[kai•rop•ter•ay] Heya! I'm Emily, an artist, novice chiropterologist (bat scientist!), Gravity Falls fanatic, polite Canadian and snake mom. Check my pinned post to read more about me and this blog! Have an awesome day. :D
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More Bill and YV PLEASE I'm obsessed
Always happy to provide, anon! Here are some unseen sketches from The Archives™
Quick n’ messy shading experiment with Buddy who was designed by my pal @kaleidoprismatic ! ^^
Man this file is just named “aeaeaeaeaeaeaeae” I’ve truly given up in the names department
Not much to say about this piece, just something experimental with my character Zelda. She was a birthday present from a dear friend of mine and I wanted to draw her! I’ve got mixed feelings about this piece but hopefully it’s at least interesting to look at!
How did you do the background for 'The Mabel Treatment'? I love it and I wanna know how you did it!
Heya, anon, sorry for the late reply! Thank you for the ask!
I wish I could tell you that it was some sort of laborious act of love for my craft but it's actually just a built-in filter in Photoshop called "Crystallize"! There was a period of time where I was trying to use filters as quick-fix backgrounds and crystallize was one of my favorites. Plop down a gradient, stick the filter on and bam, cool and artsy!
If you're looking to crystallize something of your own but you don't wanna sacrifice a goat to the Adobe tyrants check out Photopea, its got all of Photoshop's features right in your web browser. Directory is "Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize..."
Hope you had an awesome Halloween! /|\^. .^/|\
“The Mabel Treatment”, 2020
Was looking through my DeviantArt and people seemed to really like this one (I am people also), so here’s a reupload on a website that isn’t totally dead! Original description under the cut :)
“It's ya girl back with another limited palette piece cause it's been a while since I tried one and my inspiration doc is getting real gummed-up
Based off a sketch a did a while ago, I love these two. This old nerd could really use some Mabel pampering to help along with the healing process.
Original sketch involved her having painted his nails as well but it didn't look right in the limited palette, maybe next time </3
Oh, and speaking of which, I love this palette! I wasn't sure how it'd go at first but it's really nice and cozy, perfect for this scene.
Randomized prompt:
Character(s): Ford, Mabel (added Waddles too just cause) Keyword: brush Tone: sweet Palette: sheet 3, 78 / F60″
“I can’t swim.”
Thing I’ve been working on here and there since abouuut August? I did a lot of river swimming this summer and wanted to illustrate that beautiful emerald water <3
And then blorbo brainrot set in. sowwy teehee
Bonus:
Fantober day 3: Hugs!
Two huggable critters combine their powers
Late again lol, I've got no excuse this time but I'm choosing to blame Pim's weird head being hard to draw
Fantober day 2: vampire
Just a tiny crobat for today! Shout out to my shiny crobat, Mr. Crocker, who is named such because he loves to murder fairies
Reuploading trying to beat Tumblr’s awful horrible tagging system but I guess this little dude is just doomed to never appear in the tags. I am fighting a losing battle
Fantober day 1: Holding hands
Doing @demico-art‘s Fantober prompt list this year! I really love this list and I feel like having all the pieces blorbo-focused will help kick-start my motivation.
Today’s been wild! My snake’s tank broke and I’m home alone all week so that was a whole process lol. She’s got a swanky new one though and I think she’ll like this one more than the old one! Grateful I was able to get this done in time.
This piece is based off a cute sketch I made on my phone while on a hike lol. Let him feel tall
So I have just discovered the absolutely incredible digital library of skull scans. These scans include not only images of bones (mainly skulls) but 3D MODELS THAT YOU CAN VIEW IN-BROWSER!
For example, come rotate my cranium here!
Keep in mind that you need to have the scientific name of the species you’re looking for in order to search for it, but that information’s only a Wikipedia page away.
Definitely gonna be doing some studies with this baby!
Almost forgot to upload this! Trade with Devilbinx of her character Jitter :D I saw chiropteran wings and went ooga booga
Phew I’m a little rusty, I should really do some studies. Oh well, I think the colors are really fun!
Math class doodle to retain my sanity. I got this awesome bootleg Smiling Friends shoulderless sweater and I feel adorable in it 🥺 💕
Phew, Tumblr’s finally given me my account back! Hello again everyone, missed you. :D
I’ve been mainly working on my tboi portraits mod lately, here's a sneak peak! So far I’ve been calling it the “hyper-detailed stylistically-inconsistent portraits mod” but that’s subject to change. Catchy name though, ain’t it?
Your art is so wholesome! 💕
D'aww, thank you, anon! That's very kind of you to say, I appreciate it! Have some teeny tiny twinsies for your trouble <3
Wow, haven’t drawn one of my own fellows in a while! Too many varying forms of brain rot. This is Skylark and I lobe him and my bat buddy plumbeach made him and I hope you like him too 🥺
I was looking through my files and realized I had way more Kaput and Zösky stuff I never posted. Images are captioned with extra info about the individual pieces if that’s what you’re into!
Show’s 20 year anniversary is coming up very soon! Gosh and this year was my 20th, too. Birthed in 2002, we both were. Clearly it was destiny.
I knew I drew them a lot but damn this is like, a lot a lot. Oh well, I just do what the little aspergers demon in my brain tells me to. :P Hope you enjoy!
