🍉🌻Carlota Forte🌻🍉

20% off all skulls at Scaled Beast! Offer applies in basket 💀🦖

Not part of the poll: train doodle on my way to the dentist. I think by now it is quite obvious that I have spinosaurs on my mind… 😅

*Happily stamping away microscopic scales on a bird's foot bc there's no goddamn way I'm drawing those buggers one by one*

The world is falling apart at the seams and I must put the turbo on to paint four birds in less than a month lmao

Gonna try a new thing here and see if it works. My brother needs some help raising funds to move to a safer state. For every donation to his GoFundMe I'm offering commissions equal to the amount donated.

< £25 - Flat colour doodle or sticker
≥ £25 - Headshot
≥ £40 - Halfbody
> £55 - Fullbody

Now with a closer look at the concept art that I made ;)

I am very happy and proud I could be part of the process and hope I can contribute a little more in the future in similar productions ^^

Sailor moon with an explosion in the background. Me still believing the power of love and friendship will save us

I still believe. 🌙

Thirty, 1-inch square pencil drawings of thirty animals. They are: giant panda, right whale (bowhead whale), sugar glider, salmon, leopard gecko, comb-crested jacana, arctic fox, serval, Zempoaltepec deer mouse, southern tamandua, European asp, bridled nail-tail wallaby, liger, sea slug (_Chromodoris willani_), great blue heron, caribou, white-clawed crayfish, European earwig, silkworm, Beluga whale, spotted shag, harbour seal, black-necked swan, Kankrej cattle, echidna, sturgeon, spotted eagle ray, flamingo, mosquito, and meerkat.

Trotting this out again for #WorldWildlifeDay.
Thirty Animals, each drawn at 1" square. Pencil on marker paper, 2018.

Graphite sketch of a vaquita, the world's smallest porpoise, drawn according to scientific illustration conventions (profile, facing left, light coming from the top left corner). Text on the top left corner is drawn in cursive and reads: Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), Conservation status: CR (critical danger).

La Vaquita Marina (Phocoena sinus)

Little sketch of the world's smallest and most threatened cetacean. I'm thinking of making it a habit of posting 1h30-2h sketches like this every Tuesday.

#vaquita #sciart #cetaceans

A sculpture of the shark-like fish Cladoselache swimming over a Devonian reef of coral and braxhiopods.

Cladoselache looked like a shark, but was a different sort of fish. The ancient, Devonian swimmer was a closer relative of today’s ratfish than to sharks. Still, it was an active predator. Cladoselache gut contents include fish that were swallowed tail first, caught and gulped down. 🧪

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟

Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

+Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos!

#seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

Using leftover paint on my palette

Feels insanely distopic to make lunch and pay the bills while watching three psychopaths bomb everything around them in the Middle East.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

*Switches on the news*
*Switches off the news*
*Sits at my computer* I think I'm doing that 6 night tall ship trip this year after all. Before it's too late.

Seriously tho what the hell. This is insane. It was insane before and it's insane now. I don't have the right to complain, but Jesus Christ.

They were okay with murdering +20.000 Palestinian children, why would they have qualms about killing Iranian ones?

a pair of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushy fields. the finch on the right has some flower seeds in it's mouth.

a couple of female eurasian bullfinches foraging through bushes 🍃 i haven't worked with gouache in a minute, but fell in love all over again with this piece

art depicting megapterygius swimming just below the ocean surface

a photograph of the megapterygius holotype as it was displayed at the national museum of nature and science in tokyo

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is megapterygius, a mosasaur from late cretaceous japan. at least 5 of its posterior dorsal vertebrae have neural spines that project anterodorsally, suggesting that it may have had a dorsal fin reminiscent of some delphinoid cetaceans
(art by @adamrl.bsky.social)

in a darkened ocean, the mosasaur-like ichthyosaur thalattoarchon's gleam with ferocious glee, blood floating from its open mouth

because of this, megapterygius could be described as a mosasaur that converged on ichthyosaur-like traits, a direct contrast to thalattoarchon, a triassic ichthyosaur that converged on mosasaur-like traits
(art by @literallymiguel.bsky.social)

Art Comission by James Stryker Colors suggested by @cascoclauda :3

Outmuscled

(Argentinosaurus & co.)

Drew the new spinosaurus! And the old one while I was at it!
#spinosaurusaegyptiacus
#spinosaurusmirabilis
#sciart #paleoart

Brushstroke Practice #2

#art #digitalart #sailboat

Illustration of a fairly famous helmet, the negroli helmet, which is embossed with filigree, and Angel and some monstrous faces. It is framed by white fluffy old world roses and a spider web. Chalk and charcoal on gray paper

A Negroli helmet from 2018

anyone who fucks heavy with fish can have this in the meantime. p happy w how simple yet detailed these are lol #wip

Fossilized skull of an extinct bird-like dinosaur with a pointed snout and small teeth restricted to the tip of its jaw.

New long-snouted enantiornithean ("opposite bird") Gorgonavis alcyone: sjp.pensoft.net/article/1828... 🪶🧪 (📷 @nebreda.bsky.social et al.)

A stegosaurus standing and roaring, breath fogging around its mouth. Blood drips from its thagomizer as if they are post fight. The blood is stark against the blue and green background.

Protector of the realm 🩸

Corythosaurus - digital bust
#scicomart

New research reveals first comprehensive hypothesis of soft-tissue anatomy in ceratopsid dinosaurs. Reconstruction of Triceratops’ nasal nerves, glands & respiratory turbinates suggests unique innervation and head-cooling adaptations.
Tada et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...