I’ve Been In A Bit Of A Slump For A Bit, And Although I’ve Been Drawing And Painting Still, I Haven’t

A little colored pencil doodle cause I was hungry.

A drawing and some music I made a while ago.

This was sort of what got me practicing drawing, since it was one of the first pieces I was proud of, but I couldn’t (and still can’t) consistently make things I was proud of or that looked like what I’d imagined in my head.

Study from reference on Pinterest

Altogether, I’m fairly happy with it, but it does look a bit “off” in some ways.

One Mountain, Two Tigers: A New Species of Gloydius (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Upper Lancang Valley in Xizang, China, with Comments on the Diagnostic Characters and Evolution of the G. strauchi (Bedriaga, 1912) Species Complex

Jinlong REN, Junjie HUANG, Wei WU, Ke JIANG, Jiatang LI

Abstract

The Hengduan Mountains Region (HMR) in China, a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, has garnered attention for its potential to harbor cryptic species within the Asian pit viper genus Gloydius Hoge & Romano-Hoge, 1981. Based on comprehensive morphological comparisons and molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Gloydius strauchi complex, this study identified a previously unrecognized species of Asian pit viper. Discovered in the upper Lancang (Mekong) hot dry valley of Xizang, China, this species is geographically proximate to G. huangi but exhibits clear morphological distinctions from other members of the genus, representing the second Gloydius species identified along the upper Lancang River. We describe here this new species and highlight the significance of skull and hemipenis morphology, which were instrumental in its diagnosis and in resolving taxonomic boundaries and ambiguities within the G. strauchi complex. This study provides insights into the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of this newly described species, enhancing our understanding of diversification patterns in this genus.

Read the paper here:

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Little potion two frame gif for my neocities website(no link since it’s still under construction). Looks much better with transparency, but I couldn’t get it to export that way.

I was thinking about birds earlier today(many such cases), when my thoughts wandered a bit too far and the phrase “ratite-oulli” popped into my head. I knew I had to draw it, so here’s a quick 10 minute sketch. Nothing is to scale at all, and the cassowary is sorta terrible, but this is a shitpost anyways, so…

An apple I did in my notes app. I guess this counts as my first piece of digital art.

I have one last apple thing I’m working on, but then I’ll probably stop doing so many apples.

I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s something I tried to draw while out on a hike. The perspective on the bench is definitely wonky, and on the whole, this doesn’t look nearly as good as I was hoping. Any advice on doing backgrounds?

Playing around with Procreate. Here’s some fungi.

Still can’t do faces that well, unfortunately. anyways, here’s an attempt at the bug man. Literally did not even include his most iconic feature. I’m so busy rn, and there were definitely better ways I could have spent my time, but I can’t say I regret wasting it on this. As the saying goes, “it’s just so much fun, too much fun, oh come on”