Zösky thinks he’s hot shit but he’s really only the latter. Meanwhile, Kaput mange du pain. And only du pain. There is nothing in that sandwich
A very quick and very messy experiment with a neat line art trick my swag as freak pegasister @ieatchromebooks started experimenting with. You will go follow her...NOW! Her stuff looks way better than this does that’s for sure
I promise I’ll post about something that more than like four people care about in due time, been in a killer art block lately and these two are fun to draw ❤️💛 (Also I am once again indecisive about how to draw their outfits so that’s another excuse of mine. Here I gave them one-piece bodysuits more similar to how @eievuiisms draws ‘em, which makes more sense frankly but until I saw them pull it off so well I wasn’t sure it’d work so I never tried (hello btw hope you’re doing well!!). I find it super interesting how being in such a small fandom has made me intentionally or not take little things from everybody else’s art styles bahaha I kinda love it!)
Trying to fight art block @_@
There’s no way these two can afford phones
Anthro Generator
Animal Generator
Insect Generator
It’s recommended that you read more about it here https://www.deviantart.com/canischiroptera/journal/F2U-Complex-Animal-Anthro-Generators-824271401 ! Lots of explanations, tips and tricks!
Heya, guys! So, I’m a picky nerd who loves me a good generator. I wasn’t satisfied with existing animal generators, most of them being very non-specific (i.e., “parrot”, “bat”, “mouse”…boring!), and so I figured I’d create my own! After garnering an initial list of animals, I decided to take it a step further – let’s add occupations, personality traits, nationalities, and a bunch more to make a more extensive generator for creating a basis for interesting characters! I’ve compiled what I believe to be the most extensive anthro/animal generators on the internet. We’re talking every mammal, bird, fish, reptile, and amphibian on Earth, 5MB of text, takes like a full minute to scroll through the source code at top speed! Countless personality traits, original attributes, body types, and so, so much more await in this puppy.
Feel free to use however you want. Mix and match aspects, ignore parts, add parts, whatever. Please, enjoy! I hope you find this as inspiring and helpful as I have in such a short time. If you have any questions or suggestions, lemme know! Thinking of maybe adding color palettes in the future, though frankly it’s real hard to edit this thing, lol This wouldn’t have been possible without thewebsiteofeverything.com/ , Wikipedia, and countless other sources that I ruefully didn’t record. All credit goes to them, I simply compiled everything together to inspire myself and fellow artists. <3
Hi there! A couple years back I compiled a massive folder of all the bat species in the world* in photographs for quick visual reference. I feel I should share it in hopes that it can help someone like it has me and save them a lot of time looking up ambiguous search terms such as "bat species" or trying to find photographs of obscure ones.
This database contains:
Sub-folders labelled after families (vesper bats, megabats, etc.) for easier sorting
A-Z sorted photographs of all the documented species in the world*
A little text document telling of the best places to find more photographs and/or info about the species
Photographs include professional-grade shots, scientific illustrations, fieldwork photographs, headshots, wingspans, skeletons, skulls, foot details, and comparison shots between species
All files are downloadable, including the folder itself which you can get as a .zip
Some of these photographs are very obscure and needed to be dug out of the farthest corners of the ‘net. This was a passion project of mine in order to give myself an easy-to-access art resource to better understand these animals and their incredible diversity. I hope you can find some use of this, as well!
Enjoy, bat nerds! If there's anything wrong, please don't hesitate to contact me. I've worked like crazy to put this together and I want only the best for it!
Quick disclaimer:
Nothing here belongs to me, all of these images were found using Google Images and this is meant to be nothing more than a database/directory for anatomical reference. If you plan on reusing them, please reverse image search the original image and ask for permission from the rightful owner(s) as necessary. Photography is an art just like anything else, and it ain't cool to steal! Thank you. <3
*Some species have only been documented in writing and therefore do not have readily-available photographs of them on the internet. This database was compiled by going through the list of documented species and finding photographs of them when I could; there are even more species than those listed in this folder!
I’m away from my tablet so I’m having to draw on my iPad and I DON’T LIKE IT >:(
On the bright side, putting Glep in funny cat photos is extremely funny
Untitled, Feb 24th
Quick rendering practice that will never be finished lol. Inspired by my lovely mutual @charseraph‘s absolutely wonderful triangles; hypnotizing you into following them rn and beholding their beautiful crowns wawawawawa
Originally his surface was supposed to be a lot smoother but I kinda dug the hammered gold look so I went with it! My friends say he looks like an Emoji Movie render. Good.
hi! to celebrate 1000 followers (‼️⁉️‼️⁉️‼️‼️😤🫢😜🥴😏😚🥰👀) anyone who interacts with this will get a personalized webweaving / moodboard of sorts <33 i dont have the energy to do anything more complex but i wanted to celebrate! might host a listening party soon as well <3 THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!
Hi I just uh figured out how tumblr asks work do you think grunkle stan and murdoc niccals should get married /j
I didn’t know who Murdoc was but I Googled him and of course he would, he’s RICH!
Sweet Soft Boys, Apr 24th 2021
Drew this when I was in the middle of a really bad depressive episode, so please excuse how overwhelmingly cartoonishly tooth-rottingly fluffy it is lol; cuddles are my go-to when I’m feeling especially low. I am cringe and I am free. I AM CRINGE AND I AM FREE. (And also not depressed anymore so that’s good!)
Fun fact: I actually remade the middle right one on my computer (this was via iPad which I don’t particularly like) over here!
Please do not tag as ship! My Stan snugs are entirely platonic :)
“Gay Geometry”, Nov 4th 2021 and Untitled, Oct 5th 2021
This shipping was supposed to be a joke. Emphasis on “supposed to be”
Decided I’m gonna start posting cringe to truly become free; prepare for uncomfortable amounts of physical affection
Keeping it going; today I’m the birthday bat!
Happy late birthday to @anomaly-beans as well, my fellow July-born bat-enjoyer /|\^. .^/|\
Parti Bat, Party Hat.
The scrunkly,,, prepped and ready to party (in 19 days), they are most certainly invited to any party ever
- Mod Cyrus