Sylph264
@sylph264.bsky.social
Hello hello! I'm a creature designer and character artist, and I post daily! Check out dA for my full gallery! <3
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The green dragontail butterfly is south and southeast Asian swallowtail butterfly sporting a beautiful glass-like section in its wings. You should look up videos of them in motion- watching those long tails move is amazing.
#dragontailbutterfly #artist #dragon
#dragontailbutterfly #artist #dragon
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The green dragontail butterfly is south and southeast Asian swallowtail butterfly sporting a beautiful glass-like section in its wings. You should look up videos of them in motion- watching those long tails move is amazing.
#dragontailbutterfly #artist #dragon
#dragontailbutterfly #artist #dragon
You know, I don't remember if I first saw a red panda in person or in Zoo Tycoon 2. I'm pretty sure our local zoo doesn't have any, but we lived in a different state when I was little and I know we went to a big city zoo before we moved. Does it count if I don't remember?
#redpanda #dragon #artist
#redpanda #dragon #artist
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This isn't the first time I've done a mud dauber dragon- the first was actually a year ago in honor of the wasps finding their way into my office. A sizeable gap had developed between the wood and glass of the windows, and a repair saw a large drop in the wasp incidents.
#wasp #dragon #artist
#wasp #dragon #artist
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Some daddy long legs are spiders, but a large number of them are arachnids but aren't spiders. But... they've got eight spindly legs, what gives? WELL, they've got a single fused body part instead of a spider's separate head (cephalothorax) and abdomen.
#daddylonglegs #artist #dragon #harvestmen
#daddylonglegs #artist #dragon #harvestmen
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Some daddy long legs are spiders, but a large number of them are arachnids but aren't spiders. But... they've got eight spindly legs, what gives? WELL, they've got a single fused body part instead of a spider's separate head (cephalothorax) and abdomen.
#daddylonglegs #artist #dragon #harvestmen
#daddylonglegs #artist #dragon #harvestmen
If you'd asked me what a monkey slug was a few days ago, I'd have guessed it was maybe a sea slug or a flower. It's the name for the hag moth's caterpillar! I suppose someone fancifully thought its "tentacles" looked like curling monkey limbs or tails.
#monkeyslug #caterpillar #dragon #artist
#monkeyslug #caterpillar #dragon #artist
September 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
If you'd asked me what a monkey slug was a few days ago, I'd have guessed it was maybe a sea slug or a flower. It's the name for the hag moth's caterpillar! I suppose someone fancifully thought its "tentacles" looked like curling monkey limbs or tails.
#monkeyslug #caterpillar #dragon #artist
#monkeyslug #caterpillar #dragon #artist
The textile cone snail has a probiscis that can fire a needle of venom that can be fatal even to humans. They're not the only snail that can be dangerous to humans, either! Just because something looks cool it doesn't mean you should touch it.
#textileconesnail #artist #dragon
#textileconesnail #artist #dragon
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The textile cone snail has a probiscis that can fire a needle of venom that can be fatal even to humans. They're not the only snail that can be dangerous to humans, either! Just because something looks cool it doesn't mean you should touch it.
#textileconesnail #artist #dragon
#textileconesnail #artist #dragon
The white-petaled skeleton flower turns transparent on contact with water, earning its name. This isn't my first skeleton flower dragon- but the last was almost four and a half years ago and was one of my first daily designs. Wild to see how my art has changed since.
#skeletonflower #dragon #artist
#skeletonflower #dragon #artist
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The white-petaled skeleton flower turns transparent on contact with water, earning its name. This isn't my first skeleton flower dragon- but the last was almost four and a half years ago and was one of my first daily designs. Wild to see how my art has changed since.
#skeletonflower #dragon #artist
#skeletonflower #dragon #artist
I found a really satisfying picture of grilled cheese halves being pulled apart that ended up the inspiration for this dragon and all the goopy cheese strung across it. I might've had a grilled cheese while working on this design. xD
#grilledcheese #artist #dragon
#grilledcheese #artist #dragon
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I found a really satisfying picture of grilled cheese halves being pulled apart that ended up the inspiration for this dragon and all the goopy cheese strung across it. I might've had a grilled cheese while working on this design. xD
#grilledcheese #artist #dragon
#grilledcheese #artist #dragon
The green hairstreak is a lovely little butterfly that comes in subtle, pale yellow-greens and green-blues, combinations that I personally really enjoy. I could've sworn I'd seen one before, but I can't find a map of their range in the US.
#hairstreak #butterfly #dragon #artist
#hairstreak #butterfly #dragon #artist
July 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The green hairstreak is a lovely little butterfly that comes in subtle, pale yellow-greens and green-blues, combinations that I personally really enjoy. I could've sworn I'd seen one before, but I can't find a map of their range in the US.
#hairstreak #butterfly #dragon #artist
#hairstreak #butterfly #dragon #artist
Butterflies get the good rep, but moths really come in so many beautiful colors and patterns and they're fluffy. The green tiger moth is found in Peru. There's a few species and all of them have woefully little information available on any of them.
#dragon #moth #artist #greentigermoth
#dragon #moth #artist #greentigermoth
June 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Butterflies get the good rep, but moths really come in so many beautiful colors and patterns and they're fluffy. The green tiger moth is found in Peru. There's a few species and all of them have woefully little information available on any of them.
#dragon #moth #artist #greentigermoth
#dragon #moth #artist #greentigermoth
The golden tortoise beetle is a golden beetle that could live in my backyard, not that I've had the pleasure of seeing one. XD For this one I didn't quite do a direct take on the beetle, but tried to combine the beetle, some more tortoise-like elements, and the dragon.
