Olena Shmahalo
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Olena Shmahalo
@natureintheory.bsky.social
✦ #SciArt #3Dart #Physics
✦ Previously the establishing Art Director of Quanta Magazine

https://linktr.ee/NatureInTheory
https://www.OlenaShmahalo.com
✦ Art-Only Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/natureintheory.bsky.social/feed/aaadycj4x6e72

❌ NO AI
If you use #CSP and have favorite v3-4 updates not to be missed, LMK! Because I cannot read all these pages right now 😵‍💫

Good thing they made a video thumbnail for that one or I would've missed it.

Better snapping is a godsend too:
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Oooh love a good QOL update!* I'd been wanting this feature Procreate has #clipstudiopaint #csp
www.clipstudio.net/en/dl/releas...

I generally hate updating. Usually screws things up → hours of work-time lost to fixing. Thus, getting July update in November xD

*On that note, our new Mayor too 😄🎉
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
OMG

THAnk YOU @procreate.com !

Lasso. Fill. Planned!!!!!!!!! 😍
folio.procreate.com/discussions/...
September 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just some hungry chickadees I drew for a Nature article D:

share.google/images/v3VFN...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#SciArt #graphics #neuroscience #chickadees
🧪 🐦 🧠
September 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
xD this is what I do to overcome this problem.

PureRef. It's the best.
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm late to the party but 1. the phrase "clanker slop" is very funny

2. 🥹🤭:
September 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
July 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What I've been saying.
July 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
When you find your own work out in the wild and wonder wtf people have going on with their radioactive saturation settings.

Saw this & exclaimed "WHY DID U DO THIS, WHO DID THIS??" 😂🥲🫠

Related: yesterday I found someone photoshopped a gorilla into one of my old things 🤣 whyyyy
July 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
July 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Among other things I'm behind on sharing:

I made an #infographic & illos for @sciam.bsky.social about star-death by black hole! 🌠⚫💀

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Thanks to graphics-master @jenchristiansen.com for the project & guidance!

#SciArt #illustration #NoAI
#physics ⚛️ 🔭 🧪
June 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
2003 - 2022

Fuck 🖕 AI
May 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM
The character vs how you [sculpted] the character
May 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just a couple of weird sketches that didn't work out, but I like 'em. ⚛️🕸️🌱
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Really liking the look of the top rows of new work on my site right now! ✨

www.olenashmahalo.com

#SciArt #SciViz #SciComm #NoAI
#physics #astronomy #illustration
May 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Don't worry, weird total stranger, you never have to see my humor again thanks to the nice block button.

Wtf is this overreaction though? 😂 Yikes
May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is a just crop, but I'd been thinking about reformatting the original into a more print-friendly size. But how're interest levels for prints of physics potions flowing into an AGN in a space-cauldron? 😂

#SciArt #illustration #NoAI
#astrophysics #physics #science #scicomm
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May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So excited to share of my favorite recent projects! ✨ Got to illustrate another article by @astrokatie.com for BBC Science Focus, about the ingredients that make up astrophysical jets →

www.olenashmahalo.com/project/agn-...

#SciArt #illustration #NoAI
#astrophysics #physics #science #scicomm
⚛️ 🔭 🧪
May 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you see this, post a dragon! 🐉✨
April 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Anybody else need to gaze at a soothing sphere today?

Yeah well... no promises / not responsible for any add'l anxiety induced by this ripply wobbler ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#3Dart #C4D
March 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Art about hard science (see ALT). I love using magical aesthetics to emphasize the wonder of natural phenomena.

#SciArt #physics #astrophysics
🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🧮
March 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The proton was modeled with gluons (using the Y shape, not triangle (E.g. ALT)). But it's blurry; the cloudy appearance took precedence. Since this was originally for an editorial article header, it's just meant to convey the "particle sea", not ID / explain particulars as a figure/graphic would.
March 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
3D animation / sim of a the antimatter sea inside a proton particle. Originally for Quanta, 2021.

INFO →
www.olenashmahalo.com/project/prot...

#SciArt #physics #particlephysics 🧪 ⚛️
#3D #3Dart #C4D #mograph #NoAI
February 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
lol + with ALT +

1. Yes developing one consistent style makes your life as a working artist easier in some ways

2. However as AD, I've worked w/ ppl with multiple styles & it's super easy to just ask "Can you please do it like THIS one".

(Likewise as artist, fine to ask me for that!)
February 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM