The Return This piece was inspired by the recent return of the spotted hyena to Egypt after 5,000 years, driven by climate change and shifting ecosystems. An animal long absent appears again.
gothhours 🐊 swamp witch summer
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artist + writer, fantasy and archeology luvr arliss / genderfluid, usually they/them / 30s art tags: #art #oc #elfenjoyers https://ko-fi.com/gothhours | https://sheezy.art/gothhours
Forest Fairy Village - a battlemap by Krane! A lovely artist friend of mine is offering their whole human-drawn library of beautiful battlemaps for free, on patreon, for a week. You can find her maps here! https://www.patreon.com/StainedKarbonMaps/posts/grab-weeks-free-165621808
tldr i got served an eviction notice this morning & my bank account is in the negatives right now. the past 2 months have been a nightmare and my situation just keeps going from bad to worse (more in-depth explanation in the 3rd pic) ko-fi.com/corantus/
I too find myself caught between Scylla and Charybdis lately.
I think I'm prooobably done with AF attacks for this year, since I'm babysitting my nephew the next few days. This was my first year doing AF and I had a really lovely time--thank you for the attacks and likes! 💚
This is a very cute find. At Karahantepe, a Neolithic site near the famous Göbeklitepe (Turkey), three small stone figurines (of a fox, a vulture, and a wild boar) were found arranged in a very specific way inside a small vessel. It is believed that they were used to tell a story by a storyteller!
WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2
Ok guys, I made a little cave painting simulator! This is a little minigame where you can draw on a cave wall, using colors inspired by the pigments used on cave art. You can also paste stickers based on famous cave paintings! www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...
Cave Painter
Small cave painting simulator
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Background paintings from The Secret of NIMH (1982), dir. Don Bluth, Don Bluth Productions
The Sea of Sorrow Field Guide is out! This fantasy #ttrpg 'naturalist's journal' covers the ecology of a vast underground ocean, including umbral krakens and singing salamander dragons. I'll be posting some pages to share @toadlett.bsky.social 's awesome creature art! geckopirate.itch.io/fg-sos
I managed to finish something for the #O2A2 jam this year! 🥳 Alice Lavender is a short horror visual novel, inspired by the "eel pie" story from Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia ➡️ calygreyhound.itch.io/alice-lavender ⚠️ please read the content warnings #gamejam #visualnovel #mermaid #toxicyuri
Alice Lavender by calygreyhound
Seven more years, or seven hundred. I was wrong to ever let you go.
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I’ve been trying to figure out how I can translate my soft digital style into a risograph by separating all the color channels. I have not printed them yet, so I have no idea if they’ll work! I still need to pick the final colors! Which color combo do you like most?
Part of the wonderful Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle at Stenness on Orkney. The stone circle dates to around 2600 to 2000 BC, and forms part of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site’. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Brodgar #Prehistory #Orkney
Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇
Welp @qbombband.bsky.social batty rap wasn’t on my bingo card and yet
Also, just an AF heads-up that I'm housesitting this week so I'll be taking a break from attacks 'til the weekend!
My friend rweithy was showing me some vintage book illustrations from Cyril Bouda and there was one in particular that was of an alligator and it inspired me to make this. c:
Here are some rad dinosaurs that we know about because the land they were found on was protected as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Guess what land isn't protected anymore?
I have a few different badger sculptures in this forest spirit series. They will be available this Friday, July 17th at 8pm Eastern time.
New Banshee design. Because I just felt the old ones, based on Mantis insects, were not exactly what I had in mind Hope the idea is more clear now #sketch
