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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Anyone have any fish field guide recs? Been having fun going through my trove of aquarium pics but would be nice to learn more about the fish. These are all pacific reef fish i think, mostly puffer/box fish family #art #sciart #sundayfishsketch

Coloured pencil sketches of pacific reef fish. Middle four are tetraodontiforms

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

More #riso test prints. Trying to print up all my central park pollinators. I didnt draw these specifically for riso printing so the cymk ish separations have been super fiddly. Using blue, yellow, fluorescent pink, and brown inks #sciart #printmaking #art

Test prints of butterflies on flowers, with different levels of coloured inks. Monarch and american painted lady

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Working on a new #riso print today. Hunter green ink turned out darker than expected so had to do some tweaks. First layer printed with yellow and raspberry #fish #SciArt #illustration

Print of a leucistic zebra shark surrounded by pacific coral reef fish. Three versions with different levels of green ink

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A Sagebrush Sheep Moth (Hemileuca hera) on Mount Kobau in the Okanagan. What a great place to be for bugs! #Lepidoptera #Moth #iNaturalist

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I've been working on a lot of apparel designs for my company (Planter App) these past couple of weeks! Here's a design I'm fairly fond of for obvious reasons 🪻🐛🌼🪲

And illustration highlighting native plants and pollinators that live in North America labeled "Proud Pollinator Protector"
Insect and plant ID's: 1 Metallic Green Sweat Bee | 2 Purple Prairie Clover | 3 Goldenrod Soldier Beetle | 4 Black Swallowtail Butterfly | 5 Purple Echinacea | 6 Spotted Pink Lady Beetle | 7 Potter Wasp | 8 Black Swallowtail Caterpillar | 9 Golden Alexander | 10 Leafcutter Bee | 11 Hummingbird Clearwing | 12 Monarch Butterfly | 13 American Bumblebee | 14 Milkweed | 15 Orchard Mason Bee | 16 Black-eyed Susan | 17 Long-horned Bee | 18 Monarch Caterpillar | 19 Convergent Lady Beetle | 20 Monarch Cocoon | 21 Hummingbird Clearwing Caterpillar

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jacob 🧍 @jajeumm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

another fish, sargassum frogfish done in gouache playing with a vibrant pink under painting #sciart #fish #sargassum

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Midden Digital painting

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm a freelance science and nature illustrator from New England. I love drawing native species I find on my walks, especially if they're weird and warty. Dream job would be to work on a non-fiction picture book

Extreme closeup of a Cladonia lichen, showing fungal fruiting bodies. Three colour riso print

Illustrated origami paper folded into life-sized frog species. Riso printed

Monarch butterfly on a salvia flower, with central park in the background

Caribbean fish from the New England Aquarium, with Thomas the moray eel in the center

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Had a great time sketching at the new york aquarium the other week. Could really only draw the sleepy ones while I was there so I maxed out my phone storage with reference pics and had fun with posca markers at home. #fish #sketch #sciart

Tropical fish sketches. Some type of puffer top, a parrot middle, no idea the bottom one

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Really enjoying the vibes here at #SciArt and glad things are taking off!

Close up of Cladonia squamosa lichen. Riso printed

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Another #pollinator closeup. This time a cabbage white butterfly. This might be my favourite flower in the series, and I had fun sneaking my friend and their dog in the background. #SciArt #art #bug #butterfly #InsectSky #botanical

Cabbage White (Pieris rapae) on a Verbena bonariensis flowers in central park

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Close up of an American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) in central park. #SciArt #pollinators #art #invert #bug

American lady (Vanessa virginiensis) butterfly perched on a flower

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy #Pride 🌈 Vector illustration pack of native plants and animals in every colour of the rainbow. Made it a few years back, and if you're in Maine might see it again this year 👀 #pridemonth #sciart #vector #art #illustrator

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

この日々が打算でもいいあなたのそばで息をしている

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Vojta Hybl @vojtahybl.com · 20/04/2025

Really big lichens or a really small hiker? I’ll let you decide #illustration

A gouache illustration of boulder covered in bright green, white and mint green lichens. A tiny person with a backpack is walking on the boulder as if it was a hill.

