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no-car-tomorrow.bsky.social
Art and Arthropods
@no-car-tomorrow.bsky.social
🟩 Working on mythological creatures and scientific illustration

🟩 I draw plants, houses, hands, and portraits

🟩 Ukrainian, living in Germany
languages ua/de/en
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An elusive subject for Illustration - mythological creatures.
How can you depict a creature that can shapeshift? What do you do if a creature is always described differently? What if every creature is just a version of chort?
Series of illustrations based on ethnological studies
#art #mythology
Value and composition sketches
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Композиційні скетчі. Як називають українською "value" в малюванні знає хтось? я вчився малювати по англомовним туторіалам і не знаю 😐

#украрт #art #sketch
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
дві перші сторінки з мого зіну про горобину для ботанічного саду в Німеччині
моя бакалаврська робота (тобто її частина)

#mehlbeere #горобина #sciart
December 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Привіт! дякую за артшер
я роблю ілюстрації з міфічними істотами та на природничі теми.

поки що готові 6 ілюстрацій з українськими духами природи, через місяць почну працювати над ще шістьма з чортами. Джерело для проєкту - "Нарис української міфології" Володимира Гнатюка.
#украрт #міфологія
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
is it already art, or something still missing?

leaf of Karpatiosorbus franconica (continue working with sorbus)

#art #collage
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Polyovyk is a field spirit. It can only be seen in its true form when it's sleeping (as shown in the illustration), and only by an unbaptised person. Otherwise Polyovyk presents itself as any kinde of animal that lives in the fields.

#art #mythology
December 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sorbus hohenesteri N. Mey.
Syn.: Hedlundia hohenesteri (N. Mey.) Sennikov & Kurtto

Hohenester-Mehlbeere

Die Hohenester Mehlbeere ist eine der seltensten Baumarten der Welt. Sie ist ein Lokalendemit – wächst nur in eng begrenztem gebiet in Franken. Von Aussterben bedroht.

#art #sciart #mehlbeere
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Reposted by Art and Arthropods
DAY 195
SPECIES 195 - Haloquadratum walsbyi
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, HWC Watercolor. Sakura pen

Haloquadratum walsbyi translates to Salt Square

#sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Echte Mehlbeere
Aria edulis

#illustration #sketch #botanical_illustration
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Lisun – shepherd of wolves, a nature spirit. On the night before Yuriy's day he gathers all wolves and feeds them with magic bread.

Once Lisun gave a piece of that bread to a poor man, and he was never hungry since: the bread was regrowing itself and could be eaten forever.

#art #mythology
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Turning topographic map into texture, its starting to look better

did you know you can get topographic maps for the whole Bayern for free?

#art #sketch #maps
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Lisovyk is a forest spirit, shepherd of the animals. Usually imagined as an old man with forest features, but at one instance was described as a “white chort", who celebrates Ivan Kupalo night, and that's how I depicted him here, with a fern flower.

#art #mythology
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Vodyanyk is a water spirit, shepherd of the fresh water creatures. Lives in lakes and rivers. Some say that he is like a man but with a huge tail and wings, others that he looks like an old man with a beard.
Can be both friendly and malicious towards humans.

#art #mythology
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
6 ukrainian nature spirits.

Compressing myth into a single picture - before there were endless possibilities, now there is only one. One for every of those 6 spirits. People were telling stories about them, but nobody imagined them exactly like this, until I did.

#art #mythology
October 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
An elusive subject for Illustration - mythological creatures.
How can you depict a creature that can shapeshift? What do you do if a creature is always described differently? What if every creature is just a version of chort?
Series of illustrations based on ethnological studies
#art #mythology
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#mehlbeere #botanical_art #sketchbook #erlangen
Mehlbeeren im botanischen Garten Erlangen, mit Regenbogenbuntstift gezeichnet
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
August 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Cichorium
Цикорій
Wegwarten
January 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
drawing
January 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM