For those of you who are visual artists, do you like to draw/paint anything from nature?

[wildwestnature]

We like to draw small tiles and fill them in to make birds and trees and sometimes words

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[steven_bach]

I like to make bird themed digital art, subjects are mostly local species. I was in an Art Nouveau phase for a while.

[jasonhernandez74]

@quixel

only native birds I have specifically seen on that tree

I suggest an identification: Yellow-rumped Warbler

[quixel]

Oh, I live in Melbourne Australia, and I don’t think that bird is found here. The drawing was actually supposed to be of a New Holland Honeyeater, though I understand why you though it was that warbler, as the proportions and colours are probably a little off. :)

[jasonhernandez74]

@quixel

I live in Melbourne Australia, and I don’t think that bird is found here.

Well, that explains the parrot that was confusing me.

[quixel]

Yes That’s a Crimson Rosella I’ll finish one day. Saw it years ago in my garden, just once.

[jasonhernandez74]

@jasonhernandez74

My art combines fantasy and reality. I will make the main subject a fantasy one – fay-folk, perhaps, or people from an imaginary past – and place them in a setting of real species of flora (and sometimes fauna). I might play with the relative scale, too.

@sunguramy

and yet you don’t show us? i want to see

Okay, as requested:

The ducks are a real species – Blue-winged Teal – but the fantasy element comes from the relative scales of the children and the ducks.

Here is a simpler one, just pencil:

The fantasy here lies in the anachronism – Parasaurolophus was a real genus of dinosaurs, but it did not live during any time in human history. (Nor did people in ancient times wear modern shoes.)

One more:

In my teen years, I went through a “fish period,” and this is representative of that time. These fishes are not to scale, nor would they ever all be in the same place in reality.

[owlshead-wren]

@jasonhernandez74

Parasaurolophus was a real genus of dinosaurs, but it did not live during any time in human history.

… nor did it have separate fingers or backwards-facing toes (the feet were hoof-like) or a snake-like neck ;P (just giving you a hard time, I love reconstructions that take creative liberties)

[fffffffff]

Drawing is everything, though mostly it’s just a thing to waste energy, so I don’t have much to show, there’s little (none) finished stuff, some of those are icons of iNat projects and one silly bird.)

[sixzzled]

Hey there,

I went across this thread https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/for-those-of-you-who-are-visual-artists-do-you-like-to-draw-paint-anything-from-nature/33808?page=2 wanted to share some of my art pieces, but couldn’t reply there. So started a new thread.

I am sharing some of my art pieces which I wood burned

[thebeachcomber]

welcome to the forum; I reopened the topic and merged your post into it
great art!

[Thunderhead]

These are incredible!

[bitsnbirds]

Since I began to draw when I was like 8, I would constantly draw birds. I had this chunky encyclopedia of birds of the world, I would close my eyes and flip through to a random entry and draw the bird in my cartoonish style.

Since then, I have expanded out into realism birds and insects and do studies of other animals’ anatomy, like snakes and otters, for personal projects.

Like that’s a section of one of my latest and best works to date. I love using colouring pencil. The details and preciseness you can get out of it is the best.

However, one thing I like to pride myself on is my anthropomorphized insect worldbuilding project, where I play around with different bugs and see how they would fit into a fantasy sort of setting.

This one was just where I got a random bug family off some online generator and picked as randomly as I could a bug from iNat, and I got Mellinus arvensis. This was mainly an exercise and me trying to stem off of usual bugs like butterflies and scarabs an design the anatomy of a different family.

And so I tried to design them as a sentient sort of person (if that’s even the right word) and came out with this after a TON of studies. Here she is holding a poor unfortunate fly in a bag. I mean, a bug’s gotta eat to live. :P

[bitsnbirds]

Wow, that’s awesome!

I especially love it when it’s not photo realistic, and you can see some of the artist’s style intermingled into it, giving it that extra bit of charm. :)

[DebbieK]

Yes, but I use vitreous enamel.

I also make flowers.

[sixzzled]

I handdrew this art with the help of a wood burning kit and a little bit of knowledge from pyrography from blogs like: pyrogravure.org, burnsavvy, pyrocrafters .

[aldulfin]

i wouldn’t say what i draw is inspired by what i see, necessarily, but i do draw animals !

[jasonhernandez74]

@owlshead-wren

@jasonhernandez74

Parasaurolophus was a real genus of dinosaurs, but it did not live during any time in human history.

… nor did it have separate fingers or backwards-facing toes (the feet were hoof-like) or a snake-like neck ;P (just giving you a hard time, I love reconstructions that take creative liberties)

You have inspired me to rework it – although the scan didn’t come out as well this time.

Having looked at recostructions of Parasaurolophus, I think I came closer to its real feet. Also, the bridle and reins weren’t working, and anyway they aren’t necessary.