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1 illustration project due soon for an assignment 1 really large project due soonish for a paper and I'm like ooooh now would be a great time to start another graphite illustration of rock formations that will take me 40 hours

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Technical illustration for a paper will have you going 'ah I can't wait to get home and relax from spending all day doing a graphite drawing of a bone by hmm... perhaps doing a graphite drawing of a bone'

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Technical illustration for a paper will have you going 'aaaa I have drawing of a bone due soon'

Technical illustration for a paper will have you going 'ah I can't wait to get home and relax from spending all day doing a graphite drawing of a bone by hmm... perhaps doing a graphite drawing of a bone'

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Technical illustration for a paper will have you going 'ah I can't wait to get home and relax from spending all day doing a graphite drawing of a bone by hmm... perhaps doing a graphite drawing of a bone'

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Wilkawillina Gorge, Ikara Flinders Ranges

I think it's Bonney Sandstone forming the cliff in the distance then the rocks in the foreground are Wonoka Formation.

(Curse of having to photograph graphite drawing so there's 2 closeups below)

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More graphite rock formation drawings, this one is Cathedral cave at Wellington in NSW

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Oh also I'm starting some illustrations for a palaeo paper on monday which is really exciting!

havent seen your art in Aeons and if i thought you were talented before... wow. hope youre doing ok :)

Thanks! I'm still alive haha just very busy with 3rd year and doing more infrequent larger pieces

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havent seen your art in Aeons and if i thought you were talented before... wow. hope youre doing ok :)

Thanks! I'm still alive haha just very busy with 3rd year and doing more infrequent larger pieces

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+ some closeups

More graphite rock formation drawings, this one is Cathedral cave at Wellington in NSW

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More graphite rock formation drawings, this one is Cathedral cave at Wellington in NSW

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Intertidal spider (Desis) for my assignment

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Youtube timelapses of 2 of my recent drawings:

Timelapse of Anaspides drawing. This was made in Krita recorder which unfortunately doesn't record what I do in the side dockers which I think is an important part of recording the process so it's more just a timelapse.

Timelapse and recording of process for Phreatoicopsis raffae drawing. For this I just used the 'take a screenshot' screen recorder (do not do this. for reasons that are very obvious once you see the video) so it has ended up very low resolution and with all these strange pixellation artifacts. But oh well at least it shows how I select the colours and the cursor 💀

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Anaspides, a syncaridan crustacean that lives in alpine pools and streams, or caves

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Anaspides, a syncaridan crustacean that lives in alpine pools and streams, or caves

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Drawing some ferns (this one is Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum/Kidney fern)

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Would you by any chance be willing to upload your Dasyuromorphia poster to inprnt? I have a friend with an upcoming birthday who is Obsessed with numbats, and I would love to buy an actual poster of it for her. If not, I totally understand

I'm not really sure if I can because the animals are all really closely drawn off inaturalist photos that are probably mostly non commercial licences (it started off as a practice drawing that I didn't think would turn out well enough to post so I didn't check beforehand or anything argh) but I would be all good if you like, downloaded the file and printed it off or something