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Sylph264
@sylph264.bsky.social
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Hello hello! I'm a creature designer and character artist. Want some of my creatures for yourself? I have a Redbubble and Patreon where you can get prints and stickers.
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At what point is a lizard already a dragon? The horned lizard is, of course, tiny, but I think if it existed in a world with dragons, I'd look at it and consider it a draconid cousin.

#hornedlizard #dragon #artist
January 13, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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...are porcupines just oversized combat guinea pigs? New world porcupines are more closely related to them than to their old world "counterparts", so maybe! XD

#porcupine #dragon #artist
January 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Criminal though it may be to say, I'm not actually a huge fan of most sugar cookies.

Hope you all have had wonderful holidays, and if not, we're past the darkest day and we're getting more sun. Something for everyone. <3

#sugarcookie #dragon #artist
January 1, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Iiwi is not, in fact, a typo for kiwi as I first thought when I saw the word- it's a Hawaiian honeycreeper that Wikipedia calls "a highly recognizable symbol of Hawaii." Whoops. ^^;

#iiwi #dragon #artist
December 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Velvet worms are a large phylum of leggy squishy guys! Despite any visual similarity, they're not closely related to caterpillars. They're predators. >:3

#velvetworm #dragon #artist
December 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I'd never seen a barn owl in my hometown before until a few weeks ago, when one decided to park itself in the road... at night... and then fly into my lane. Buddy made an abrupt meeting with my windshield despite my best efforts with the brakes. ;-; In your honor, barn owl.

#barnowl #dragon #artist
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Have you ever heard of the kaibab squirrel? Until a patron suggested it for a dragon design, I hadn't! They're from a small region on the north rim of the Grand Canyon and aren't found anywhere else.

#kaibabsquirrel #squirrel #dragon #artist
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Giraffes have been reclassified as having four distinct species instead of a bunch of subspecies, which is awesome for conservation. This dragon's inspired by the masai. :3

#giraffe #dragon #artist
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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So my first thought when I was given the suggestion "gummy candy dragon" was gummy sharks, or maybe gummy bears... but when given the option to make a pun, I couldn't resist. Now we have a gummy wyrm and I have no regrets. XD

What's your favorite gummy candy?

#gummywyrm #dragon #artist
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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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
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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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
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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
September 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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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
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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
July 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Whether by odd mimicry or animated by a wizard with an affinity for summer sundries, this species of dragon has taken on the visage of... a flamingo pool floatie. It's said there are subspecies appearing as alligators, turtles, dolphins, and more.

#floatie #dragon #artist
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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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
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Bateleur eagles spend a considerable amount of time thermoregulating by facing the sun with their wings spread, and they also use ants as a free cleaning and pest control service. Proper dandies.

#eagle #dragon #bateleur #artist
July 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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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
July 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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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
June 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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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
June 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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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
May 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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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
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM