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Joshua Sammy
@pixelvistas.bsky.social
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Artist 🎨, character designer 👥 and ecologist 🍃 !
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It's the six of hearts! Vespula vulgaris - the common wasp. #carddesign #entomology #nature #gamedesign #playingcards #wasp #wasplove
The 6 of hearts as a common wasp (vespula vulgaris)
May 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Now a Pixelart/Pokémon-y ladybird pupa!

#ladybird #entomology #nature #pokemon #ecology #pixelart #digitalart
April 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Ladybird larva as a Pokémon concept. Which, yes, Blipbug exists, but that’s a Pokémon.

Trying to figure out what the types are - for now I’ve made it ‘carnivore’ type although maybe it could be ‘beetle’ type??

#pokemon #fanart #bugs #insects #invertebrates #nature #wildlife #pixelart #digitalart
ladybird larva pixel art
April 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Been a while since I did work on the playing cards, so here's some old concept maps of video game regions set at a microscopic scale, for the game concept 'Micromania!'
#gameart #map #gamdesign #microbiology #microscopic #gamemap #microbes #lab #petridish #eppindorf
A map of an island inside a petri dish, with cities and routes highlighted. A map inside a blood eppindorf tube, with cities and routes highlighted.
March 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Two of spades, the housefly! Two is the key card for spades, as true flies have two wings.
I didn't realise how difficult this one would be to draw! Flies are generally a lot harder than I expected.

#entomology #fly #sciart #illustration #gamedesign #carddesign #natureart #digitalart
March 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The Ace of Clubs - garden snail! This style of design will only be used for the ace in clubs - in spades (flies), it will be the two, in hearts (wasps) it will be the six, and in diamonds (spiders) it will be the eight. #malacology #entomology #gamedesign #carddesign #playingcards #illustration
March 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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To be fair, a lot of these for me are nothing to do with art and entirely to do with academia (forgetting to eat, the hunch, having too many ideas...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I feel like i'm supposed to post here to like keep up engagement but I don't know what to say and I've not done anything much recently because I've been busy.
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The King of Spades - Tanyptera atrata, or the Giant Sabre Comb-horn. Dramatic common name! This was a lot of fun to draw. #entomology #illustration #diptera #fly #nature #carddesign #gamedesign
The King of Spades aa Tanyptera atrata, the Giant Sabre Comb-horn
March 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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drawing outside in 森町 in december.
loose coloured pastel drawing of a line of tall golden/light green bamboo silhouetted against some dark pine trees behind. loose coloured pastel drawing of a river running down from mountains in the distance. The closer mountains have red autumn leaves and there is a group of reeds growing from the stones of the river bank.
March 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Repost, sorry! But I changed the font, made my own background pattern, and added a bit of shine to the heart. 💜
I'll drop the other basic cards in the comments. I finished laying the groundwork and I'm working on the next card already :3

#art #spider #bugs #inverts #bugsky #insertaninvert2024
A digital art piece of a playing card, the nine of hearts, showcasing a mirrored cellar spider that holds onto a sack of nine pristine eggs, which are golden yellow and glow with a soft light. The cellar spider gazes at the viewer with eight gleaming eyes, two of which resemble a dog's nose in the middle of their face and give them a puppy-like appearance. The other six of their eyes are like green gemstones, with prismatic hues sparkling within them. Their body, golden yellow and brown, is covered in scruffy hairs that make them look rather unkempt. Their orange legs have the same black hairs running down them. Their jaws meet in the middle of the art piece, heart-shaped and holding onto their egg sac tightly. They have a very faint pink blush on their face. Behind them, a pink background with a repeating heart pattern is overlaid with a white web, much less messy than a real cellar spider's.
March 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Day 15 of #the100dayproject, where I'm trying to fill up a sketchbook with things I love 💜

Today I drew one of my favourite Pokemon! Still a WIP, I have plans for her. This plushie has sat on my desk for years. 💜

#WIP #sketch #pokemon #pokemonart #traditionalart #bugs #inverts #bugsky #scolipede
A traditional sketch of the Pokémon scolipede, curled and poised as if ready to fight. Her long, pointed antennae are raised in front of her like horns, and her tail is curled upwards, displaying her hooked back legs. She has an intense expression. A pencil and eraser sit in the foreground, and a plush scolipede is placed next to the sketchbook, looking over the sketch with a bored expression (rude).
March 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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King of clubs - the Leopard Slug! Making the club icon was surprisingly difficult, but I'm pretty happy with what I have now. Next up is spades, which I've swapped from moths to flies because moths are too mainstream.

#entomology #limacology #gamedesign #carddesign #art #illustration #playingcards
An illustration of Limax maximus, the leopard slug, as the king of clubs
March 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Queen of diamonds - wasp spider! #arachnology #illustration #carddesign #gamedesign #entomology
Design for a Queen of Diamonds card, with Argiope bruennichi (the wasp spider) as the image.
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Here's the king of hearts (wasps), Mutilla europaea. Trying to decide on colours for the suit here... thoughts? #entomology #illustration #playingcards #carddesign #wasps #bugs
Art of Mutilla europaea, the large velvet ant, as the King of Hearts, with yellow hearts and brown text. Art of Mutilla europaea, the large velvet ant, as the King of Hearts, with yellow hearts and yellow text. Art of Mutilla europaea, the large velvet ant, as the King of Hearts, with red hearts and red text.
March 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Design concept for playing cards with diamonds as spiders. Wasps would be hearts, moths as spades and land molluscs as clubs. Probably just British species for this project! Would you be interested in this? #arachnology #illustration #playingcards #carddesign #entomology
King of Diamonds, depicting Eresus sandaliatus (the ladybird spider)
March 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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A creature design of a mammalioform mixed with a comb jelly! #creaturedesign #drawing #nature #artist
A mammalian creature looking into the sky Exploratory sketches for a creature
January 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Some inverts from Tobago
Bee Stick insect I think Spider Ant
November 19, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Bit of a sadder one (??) Drew a part of myself I explored a few weeks ago in Internal Family Systems therapy. Generally feelings of abandonment and isolation.

#therapy #selfportrait #comic #digitalart #ifs #artist
September 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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I’m working on a #deckbuilding #cardgame focussed on animals and plants in #freshwater ecosystems. I’ve done all the #art and design for the game myself, and am now going through playtesting before I try to figure out how the heck one publishes games! #gamedesign #gameart #digitalart
A brown rat near water A kingfisher A European Eel A water louse
May 24, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Just joined Bluesky, we’ll see if it goes the way of me actually using it or not 😅 I’m an artist and ecologist, currently working on a card game and also finishing my PhD!
A greater water boatman A chinese water deer A woman floating in a dreamlike landscape A woman sitting across from a spider in space
May 2, 2024 at 1:30 PM