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Wryaves
@wryaves.bsky.social
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Some birds from earlier this year! Done with alcohol markers
#traditionalart #birdart
A small bright red bird with a white face and black beak Done 23 Feb 2025 - Wryaves art, marker art A black bird, likely a corvid, done as a warm-up piece (6 min) on 24 Feb 2025 - Wryaves art, marker art A larger grey bird with a red streak on its cheek, blue crest and tail feathers, iridescent wings, and white speckling. Done as a timed practice piece (25 min) on 24 Feb 2025 I wish I wrote down the species because now I can't remember or find it - Wryaves art, marker art
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Here, have some skull sketches I never posted and pretend I didn't disappear off the face of the planet since Sept 4th 😶
#skulls #traditionalart
Crocodile skull sketch using brush pen and micron pens. The shading is done with stippling and hatching - Wryaves art Two skull sketches done with brush pen and micron pen. One is a bighorn sheep skull, and I sincerely can't remember what the other is. Maybe racoon? - Wryaves art Stylized sketch of a human skull done with brush pen - Wryaves art Sketch of a human skull biting a beetle and some flowers. This was done during a still-life art session - Wryaves sketches
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Well, I can officially vouch for the durability of my stickers! This one has lasted 3 full con days + being stuck to 3 different shirts ✨
(4 more days!!!! #silksong)
Cropped picture of me focused on the large sticker on my shirt. The sticker is of a white sign and Hornet wall-clinging to the side of the sign. Written on the sign is "4 days!!! September 4th!" This is the 3rd shirt and 3rd day I've worn this exact sticker (Matsuricon) - Wryaves stickers
August 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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--So I decided to make stickers to bring to Matsuricon 👀✨

I may have made too many 😶
#silksong #matsuricon
Multiple stacks of stickers. One is of Hornet clinging to the side of a blank sign, the other is of a Moss Creep with a little heart - Wryaves art, stickers
August 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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And last two art fight pieces for this year~

Aurelian for Qsaike and Neomi for Nocturen!
#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils #digitalart
Qsaike's character, Aurelian. Aurelian is wearing a red shark hoodie with teeth around the hood and doing a 'rawr' pose. There's a polaroid frame around the image, with "Summer 2025" written beneath the picture. In the corners, there's a little red fish, a dark blue fish, and a purple octopus. These three repeat as a pattern in the background as well. Aurelian's little brother, Jingyu took the picture. - Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, digital art Nocturen's character, Neómi BonLínae Neómi is a pink tiefling with gold-yellow horns and eyes. She's holding a long silver bow and reaching behind her for an arrow. The background is solid light purple and has 3 dark blue arrows. - Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, digital art
August 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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More art fight!

Tinbles as a revenge for @forestsandtea-art.bsky.social, Canary as an attack/revenge for @kyroki.bsky.social (I was so close to finishing mine first!!), and lil coin dragon as an attack for @spellcaster1298 / wolfy1298~

#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils #traditionalart
Forestsandtea's character, Tinbles Tinbles are little creatures with dark brown fur and rabbit-like ears. They live in forests and are 3-5" tall. This one has a tan dress and pink-purple hooded cloak, and is sitting on a rock under a leaf. The leaf is acting as an umbrella and has a water droplet about to fall from it. - Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils, marker art Kyroki's witchsona, Canary Canary is a forest witch who has a wooden puppet body and a golden bird cage torso. An actual canary lives in the cage. Canary (witchsona) is reaching out to a bluebird who's come to say hi. - Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils, marker art Spellcaster1298's character, A Little Guy (coin dragon) Little guy is a small pink-purple dragon with a long body, multiple sets of wings, and a feathery tail. His wings and tail turn orange-gold at the tips, and he has some orange-gold scales on his back. He also has little golden horns, and really likes coins. He's wrapped around a pile of gold coins with little hearts and sparkles around his head, and someone in the distance is shouting "HEY! How'd you get in here?!", suggesting he isn't supposed to be there. (Too late, those are his coins now<3) - Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils, marker art
August 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Belatedly sharing my attacks from Art Fight this year!
Here's Nika the Chomper for @slavade.bsky.social and Nyktos for @nuktia.bsky.social

#artfight2025 #artfight #TeamFossils
ColorlessOcean's character, Nika the Chomper Nika is an African pygmy hedgehog. He's next to a small watermelon, eating a watermelon slice. - Wryaves art, art fight revenge, Team Fossils Nuktia's character, Nyktos Nyktos is a pale blue owl with 6 eyes and a crescent moon halo. There are eye-like patterns on the tips of her feathers. There is a dark blue night sky splash behind her. - Wryaves art, art fight attack, Team Fossils
August 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Here have some warm up fish sketches
#fish #sketches
A bunch of simple fish sketches done with pen. There's a lot of different species, mostly freshwater. - Wryaves art, sketches, warm-ups
June 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Some more plants + me trying to figure out rocks lol
#art #artstudies
Two trees done in alcohol markers. One is more yellow and warm green, and the other is bush-like and a cooler green. There are marker swatches next to both - Wryaves art, marker art, tree studies, plant studies A sketch page filled with rocks of different shapes and sizes. All are done in alcohol markers. - Wryaves art, marker art, studies Two plants in rectangular planters. One is pale blue-green and in a pink planter, the other is a slightly warmer brighter green and in a wall-mounted planter. Both done in alcohol markers - Wryaves art, marker art, plant studies
May 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This one never got its own post either, so fixing that!
I combined prompts "Celestial", "Mycena Subcyanocephala", and "Shark" from last year's Funguary and Fishuary. Enjoy my 'biblically accurate' blacktip reef shark~
#art #sharks #original
Top view of a blacktip reef shark with 10 tails fanned around it. It's covered in golden eyes, and has 3 golden intertwined halos in front of it. There's a white border, and a washed out blue-grey background with glowing specks and a whirl texture applied to it. #digitalart - Wryaves art, finished piece
May 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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More fish sketches I can't find to get better pictures of 😔
I like these ones a lot though, arowana are super cool, I love bony fish
#art #fishart #arowana
A sketch of two arowana curved towards each other. Done with brush pens in 2024 - Wryaves art A sketch of an arowana facing to the right. The shading is done with hatching. Done with brush pens in 2024. - Wryaves art A sketch of an arowana facing left. It looks like its judging the viewer. The shading is done with hatching. Done with brush pens in 2024. - Wryaves art
May 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Some colored fish ✨ A balloon molly and an alligator gar!
...I really did not think through the dimensions of an alligator gar and how the thumbnail would be cropped 😭

#fishart #traditionalart #freshwaterfish
A drawing of a yellow-orange balloon molly done with alcohol markers and brush pen #markerart - Wryaves art A drawing of an alligator gar done with alcohol markers and brush pen. The fish is unfortunately long and not very tall, so the thumbnail shows an awkward midsection of the fish... #markerart - Wryaves art
May 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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This was my piece for the 10th edition of the Swim On charity zine last year, featuring white spotted bamboo sharks 🦈

You can find the full zine over at topazcomics.com/swimon/, shout out to @jpawlik.com for a decade of really cool shark zines & donations to finfree.org
#art #sharks #swimonzine
Digital art piece featuring two white spotted bamboo sharks, a species of reef-dwelling carpet shark. The background has stylized water, along with some seaweed and corals that can be found in their habitat in the Indo-west Pacific. #fishart - Wryaves art, finished piece
May 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Realized I never gave this its own post, so -- tada!
This was an art fight attack last year on @zrllosyn.bsky.social's oc, Haru!
I had a lot of fun with the skull and glow effect~
#art #digitalart #artfight
Digital art piece. Has a reptilian kaiju skull with sharp teeth and 5 eye sockets. The skull's mouth is open, and Enn's OC, Haru, is standing inside its jaws. The upper half of Haru's body is visible, with his back facing the viewer. He's glancing over his shoulder. He's wearing the JAKDF uniform (Kaiju No8), and one of his arms is skeletal, sounded in a bubbling red aura. The kaiju the skull belongs to bit off this arm. - Wryaves art, finished piece
May 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Eroded whale sketch!
Inspired by #Dredge, which is a great game with very good fish, you should definitely go play it 🎣
Drawing of a whale that has 5 eyes and is covered in cracks and crevices, suggesting its body is something hard like rock. Done in brush pen #fanart #fishart - Wryaves art
May 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I made this one for my friend Bee's birthday back in 2023.
I'm really proud of how the bees and honeycomb came out~
#digitalart #art
A tarot-inspired artwork. There's a large bee in the center with stars beneath it, an hourglass in the top left with bones, wings, and a flower petal on it, and honeycombs with two bees in the top right. In the bottom left there's a sunflower with a small bee on it, and in the right, there's a skull with honey and a bee on top of it, an honey dripping from one of the eyes. There are stars in the corners of the card, and starburst lines going out from each corner towards the center bee. The stars, lnes, and center bee are symmetrical. - Wryaves art, finished piece
May 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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More sketches, this time ink fish and tree eels (treels)

