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πŸͺ΄πŸŒ Min Tayza πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬πŸ¦–

@sketchy-as-fork

paleoartist with an inordinate fondness for pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and PokΓ©mon | 21 | EN, MY, DE πŸ”— twitter.com/sketchy_as_fork πŸ”— tumblr.com/sketchy-as-fork

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pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a European robin

pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a European robin

pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a Eurasian blue tit in flight

pencil on paper sketchpad labelled drawing of a Eurasian blue tit in flight

more brawings (bird drawings) familiarizing myself with passerine anatomy and wing feathers in particular

16.01.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A digital painting of a blue damselfly resting on a broken grass stem

A digital painting of a blue damselfly resting on a broken grass stem

A damselfly I painted many years ago to see if I could, and as an attempt to see if there was a market for stock images of invertebrates. A few such images actually lead to work!

#SciArt #Illustration #Art

26.12.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 206 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
A vintage watercolor plate style digital painting of a Christmas tree decorated by various pink birds and a twelve-wired bird of paradise as the star. The pink birds are: Japanese waxwing, Anna’s hummingbird, purple finch, Phillippine dwarf kingfisher, pink robin, Eurasian bullfinch, rose robin, Chilean flamingo, black rosy-finch, Jambu fruit dove and galah.

A vintage watercolor plate style digital painting of a Christmas tree decorated by various pink birds and a twelve-wired bird of paradise as the star. The pink birds are: Japanese waxwing, Anna’s hummingbird, purple finch, Phillippine dwarf kingfisher, pink robin, Eurasian bullfinch, rose robin, Chilean flamingo, black rosy-finch, Jambu fruit dove and galah.

I drew my friend a natural history illustration-style painting of a Christmas tree decorated in birds of her favorite color, pink! I chose birds from a wide range of families that are pink - otherwise it would've just ended up being a finch tree.
Which one's your favorite?

25.12.2025 13:29 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
a procession of glowing golden plesiosaurs drift across a road through a conifer forest

a procession of glowing golden plesiosaurs drift across a road through a conifer forest

pictures I painted at 3 am

3/4 β€žProcessionβ€œ

22.02.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

It was done in 20 minutes! The point of the exercise was to be quick, so I'd say i succeeded!

22.12.2025 00:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A digital drawing of a bathawk (Macheiramphus alcinus) 
watercolor portrait

A digital drawing of a bathawk (Macheiramphus alcinus) watercolor portrait

Quick bathawk study

20.12.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 950 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
Paper and pencil field sketches and notes of Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), with notes on winter juvenile features

Paper and pencil field sketches and notes of Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), with notes on winter juvenile features

Paper and pencil drawings of female and male Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) with notes of sex features. A pinned bee drawing is also on the page.

Paper and pencil drawings of female and male Common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) with notes of sex features. A pinned bee drawing is also on the page.

Pencil and paper drawing of White (pied) wagtail (Motacilla alba) with labels of wing feathers.

Pencil and paper drawing of White (pied) wagtail (Motacilla alba) with labels of wing feathers.

I. B Drawin II

sketchbook field and photo ref drawings of birds!!

17.12.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I don't, but I wish I did.

27.11.2025 00:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Print of some really weird birds… (drawn for a friend)

25.11.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 491 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

well

11.11.2025 09:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spurred on by new pterosaur paper. Iβ€˜ve been meaning to draw something like this for a while now and I wanted to get it down on paper. Pretty rough, may or may not clean it up later on.

11.11.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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pencil drawings of local birds + brown creeper!!!

19.10.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trying out Procreateβ€˜s new watercolor brushes… Iβ€˜m in love!

19.09.2025 00:35 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A drawing of a woodpecker surrounded by birch trees.

A drawing of a woodpecker surrounded by birch trees.

Woodpecker πŸͺΆ
#illustration #birdsky #nature #animalart

10.09.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 808 πŸ” 253 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

i must have replied to the wrong post but yes thank you i am πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

29.07.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

me at Superman

19.07.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thereβ€˜s more than just pterosaurs that call this habitat home. Take a closer look - how many creatures can you find?

27.06.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

close, but that’s almost halfway there!

27.06.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.)

"It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"

Because I'm a lazy, lazy man, I'm copying text from the start of my Patreon post that describes this scene. If you want to read the rest of the discussion, you need to visit https://www.patreon.com/posts/132334586 (I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid. OK, not _that_ stupid.) "It's nighttime in Early Cretaceous China, in the part of the world that will eventually be recorded as the Yixian Formation. A light dusting of snow covers the winter ground, and only the coniferous trees retain their leaves. The light of a full moon spreads through the misty sky, obscuring distant mountains but illuminating a large dinosaurian predator, Yutyrannus. It is consuming the bloodied remains of a small dinosaur that, from the silhouette, looks to have been a Psittacosaurus. Quietly surrounding the carnivore is a group of eight smaller dinosaurs: compsognathids. Their small size, long, stripy brown tails and facial masks betray them as Sinosauropteryx. They appear to be congregating in the hope of getting access to the Psittacosaurus carcass, some peering around the larger dinosaur at a respectful distance to identify pilferable morsels. The Yutyrannus is ten times their length and towers above them: surely it's best to wait until it's finished? Unless... wait: are these Sinosauropteryx enterprising opportunists, patiently waiting for the larger predator to have their fill? Or are they juveniles waiting for their parent – a tyrannosauroid – to finish with the carcass before they can have access, or even for it to provision them with food? What the heck has actually been depicted here?"

New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs

www.patreon.com/posts/132334...

26.06.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

there's so many! have you found all the little creatures?

26.06.2025 14:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you always have the words

26.06.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

omg this was not supposed to go up without alt text or a caption wtf Bluesky 😭😭

26.06.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.06.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

seeing this post right as i down a lukewarm coffee on the stand πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

11.06.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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experimenting with dappled light

08.06.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hey

06.06.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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curious sketches

14.05.2025 23:05 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A montage of fish drawings arranged in the style you'd expect for an Instagram story.

A montage of fish drawings arranged in the style you'd expect for an Instagram story.

The caption says what it says. This is from my Instagram.

20.04.2025 23:18 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

all slots have been filled. thank you everyone

02.04.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ideas for ideal comms :)

02.04.2025 11:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0