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Cerra Alba
@cerra-alba.bsky.social
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Lvl.25 Artist/Gamer

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My finished tile! Mine was a green tile kit, so I had to follow a palette ratio of ~80% greens. This inspired me to paint a Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura), a solitary bee species native to eastern North America!

#Art #SciArt #Painting #Bees #Insects #Bugs #MuralMosaic #GlobalRootsProject
An acrylic painting of a Pure Green Sweat Bee (scientific name Augochlora Pura) on a green background
December 30, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Setting up to paint my mural tile for Global Roots Project! The tile kit was gifted to me for Christmas, and after learning about this project, I am so excited to be a part of it this year!

#Art #MuralMosaics #GlobalRootsProject #ChristmasGift
Photograph of a small blank canvas propped up on a mini-easel behind acrylic paint pots. Infront is a postcard from Mural Mosaics Global Roots Project.
December 29, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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December has been a busy busy month, so I haven't had the chance to post, but I absolutely had to share these Turkish mosaic lamps my partner and I made at Mosaic Studio in Ottawa for our anniversary!

#art #glass #mosaic #ottawa #anniversary #love
December 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Practicing my portraits because drawing people is hard. Using this photo of Brazilian model Ana Flavia as a ref. It's only lineart/sketch right now but I would appreciate any tips or feedback, I'm trying to improve!

#Art #Portrait #ArtShare #DigitalArt #Sketch #Drawing #LineArt
December 5, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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After getting our first snowfall here on the 1st I felt like breaking out some of my chilly feeling art. Not sure what to call the style but I do love these little parrot-looking penguins.
(Also trying out some watermarking- too distracting?)

#Art #Winter #DigitalArt #ClipStudio #Snow #Penguin
A drawing of an adult and baby penguin in a simple and geometric style against a dark cyan background
December 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Finished painting this Black Lotus token for a Garth One-Eyed EDH deck! I'm quite happy with how it came out, though I need to work on my lettering. I'm also trying out a new signature, let me know what you think!

#Art #Painting #MTG #Games #TCG #Cards #Alter #Proxy #Flowers #MagicTheGathering
A magic the gathering card which has been painted over with acrylic paints to resemble the card "Black Lotus". The primary Lotus is on a soft pink background at the top of the card and is growing out of the lower half which has a field of pink lotus and green lotus leaves in it
December 3, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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Just some quick local promo, here's the business cards I grabbed at #GamerCon of some lovely #Ottawa #artists
December 1, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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The con today had so many talented Pokemon artists but not nearly enough Torterra representation so I just had to come home and spruce up one of my old Pokemon symbiosis designs! Here's Torterra and Trevenant

#Art #Pokemon #Games #Illustration #DigitalArt
December 1, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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Looking through my backlog of unsorted art again and came across this illustration of a porcupine overwintering in a white pine tree. Did you know porcupines climb trees? You can tell which trees have a spiky friend in them by the pile of droppings that builds up at the trunk!

#Art #SciArt #Drawing
A black and white illustration of a white pine tree with a porcupine resting on the lowest branch
November 30, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Checking out #GamerCon in Ottawa today! So excited for a local con

#convention #games #Ottawa
November 30, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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New info has just been published by the worlds leading slime researcher! We know more about slime anatomy now than ever before. (No slimes were harmed in the collection of this data - it helps that they are transparent)

#art #sciart #fanart #slimes #poring #ragnorkonline #games #illustraton #anthro
A fictitious textbook page describing the anatomical differences in the nervous systems of two fantasy creatures, a slime and a humanoid slime woman. The Image contains illustrated diagrams of both organisms and the following text: "Anatomy of a Slime (woman) Nervous System The transparent nature of the Poring Slime makes clear to any observer that there are no visible structures associated with a central nervous system. However, the slimes still display some levels of intelligence. These observations have led researchers to speculate that the gelatinous filling of the slime is itself capable of neurotransmission. Much like it's smaller counterpart, the Slime Woman is also lacking a visible brain and nerves. Despite this, Slime Women are known to have a human-level intelligence and are capable of speaking, problem solving, and advanced learning. Being ahead of the Poring Slime intellectually contributes to the theory of slime intelligence as their larger size means they contain considerably more gel. The only brain structure present for both the Poring Slime and the Slime Woman are the eyes. Both organisms have two forward-facing eyeballs without any signs of an optical nerve. The Slime Woman has eyes similar in structure to human eyes, while Poring Slimes seem to have more rudimentary eyes. Cerra Alba Slime Research Institute 2024"
November 29, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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I'm def one of the people who spent more time doodling than studying in school. I think this little spiral bird first came to be in an algebra notebook. I still like it so here's a cleaned up digital version I made last night.

#art #digital #digitalart #bird #birdart
A digital illustration of a stylized crane drawn with spirals out of a single black line and coloured with a yellow-red-black gradient on a white background. The bird is standing on one leg with it's neck and head stretched upwards and its wings folded in.
November 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Needing some cozy game time today so I'm trying out Palia. I know nothing about the game but it looks so cute! Any tips?

#cozygame #game #palia #character
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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After a busy weekend, it was nice to sit down and draw this cutie.
I've been hooked on Ragnorok Online lately and just love the idea of a little poring novice going out into the world to start her own adventure!

#art #fanart #drawing #OC #gaming #game #ragnorok #ragnorokonline #poring #slime
November 25, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Unfinished 10

I think I'll stop with this one for today, a pose i tried drawing for some perspective and forshortening practice that never got her other arm..

#art #sketch #practice
November 21, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Whoa, not sure what happened to the photo here.. let's try this again:
November 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Unfinished 9/??

The start of some Rapunzel Tangled Adventure fanart. Still adore the music from that series!!

#art #sketch #fanart
November 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Unfinished 8/??

This mash up got more of its lines inked before I moved on. Why is it a mantis/angel fusion monster? No clue! Year? 2016?? I think???

#art #lineart #mantis
November 21, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Unfinished 7/??

An old self portrait this time! The sketch is faint and noses are hard but I think it's kinda accurate for 2020 me?

#art #sketch #portrait
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Unfinished 6/??

Honestly not sure what was going on with this one... 2019 was a heck of a year

#art #eyes
November 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Unfinished 5/??

Looks like I started to dabble with charcoal at some point in 2019? I'd certainly make some changes to this snake hydra if I were to remake him today but I don't hate it

#art #drawing #charcoal #snake
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Unfinished 4/??

Another one who got a bit of colour back in the day! No clue what year he's from but this little frog has certainly been waiting for his leaf for quite a while

#art #drawing #frog
November 21, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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Unfinished 3/??
This one certainly got further than some others, a completed sketch and some colours! before being dropped back in 2017..

#art #sketch #nature
November 21, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Unfinished 2/??

Back in time to 2018? Maybe? When I gave up on shading this fluffy friend

#art #cat #drawing
November 21, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Unfinished 1/??

Starting off with my most recent art block: I love this croc/serpent/dragon concept, but for some reason, I got stuck as soon as I started to ink him

#art #sketch #crocodile #dragon #serpent #drawing
November 21, 2024 at 6:43 PM