#sciart #gouache

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Be working on this one for far too long but I present to you "Central Park #Pollinators," based on bugs I saw in the park last summer. The plan is to print it as an accordion book but it also works as a big ol sign #sciart #bugs #invert #art #centralpark #botanical #procreate

Spicebush swallowtail, common bumble bee, cabbage white, and European paper wasp, with scenes from central park in the background

Euro paper wasp, hover fly, and monarch, with bethesda fountain in the background

Monarch, american lady, two-spotted scoliid, and green sweat bee, with bow bridge in the background

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Some common eastern bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) to celebrate #WorldBeeDay! Will share the full images of the whole project soon #bee #bumblebee #pollinators #art #illustrator

two bumblebees pollinating an inflorescence of pink flowers

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

User Zachary Berger recommends the following script: "I'm a constituent in the congressperson's district.
Al regulation is life or death for a lot of the Congressperson's constituents in creative industries, please make sure the section in the budget reconciliation bill banning Al regulation doesn't pass."

User Karla Ortiz gives information on the bill so you can point your senators where to look:

Call your representatives! Tell them just yesterday (R) Congressman Guthrie added a new text to the Budget Reconciliation bill to BAN GenAi regulation in the states for 10 years!
Hell, point
them to the specific section:
TITLE IV-ENERGY AND
COMMERCE (Part II: Al section, (c) moratorium)

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

So excited it's vernal pool season again. Eastern red #newt and some of my favourite moss and lichen (Peltigera) I've seen in Vermont. Original digital illo and #riso print, using my own funky spot colour separation. #sciart #lichen #illustration #art #nature #procreate

Original digital illustration. The lichen is definitely a Peltigera, inclined to neopolydactyla cause it has some pretty long rhizines vs polydactylon, can post ref pics if anyone wants to help id

Riso print, using blue, orange, and yellow. Orange drum was a lil broken so got kinda stronger than expected but I kinda like the warm vibe.

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

More #riso prints from my #lichen close ups series. Both from the genus Cladonia, the one that looks more fingery in the sub group Cladina. Fun fact the tips are dark with the same melanin pigment we have as sun protection for new growth #botany #art #sciart #printmaking #illustration

Close up of lichen with antler like structures, sometimes called reindeer moss.

Lichen close up, showing corn flake like squamules with snail slime

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If anyones in new york, my frogs will be on display at the society of illustrators @soi128.bsky.social now until April 12! Really proud these origami frogs I designed and illustrated got included. All #riso printed by me too! #art #origami #frog #illustration #papertoy

9 origami frogs folded from illustrated paper, each a species native to northeastern america

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One of my favourite illustrations from last year, showing fish I saw on a trip to the new england aquarium. Originally made it for a two colour riso print but have had fun rearranging bits for some mock editorial layouts. Need to draw more fish #art #illustration #fish #aquarium #editorial

Original digital illustration of moray eel and reef fish

mock editorial layout of fish infographic

two colour riso print of moray eel and reef fish

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Working on a piece about native pollinators in central park. So many statues and weird angles gonna be a relief to get back to the #bugs #sketch #illustrator #pollinator

Work in progress sketch of a fountain surrounded by bugs pollinating flowers

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Vojta Hybl @vojtahybl.com · 24/01/2025

Okay, how do you make friends here? Illustrators, scientists, nature-obsessed folk – come connect! I create art inspired by the Earth and my favourites are rocks! Here’s a selection of some projects from the past year 🪨

A hand holding a sketchbook with a green, grey and blue illustration of a rocky shoreline

An illustration of a cross-section of Schiehallion showing the folded metamorphic rocks, resting on vintage maps

A hand holding a sketchbook with a pencil sketch of a mountainous landscape

A gouache illustration of a black and white rock

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Ethan Roos @ethanroos.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Slowly migrating over. Stupid obsessed with #lichens so starting with a #riso print from a poster series I did last year of lichen close ups. This ones the tip of a Cladonia squamosa branch. In theory they look like dragons? #illustration #scienceillustration #botany #art #procreate

Illustration of a lichen, risograph printed in bold colours

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