#Inktober Day 19: #Plump

Yuki is an icon, honestly. Round and full of love.

#Inktober2023 #RingedSeal #Seal #YukiChan #Yuki #Azarashi #KaiyukanAquarium #Pinniped #Sketch #ArtChallenge #Art #MastoArt

#Inktober Day 10: #Fortune 🦭 🔵

It may seem like a weird stretch for the given prompt but is part of a way larger passion project in the works.

#Inktober2023 #RingedSeal #Pinniped #Seal #NoboribetsuMarinePark #PinnipedTarot #ConceptArt #Sketch #ArtChallenge #Art #MastoArt

Sharing a fast exercise for refreshing skills course with

@ILLUSTRACIENCIA

As a subject, the Kangia ringed seal, a new type of seal just confirmed by science this month. Drawings based on the study paper, “An evolutionarily distinct ringed seal in the Ilulissat Icefjord” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17163.
Did I get it about right?
@Ari Löytynoja, @Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid , @mortenbock Tange Olsen ?

#kangia #IlulissatIcefjord #ringedseal #arctic
#scicom #science #illustration #infographic

#Fossil results indicate #PolarBears survived last #GlobalWarming deglaciation in Siberian and Canadian refugia https://phys.org/news/2023-09-fossil-results-polar-survived-global.html

#PolarBear's range dynamics and survival in the #Holocene https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379123003256

"polar bears found ways to survive at the seasonal limits of #SeaIce, seeking out seal breeding grounds to hunt their prey, evidenced by the preservation of #RingedSeal #fossils in association with polar bears on these #islands."