Arvo 🍉さんのイラストまとめ

WIP refs that aren't 8+ years old

had to surface sow a bunch of expensive seeds (required light to germinate) i specialty ordered and day later there was the first hailstorm i've seen in over a decade

Jealous of anyone who has the energy to finish anything rn lmao

@biggestjoel I stand by Synder’s greatest work is adaptation of Ga’Hoole (a series of novels about owls by a Jewish author) but he fucked up with that one too the baddies are a metaphor for nordicism with an internal shade-based hierarchy

And he made the Big Bad dark-feathered…

@KatastrophicImp Family

it's amazing how much easier it is to draw on a cintiq holy shit lmao now im motivated to not be terrible at digital

@FENRISCOPTER Reminds me of that one bully dinosaur from the land before time sequel lol or one of those uncanny valley transitional synapsids

@tinycatfriend this is 5+ years old lol but Tanya Darobti from my alternate Earth maniraptoran pplstory, true heir to throne (1st to break eggshell)of a nation spanning basically Ethiopia to Algeria But Ableism Happens

&Taylor uses them in some timelines but cane more
https://t.co/qZXLA3y0xi

Threw together quick restoration of the European Oligocene hummingbird Eurotrochilus inexpectatus for a talk, speculative plumage mostly based off extant basal hummingbirds (genera Florisuga and Topaza)
Pic of fossil from Louchart 2008

The bladderhorn from Expedition while not my favorite (the jelly sea conceit is just too cool, after that I like the arrowtongue a lot though as a design) was clearly a major inspiration for me. The “bladders” when inflated look like lobes from my own sapient alien