#dragon #beetle #artist
#dragon #beetle #artist
June 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Have you ever heard of romanesco broccoli? It's a cultivar of cauliflower and it comes in a a cool spiral shape, a natural almost-fractal, and it joins cauliflower and broccoli in being an enlarged and edible flower bud of the species Brassica oleracea.
#broccoli #dragon #artist
#broccoli #dragon #artist
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There are six species of feather-horned beetles and apparently none have been very well studied, but only males have the big fancy antenna and they're used (somehow) to pick up female pheromones. However that works, it looks awfully fancy.
#beetle #featherhornedbeetle #artist #dragon
#beetle #featherhornedbeetle #artist #dragon
May 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
There are six species of feather-horned beetles and apparently none have been very well studied, but only males have the big fancy antenna and they're used (somehow) to pick up female pheromones. However that works, it looks awfully fancy.
#beetle #featherhornedbeetle #artist #dragon
#beetle #featherhornedbeetle #artist #dragon
Guarana Antarctica is a soda made with a fruit from the Amazon, also called guarana. To hear people describe it it sounds somewhat citrusy and is a pretty mildly flavored drink, but I've never had it myself. Have any of you had it before? What's it like?
#dragon #artist #guarana #soda
#dragon #artist #guarana #soda
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Guarana is both a fruit native to the Amazon basin and common in Brazil, and also a soda made with the fruit.
I'd never heard of it until a friend who'd lived in Brazil for gave me a recipe for Brazilian stroganoff and said I *had* to have guarana with it.
#guarana #soda #dragon #artist
I'd never heard of it until a friend who'd lived in Brazil for gave me a recipe for Brazilian stroganoff and said I *had* to have guarana with it.
#guarana #soda #dragon #artist
April 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Tardigrades are resilient micro-animals known as "water bears" or "moss piglets", but I'll have you know I came up with better nicknames while working on this dragon. Legged Jabba the Hutt. Corpulent caterpillar with a peashooter face. The great chungus.
#tardigrade #dragon #artist
#tardigrade #dragon #artist
April 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Tardigrades are resilient micro-animals known as "water bears" or "moss piglets", but I'll have you know I came up with better nicknames while working on this dragon. Legged Jabba the Hutt. Corpulent caterpillar with a peashooter face. The great chungus.
#tardigrade #dragon #artist
#tardigrade #dragon #artist
I'm not entirely sure why they might call the flamingo leafwing butterfly a flamingo leafwing. Some pictures of them made the orange on the dorsal side of their wings flash pink, but I can't tell if those have been edited or not. xD
#butterfly #dragon #artist
#butterfly #dragon #artist
April 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I'm not entirely sure why they might call the flamingo leafwing butterfly a flamingo leafwing. Some pictures of them made the orange on the dorsal side of their wings flash pink, but I can't tell if those have been edited or not. xD
#butterfly #dragon #artist
#butterfly #dragon #artist
Did you know tumbleweeds are more than just set dressing for Westerns? Like dandelion seed fluff, they're a part of a plant used to disperse seeds. And like dandelions, they capture the hearts of minds of the people, but instead of wishes, they grant ambience.
#tumbleweed #dragon #artist
#tumbleweed #dragon #artist
April 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Did you know tumbleweeds are more than just set dressing for Westerns? Like dandelion seed fluff, they're a part of a plant used to disperse seeds. And like dandelions, they capture the hearts of minds of the people, but instead of wishes, they grant ambience.
#tumbleweed #dragon #artist
#tumbleweed #dragon #artist
This is only tangentially relevant to mac n cheese, but did you know the US government stores massive amounts of cheese underground? I thought this was common knowledge for years because I grew up near some cheese storage and I've even visited it.
#cheese #macncheese #dragon #artist
#cheese #macncheese #dragon #artist
March 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is only tangentially relevant to mac n cheese, but did you know the US government stores massive amounts of cheese underground? I thought this was common knowledge for years because I grew up near some cheese storage and I've even visited it.
#cheese #macncheese #dragon #artist
#cheese #macncheese #dragon #artist
Have you heard of the wooly devil? It's a new plant recently discovered in Big Bend national park in the US! It's distinct enough it's even been given its own genus in the daisy family. Its scientific name Ovicula biradiata basically means two-petaled tiny sheep.
#woolydevil #plant #dragon #artist
#woolydevil #plant #dragon #artist
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Have you heard of the wooly devil? It's a new plant recently discovered in Big Bend national park in the US! It's distinct enough it's even been given its own genus in the daisy family. Its scientific name Ovicula biradiata basically means two-petaled tiny sheep.
#woolydevil #plant #dragon #artist
#woolydevil #plant #dragon #artist
Hiya! If you like what I do and want to support me, please consider joining my Patreon to support my work. <3 Check out the link in my bio by the end of the day March 7th to get these exclusive prints and stickers!
#patreon #stickers #prints #dragon #artist #anatomicalheart #valentines
#patreon #stickers #prints #dragon #artist #anatomicalheart #valentines
March 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hiya! If you like what I do and want to support me, please consider joining my Patreon to support my work. <3 Check out the link in my bio by the end of the day March 7th to get these exclusive prints and stickers!
#patreon #stickers #prints #dragon #artist #anatomicalheart #valentines
#patreon #stickers #prints #dragon #artist #anatomicalheart #valentines
I love gentle grays and white as a palette on animals and morning skies- it makes them look so soft to the touch.
#dragon #japanesewagtail #artist
#dragon #japanesewagtail #artist
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I love gentle grays and white as a palette on animals and morning skies- it makes them look so soft to the touch.
#dragon #japanesewagtail #artist
#dragon #japanesewagtail #artist