot of stuff here on my main/art account @artcorvid, since i feel like my art is NOT apolitical and I always knew i would also use my art account to also talk about the situation in Ukraine and ongoing political events. But there was just so much information i wanted to share, i decided to post most of it to the other blog, and only repost the most important stuff here, to not drown everything else out and keep it easier to look find stuff 🐦‍⬛🌒✨ ================================================

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

Ive been soooo obsessed with ispods lately. I loved them for as long as i remember and I already knew people kept them as pets but only recently concidered keeping them myself. The last straw was playing this game called Bugaboo where you take care of little bugs in a tamagochi and the firt pet is an isopod and i was like: thats it. I cant wait any longer. Im getting pet isopds.Ive already ordered a terrarium for them and have been doing tons of research on how to take care of them I JUST CAN`T WAIT.

Also there is like a WHOLE community of people who breed them and select different morphs (wouldnt be able to afford any of the rare onse though lol) it`s so fascinating!

Dont make me show you why its called a "murder" of crows

You have been warned