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Kate Pfeilschiefter

@dragonlady.bsky.social
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2D+3D Creature Artist in the PNW. 🚫NoAI Creature Artist at ArenaNet. Raving Cladist. Lover of mythology, biology, paleontology, wildlife, monsters, and dragons, especially dragons. Links & Contact Info: bio.site/pfeilschiefterart

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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13h
How can they report its domestic opening results when it hasn't even come to theaters yet? They're just basing this off of the number of pre-sold online tickets?
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鳥住ヨモ @birdmofu.bsky.social · 16h
比翼の鳥🪽
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Books! Books! Books!
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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Landscape study #infinitepainter
Landscape study
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeti are also a good barometer for determining how much research someone actually did. They're so often treated as just an alpine Sasquatch. But the local stories of them are very unique and sometimes bizarre.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'd be curious to see how deep vs surface-level they get into their folklore research on each creature. Dragons for example; if you had to lump them all together and pick the most common inspiration source, borrow most concretely from snakes more than anything else.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
must proceed quickly
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So much AI psychosis exhibited by the people interviewed in this. They’re all anthropomorphising the model and making incorrect assumptions based of doing so, that can’t be good for research.
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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 02/10/2026
You guys gotta check out what my buddy made. Without a doubt the best lifesize T. rex head sculpt that exists in the world.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A true auteur has graced us with this masterpiece
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, given the number of crossovers Sega has been doing lately maybe one day you can do both. Shadow can fit in RE no problem
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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's my birthday today!!! 🥳🙌 So what better day than to share more of these sleek dragons I have been doing for funsies. Here is one inspired by Elasmosaurids!
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A very cuddly bear, I love him
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mountain lions probably, they’re so versatile, have the largest continuous range of any cat species, the most names, and are so elusive that they manage to hold their own and survive in the most unlikely and highly urbanized areas.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If like me, you like wandering around on public lands, and want to tell the government to NOT do things we know leads to degraded habitat and extra wildfire, then consider leaving a comment opposed to the Rescinding of the Roadless Rule here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...
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It's Time to Save America's Most Important Land
YouTube video by Make Thing With Hand
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cool costume ref
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That makes some sense. But yeah, etymology -though a fun hole to fall down into- sometimes leads to dead-ends. (At least when restricted to modern enshittified web search engines)
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yeah I haven’t been immersed in it as much, that’s likely why it throws me off. I only occasionally hear it when people discuss proper hiking form, or correct form for some exercises.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Maybe, but then the calcaneus there is super round too. Didnt know that the analogous area on the hand is sometimes referred to in the same way, that’s interesting.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Perhaps it originated in a land of super high arches. For me, sure it looks a little more like a ball if I squint when I’m in the process of rising up off my foot, but still not nearly as much as the heel does.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can also never remember the correct answer to it because it seems so counterintuitive. I have to look it up every time someone says it to double-check. Which I assert makes it bad terminology. Or maybe I’m just weird and broken.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can never understand or remember the term “the ball of the foot”. Internet says it’s our metatarsal pad. But this looks absolutely nothing like a ball. My first assumption always been it’s the heel pad, the only part of the foot that’s actually spherical. Does this ever confuse anyone else?
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How dare they lower my bills, I demand to constantly bleed money to the inevitable singular-mega-corporation that’s gradually absorbing our democracy, thank you very much.
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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Homology
Digital drawing. A burst of hands/forelimbs of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates emerges from the fin of a mostly unseen fishapod in the bottom left corner. The forelimbs gradually point more towards the upper left corner as you move up through the bunch.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Same as it ever was. Hitler famously said he was inspired by how the U.S. treated native Americans when it came to his conquest and ethnic cleansing of neighboring nations.
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Logan Preshaw @wickedinsignia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Syd Mead did so much for modern hardsurface design it’s unreal. Still such cutting-edge and fundamentally appealing work that has yet to be totally absorbed into the entertainment art establishment.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I knew it, anatomy is emo
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I wonder if the trend of cartoons using eyelashes to designate the female character out of the bunch is somehow related to this. Did some people grow up watching cartoons and somehow walk away thinking that was biologically accurate?
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some critters and bear sign from a recent trip to Tahoma/Rainier. Cascades frogs and a pile of paedomorphic northwestern salamanders in an alpine pond. We think the salamanders were clustering up in search of water with higher oxygen levels.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I wonder how that’d play out in court though in a case where someone didn’t explicitly try and get a specific child’s/person’s face, and yet that’s what they ended up generating because their photos were in a dataset. Would the lack of intent matter to the law?
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seems like AI generated deep fakes would blur the line here. As AI does source images of real people including real children, that’s how the whole thing works. Much like how AI can replicate copyrighted film frames without much extra prodding, it can also spit out a real person’s face and body.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Mike Lee sucks ass. He’s also always trying to introduce something to screw with public land as well.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yep! We were trying out a modular approach for the regular Kryptis enemies, the skyscale was one of the first things made for that army and he was sculpted in sectioned off pieces for ease of reuse. Helped to make a cohesive aesthetic.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Cleaning up and organizing some work files.... don't think I ever shared these test renders of the Kryptis Skyscale from GW2 Secrets of the Obscure. Bits and pieces of him ended up getting reused throughout that expansion like demon lego bricks. He kinda makes me think of raw chicken. #art #gw2
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Aww shucks, thanks!
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Man… I’m incredibly powerful, dangerous even, watch out yall
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
More pony more better
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Excited Deku with All Might Toy in My Hero Academia
ALT: Excited Deku with All Might Toy in My Hero Academia
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What’s the show?
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Yitanran @yitanran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I just realized the previous version had some pretty serious color and image quality issues, so I'm reposting it. This piece features my parrot and my dragon OC.
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I do kinda wish it’d remember the time&date though
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
That buff quail man..... he enchants me
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Auk @aukkenopsia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Beeples (playing around with shapes)
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hmm you’re right, I should do her too
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More spikey more better <3
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My gosh, is blue sky’s image compression a load of doggy-doo. I’m surprised by it every time
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Kate Pfeilschiefter @dragonlady.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I was compelled #art #spyro
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❄️Magic Crafters HQ❄️ @magiccraftershq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@tfbgames.bsky.social released early exploration art on #SpyroTheDragon for #Spyro: #ARealmBeyond. Source: www.facebook.com/share/p/14gZ...
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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
woke up in a sweat and had to scribble this before i forgot #witchhatatelier
shit doodle of qifrey making a cool S
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
See ya
Two panel comic. Panel 1: two Tiktaaliks (an extinct, 375-million-year-old fish that was the evolutionary link between fish and the first four-legged land animals) sit at the floor of a shallow sea bed. One of them angrily says to the other, “hey! You still owe me 20 bucks!” Panel 2: the other Tiktaalik, to avoid paying $20, emerges from the water and steps onto land for the first time in history. The first tiktaalik is absolutely stupefied.
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