#art #fishart
A sketch done in pen of a tipped over bottle of ink with ink spilling out, and fish swimming away from the bottle. Ink fish Done with a brush pen in 2024 - Wryaves art A sketch of a tree with two holes. The bigger hole has a moray eel poking out, and the smaller has a freshwater eel coming out of it Done in brush pen in 2024 - Wryaves art
May 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Mixing it up with some digital art this time.
These are a little old, I haven't been doing much digital art lately... still tempted to make an entire set inspired by 'birdwatching goes both ways' tho 📷🐦
#art #digitalart #birdart
Two digital sketches of a bird with a camera. The bird is a tufted titmouse. A screenshot of a post by @less_soft_bird is on the right that says "remember: birdwatching goes both ways" and has pictures of a bird perched on a camera lens. This was the inspiration for the doodles. - Wryaves art Three digital bird sketches (robins). Two have color, the last is lines only. - Wryaves art
May 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Figured I should start sharing some stuff with color, so have some tree studies! 🌳
#art #alcoholmarkers #artstudies
Drawings of three trees. The leftmost is warm green with yellow highlights, the center is blue-green, and the rightmost is pink Done with Ohuhu alcohol markers in Sept 2024 #markerart - Wryaves art Two orange trees done with Ohuhu alcohol markers in Sept 2024 These were my first trees! #markerart - Wryaves art
May 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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More fish, this time in pen! I love pygmy corys <3
Still can't find the sketchbook they're in for better pictures :(

(I worked really hard on the squid and nautilus so I'm sharing that page still, but... just ignore the poor lumpfish, ok? 😂)
#fishart #seacreatures #art
A page with 3 fish sketches: a pygmy corydora, a salt and pepper pygmy corydora, and a tail spot corydora Done in 2024 with micron pens for 'fishuary' - Wryaves art A page with three fish sketches (or more accurately, sea creatures): a lumpfish with "(...shhh ignore me...)" written next to it, a reef squid, and a nautilus Done in 2024 with brush pens for 'fishuary' - Wryaves art A page with two ray sketches, a blue spotted ray and a manta ray Done in 2024 with pen for 'fishuary' - Wryaves art
May 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Next up -- have some old fish sketches!
I couldn't find the sketch book these are in, so I couldn't get nicer pictures of them 😔
#fishart #art #sketches
Four fish sketches done in pencil, with some small details added using red and blue pens. Arowana, arapaima, neon tetra, and goldfish Done in October 2023 - Wryaves art Five fish sketches done in pencil (except they aren't all fish) Medaka, cherry shrimp, axolotl, whiptail catfish, and sturgeon Done in October 2023 - Wryaves art A fish sketch done in pencil of three minnows Done in October 2023 - Wryaves art A fish sketch of a shoal of chili rasbora and some plants Done in October 2023 in pencil - Wryaves art
May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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One more post for tonight -- have some bird skulls this time.
Some corvids, a vulture, and an auk skull

...I promise I'll share non-bird stuff tomorrow 😶
#skulls #traditionalart #art
Three ink sketches of bird skulls - Wryaves art Two ink sketches of bird skulls. There's red colored pencil beneath the ink for the initial sketch. Vulture skull - Wryaves art A bird skull sketched in ink. The shading is done with hatching. Auk skull - Wryaves art
May 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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annddd this time some pen bird sketches! 🐦
These were done with a combo of micron pens and brush pens. The 3rd was a shape exercise, it was fun
#birds #birdart #sketch #traditionalart
Two sketches of nightjars (the bird) done in 2024 Pen sketches - Wryaves Art A page of bird sketches done in ink in 2024. All are small birds - Wryaves Art A page of geometric bird sketches done in ink in 2024. This was a shape exercise. - Wryaves Art Four bird sketches done in ink in 2025. - Wryaves Art
May 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Here, have some bird sketches 🐦✏️
I know I have a bunch more in pencil, but these were the only ones I could find right now??
#birds #birdart #traditionalart
A page of long tailed tit (the bird) sketches, Pencil sketches done in 2021 - Wryaves art A page of bird sketches, including a heron, crow, kingfisher Pencil sketch done in 2024 - Wryaves art Two pencil sketches of birds done in 2024 - Wryaves art A page of bird pencil sketches done in 2025. All are small birds - Wryaves art
April 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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andd the others from Art Fight 2024!
Details for each in alt text. (2/2)
Art Fight 2024 Attack Character: Strange Seraph Owner: zinthings A biblically accurate lamp. Traditional art, done with a black brush pen. The lamp has 8 wings, two halos, and eyes all over it. - Wryaves art Art Fight 2024 Attack Character: fishstick Owner: avyary / avyaryofficial A fish with a bright blue body, orange head / tail / fins, and stick legs. Fishstick is shown doing various things, like getting scared by a pillbug, doing a little dance, and rollerskating. Traditional art done with black brush pen and alcohol markers. - Wryaves art
January 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM