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PolkaDot
@polkadotdead.bsky.social
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Neuroscience and art lover! || I draw stuff! || Trying to become a scientific illustrator :) ||
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been a hot sec since i’ve posted sry :). here’s a new piece tho! it’s called “Searching” and depicts a liver biopsy. i tried to make it kinda in the madoka magica style since the new gatcha game just came out and im obsessed with the art.

#art #procreate #liver #sciart
a red cartoony liver with a gray wrinkly and scarred liver barely visible behind it. both livers are encased in a rib cage floating in a blue void. yellow lines of light come out of the bottom of the liver and seven white lines enter through the rib cage into the liver, implying the biopsy needle.
April 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Attempt at sketching prairie voles! They’re super cute and i really need to figure out a good style to do them in

also their legs are kinda weird, idk how to make them look normal

#art #sciart #critiqueplease #neuroscience
two prairie voles, the one on the left is standing on its hind legs and is just a rough sketch in green. the one on the right is hunched over, maybe eating something. it is somewhat rendered and fluffy looking but has weird looking hands and feet.
January 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS (borzois are basically human if you squint), use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

borzois are freaky i love them

#art
one of those lanky long nosed dogs (borzoi) staring straight at you. it’s on a stair step and only three legs are visible. the art style is sketchy with a red outline and kinda teal lineart on a black background. the dog is a pale purple and has glowing white dots on its eyes.
January 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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sketch with an art style i’ve been wanting to get back into :)

#art #horror #sketch #dog
one of those lanky long nosed dogs staring straight at you. it’s on a stair step and only three legs are visible. the art style is sketchy with a red outline and kinda teal lineart on a black background. the dog is a pale purple and has glowing white dots on its eyes.
January 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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this is the wild thing. he’s so decrepit and nasty
a nasty little fursuit of a wild thing from where the wild things are. it’s like 9 ft tall at least and looks tired. it’s got brown and tan stripes and horns. it’s standing in front of a dark forest wallpaper and next to a costume of max from where the wild things are.
December 25, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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i saw the where the wild things are art exhibit and the giant fursuit of the wild thing is gonna give me nightmares lol

#art #horror #wherethewildthingsare
side eyeing you from a dark and misty forest is one of the wild things from where the wild things are. it’s got brown and tan stripes, horns, and lion tail kinda thing, and a bright orange eye
December 25, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Little Dreamer - 8” - finished for now

my first embroidery project :) i think it turned out ok.. some parts are kind wonky tho

#art #sciart #embroidery #anatomy #brain #purple #beaded
a purple rat brain slice embroidered on an 8” hoop. the hippocampus is shown and parts of the brain are beaded. under the embroidery, but still in the hoop, are two slides with rat brain sections with cresyl violet staining, they are much smaller than the embroidery. also bluer.
December 10, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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orange head cockroach dissection depiction :)

#art #sciart #illustration #cockroach #dissection
three black line art drawings of orange head cockroaches. the first is a top view of an intact cockroach. the second has had it’s antenna, wings, and legs removed. the third has had its back and innards removed, exposing the ventral nerve cord.
December 3, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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some quick animal sketches :)

#art #pen #sketch
a pen doodle of a rat. he has never done anything bad and never will. panda. he’s vibing and eating some plant thingy. a soggy cheetah sticking his tongue out. he’s so tired. a dog thing and an alpaca. they’re scheming but also fluffy little guys.
November 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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wip embroidery piece of rat brain slice with cresyl violet staining 💜

i’m pretty sure the hoop is 10 inches but idk.. im also going to try adding beads later on for ~texture~

#art #sciart #embroidery #purple
a purple rat brain slice is partly embroidered onto white fabric (it’s still a wip, only about half the brain slice is done). the brain slice includes the hippocampus and also it looks cool. the embroidery hoop is leaning on a white wall and sitting on a white pedestal that’s kinda dirty but oh well.
November 21, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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secret moon!

#art #blue #moon #forest
a digital drawing of a blue moon floating in a green forest, casting light on the trees around it.
November 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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if you see this, post something pink!

an older piece, but i love the composition🩷

#art #pink
figure with black hair and exposed ribcage floating in front of a sunset. the figure is holding an eye in front of the sun.
November 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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i made bird skull painting!

#art #painting #sciart #skull #bird
a small bird skull that i made up the anatomy for, painted with a lot of colors. the main color is yellow and then there’s red and green accents that also have some blue eventually. also the background’s black but it’s not a great picture, and the paint was shiny, so there’s a lot of white dots in the background; i like it though because it looks like stars.
November 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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reference pics. it was my first time plating brain slices, but it turned out ok.
four coronal brain slices from a mouse on a slide.
October 31, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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some caudal coronal mouse brain-slice sketches!

#art #sciart #brain #neuro #drawing
three caudal brain slices labeled 6-8 drawn in pen.
October 31, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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i’m still a student, but i recently drew some sketches from a sheep brain dissection and i think they came out kinda cool.
ventral view of sheep brain with meninges. dorsal and ventral views of a sheep’s brain. mid-sagittal view of a sheep’s brain. coronal slices of sheep’s brain.
October 30, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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sheep brain-section sketches!

#art #drawing #pen #sciart #sheep #brain #diagram
kinda-ventral view of a sheep brain with the meninges still on it. dorsal and ventral views of a sheep brain with structures labeled. mid-sagittal view of a sheep brain with brain structures labeled. four coronal slices of a sheep brain with structures labeled.
October 30, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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small sketch i did for a friends birthday :)

#art #drawing #alligator #raccoon #opossum
an alligator on the left and a opossum on the right walk towards a raccoon popping out of a birthday cake.
October 29, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Stardust, Graphite, 18x24

still wip but i love how it’s turning out!

#art #drawing #anatomy #graphite #stars
piece with seven figures centered around the left half of the paper, only the face and shoulders are visible for most of them. top most figure is cutout-esk and filled with a starry night sky. second figure is made of nerves and has floating eyes. third figure is a skeleton with their hand resting on the fifth figures arm. fourth figure is made of muscles and has their eye being pulled open by the fifth figure. fifth figure is an ambiguous unfinished figure of a “normal” person with the sixth figures hand covering their mouth. sixth figure is just kinda loose skin hanging down. seventh figure is empty paper with sketch lines forming their body, their boundary is made up by where the other figures are cut off.
October 29, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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garfield goose painting :)

#art #painting #goose
wonky painting of a goose in an admiral outfit and pink polkadot bow tie. he’s holding a ship in a bottle. the character is apparently from an old children’s tv show that first aired in the 50’s. this painting is a remake of a painting of the character from the family classics tv series that started airing in the 60’s.
October 29, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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some creepy art i made for a friend!

#art #drawing #creepy #procreate
character in black and white, looks calm and happy. Character looks distressed, plants are coming from behind them and are wrapping around their face. character is barely visible behind leaves, they look empty. leaves have pulled their skull open and the brain is viable.
October 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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wip but i love how the muscle person is turning out!

#art #drawing #wip
graphite drawing of muscle person (no skin), focused of the face
October 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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October 18, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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cool little unfolding diagram thing i made for an art class
October 18, 2024 at 3:46 AM
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graphite portrait from a few months ago :)
October 18, 2024 at 3:38 AM