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Brooke
@highguality.bsky.social
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Sometimes I look at my old posts and cringe. I'm still cringe though, just in cooler ways now.

I love paleontology, science fiction, and women.
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Just a random mindless doodle, completely nonsense, but I figured I should still post it since it's still me practicing art. So here you go the internet.
A very crude drawing of a snail with a human face pointing a sniper rifle or telescope or something like that at a person drawn only from the waste up with sharp teeth, wings, and I guess a sea shell necklace. This was stream of consciousness doodling, so I'm not honestly completely sure what I drew.
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Day 16 of working to become a better artist. Took me about 50 minutes to draw this portrait of my beloved Sorawo Kamikoshi from Otherside Picnic. One of the better faces that I've been able to do on the fly, but they eyes are tough. The jawline also feels off to me.
A picture from the neck up of the character Sorawo Kamikoshi from the series Otherside Picnic. She is a woman with short, dark brown hair. She has a rather blank expression. She is wearing glasses, usually depicted as red, but I didn't feel like coloring them here. She also has heterochromia, with her left eye being brown and her right eye being an extremely unnatural shade of blue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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There are so many options, but I always come back to this depiction of Edmontosaurus by Ely Kish. The way the water and stumps obscure the animal gives the piece a more naturalistic feel. It being in an environment as contemporary as a cypress forest makes it feel all the more real and tangible
Edmontosaurus by Ely Kish. This painting depicts a late Cretaceous swamp featuring a forest of cypress trees. Between the tree a greenish-yellow Edmontosaurus can be seen wading through that reaches up to its hip. It is seen eating some sort of aquatic plants, dripping with water. A light layer of fog is also dispersed between the tree in the background.
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Day 15 of working to become a better artist. Haven't done this in too long. Finished Ward a couple weeks back and though parts of it were rough, I really loved it a lot overall. Anyway here's a very very quick doodle of Sveta.
A simple digital painting of Sveta Karelia from the parahumans series, specifically her appearance in the second webserial Ward. She has long dark hair and a plain white face with the tattoo of a stylized C facing upwards on her left cheek. The looks vaguely like the upper case Greek letter omega, but upside down. Her body cuts off just below the shoulder and is painted blue as a base, with painted swirls of varying colors overlapping over the rest of her body. The background is white.
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Day 14 of working to become a better artist. A quick portrait of a character of mine. Her name is Faith Malisent and she's a trans woman that ran away from home in a space opera setting. The proportions are kinda wack, but I think I'm getting better at faces.
Portrait of a woman with dark brown hair sideswept over the left side of her face. She has light brown eyes and a cybernetic implant on the right side of her face.
June 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Day 13 of working to become a better artist. Today's art is concept art for one my less developed story idea. The mood I want to capture is definitely partially there, but it's really held back by my poor grasp of lighting.
A woman with purple hair, a green jacket, and blue pants stares into an aquarium in an empty room. Below the aquarium is an orange sign, presumably describing information inside the aquarium. Inside the aquarium is the extinct crinoid Scyphocrinus. The woman is backlit by an open door.
June 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Day 12 of working to be a better artist. I worked on some other stuff too, but nothing finished, so here's a stream of consciousness drawing.
An abstract work of a art. Two large beings interact. One tall, stands on a coiled tail and possesses a beak. A tongue protrudes from the body and the beak holds up a sign with a smiley face. The tongue drips down an indeterminate fluid. From the fluid sprouts a large silhouette of a hand and a crowd of small stick figure people. Below it, looking up and sprawled out is a long being with a rounded end with a large single eye and a sharp stubby tail. It has many small legs and trees sprouting from its back. It also has a single large visible arm and hand. Above the lower figure is the phrase "Father Please" written in cursive. The background is a dark yellow.
June 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Day 11 of working to become a better artist. Nothing too fancy here, just a painting of a Coelophysis that I did in like 20 minutes and it shows. First time approached it by doing it all on one layer though, which was cool. One day I'll do a great Coelophysis, I think of it as a my benchmark taxon
Head and neck of a very simplistic looking coelophysis. It is green with a yellow stripe moving from it's eye down it's neck on either side of it's body.
June 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The Tightpussy name has a surprising amount of reach in the right places
A quick edit of the meme "celebrities shop too," originally a comic by mysillycomics. Title: celebrities shop too mysillycomics Panel One: "at the store" A person approaches a can of peaches "..... peach time" Panel Two: Two hands reach for the peaches at the same time. Panel Three: "ah! so sorry!" Katie Tightpussy's profile picture Panel Four: The original person from panel one stammers "k... katie tightpussy..."
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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A promo image for Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction with Jonathan Frakes smiling at the camera. The tagline has been edited to say “Based Beyond Belief”
June 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I don't know what this is. I just drew.
A tree like structure with a face in place of branches and leaves. The face has four spindly appendages extending from it. On the ground is a field of simplistic flowers and a stick figure on their hands and knees before the tree thing. The sky is reddish brown.
June 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Day 10 of working to become a better artist. It's been too long since I did any art, just needed to do something. So anyway here's a quick portrait of Skitter from parahumans that I did in like 20 minutes.
Portrait of the character of Taylor Hebert in her Skitter costume from the webserial Worm in the Parahumans series. It is a simple sketch of a girl with dark hair and dark outfit wearing a mask that resembles an insect head. The mask has golden eyes and a structure resembling mandibles.
June 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Day 9 of working to become a better artist. Oh my goodness this took entirely too long, but I had this idea over the weekend and had to make it. There's a lot more that could be done, but I want to move on to something else, I did learn a lot about faces, perspective, and gestures though.
The characters of Rachel Amber and Chloe Price from the video game Life is Strange are standing next to each other in the background while in the foreground the character of Max Caulfield from the same game is walking by with her gray hoodie zipped up. Rachel Amber is blonde, wearing a flannel and torn jeans. Chloe has blue hair, pronouns, a brown coat, a tank top with a skull illustration, and patchwork jeans. Max Caulfield looks surprised in reaction to Rachel and Chloe. Chloe is sticking her hand in her mouth to do a wolf whistle and Rachel has raised her hands to shout out "NICE TITS!" at Max. In the background is the banger skeet that inspired this particular piece. The post is by Bluesky user Katie Tightpussy stating: any time i see a trans person in public i always go out of my way to compliment them but if i see a "boymoder" wearing a dysphoria hoodie i wolf whistle and compliment their tits
April 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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April 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Hood down, Wretch out.

Day 8 of working to become a better artist. I have not yet finished Ward, but I've been wanting to draw Victoria Dallon in her Antares outfit. The spikes aren't super practical, but I love the look of armor over a hoodie.
Victoria Dallon dressed in her Antares costume from the webserial Ward in the Parahumans series. She is a blonde woman with blue eyes wearing spiky gold armor over a dark hoodie. She is hovering a sidewalk by a road and is surrounded by desctruction caused by her invisible forcefield, the Wretch. The asphalt of the road has indentations from aimlessly grabbing hands, a light post has been bent under the force of the Wretch, and a broken wooden plank and pipe hover over the ground in the grasp of the Wretch.
April 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Long time no post, but I guess here's day 7 of working to be better at art. Nothing special here, just a quick sketch of midnight in the Morrison Formation.
A rough and quick sketch in dark blue with a large sauropod and small bipedal dinosaur set against a darker backdrop with stars in the sky.
March 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Oh shoot, I forgot alt text, reposted here with alt text.
The character Tattletale from the parahumans webseries. She has her left hand on her hip and her right hand is held out with the palm facing up in a gesture of explaining something, but with a snarky touch.
February 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Drawing and posting every day (or close to it (hopefully)) until I become a better artist - Day 6: Tattletale from the webserials Worm and Ward.

Doing a human instead of dinosaur, this took me a lot longer. I think it went decent, but the hands are too small and the hair is wonky.
February 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Meme of a guy in boxing clubs ready to fight followed by an image of the same 3d model sitting down and drinking water. The first caption says "ok ima fight becoming a better artist" and the second caption says "damn hands got hands"
February 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Drawing and posting every day (or close to it (hopefully)) until I become a better artist - Day 5: Triceratops prorsus

No deep thoughts on this one, but pleased with how I'm doing.
A green triceratops with orangeish spots.
February 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Drawing and posting every day (or close to it (hopefully)) until I become a better artist - Day 4: Microraptor gui sitting

Probs my best looking work yet, the feathers were really fun to work with.
A full body illustration of a Microraptor gui with the body facing away and head turned to face the viewer.
February 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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repost with a pic you saved but haven’t found a use for
A toy I saw in a grocery store once of a little green person made of rubber. The packaging has “smush me, crush me” and “I can take it” written on it. Which I find very amusing, but don’t honestly know when I would ever use it.
February 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Drawing and posting every day (or close to it (hopefully)) until I become a better artist - Day 2: Saurolophus angustirostris head above a body of water with a turtle.

I wish I spent more time on this, but I'm pleased with how some of the shading turned out.
A brown saurolophus head hangin over a body of water. A turtle can be seen below.
February 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Drawing and posting every day (or close to it (hopefully)) until I become a better artist - Day 2: Stegosaurus Approaching a Cycad for Dinner.

Cool trying to add details manually instead of using a brush. The perspective and size references are way off. Also I have no clue how to do a background.
Arid landscape with a blue stegosaurus in the distance approaching a cycad near a small pond.
February 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM