Sam B.

@somebeees.bsky.social

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🌈 She/They 🎨 Artist and illustrator of nature and more 📷 Native plant and bird photographer 🃏Graphic Designer for Board Games 🪡 Garment/Semi historical sewist 🙈 Human with too many hobbies ☀️ Based in San Diego, CA

A red-throated loon on land from behind. It's looking side-eye at the camera. A little ladybird crawls on it's back.
An illustration of a group of stellar’s jays in various poses. From top left clockwise: back to audience, wings folded smirking; eating a peanut; wings extended grumpy; wings extended back to audience excited; beak turned up knowing they are pretty; flying and confused; snoozy fluffy bird; and crest down crying tears bird. Around them are doodles of california poppies, acorns, and oak leaves.
A male brandt's cormorant mounts a female brandt's cormorant. Her bill is open and he is biting her neck.
A brandt's cormorant with bright blue eyes and a blue and pink throat looks off to the right. A feather rests on it's beak.
An osprey flies over a blue ocean carrying an orange garibaldi fish. In the background two stadium lights loom. An osprey perches on the left, and an osprey sits on the right one in a giant nest. Under the waves three orange garibaldi swim amongst the kelp.
A large brown bird with a long curved beak and a long tail perches on the branches of a bush
An illustration of a male and female pair of buffleheads flying. The female duck in the back has her wings down, and the male duck in the front has his wings outstretched. The background is cartoon fluffy clouds.
A small black duck with a bright yellow and orange bill swims in a green ocean on a cloudy day.
An illustration of a small grey bird with a yellow head hangs in a creosote bush. The bush has yellow flowers and white poofy seeds.
An illustration of three surf scoters. In the upper right one spreads his wings, while in the bottom left a female and male swim serenely by. In the water is text that says “surf scoter”
An illustration of three small colorful round birds face each other and yell. They are yellow with blue faces and there are yellow stripes on their heads that look like angry eyebrows. In between them the onomatopoeia for their call is written out. It says “bewahhbewbewbew”
An illustration of a purple blue pigeon who is standing on one leg and stretching out there wing. On their wing is a reflected rainbow of color.
An illustration of a fat woman resting gracefully in a pond. She has blue hair with willow leaves tangled in it. Her cheeks are flushed. Her hands rest on her chest. She is wearing a turquoise blue silk dress that transitions into the water of the pond itself. The pond is filled with lily pads in bloom and surrounded by rocks, reeds, and trees.
A lorquin's admiral rests with wings open on butterfly bush flowers.
Two yellow lesser goldfinches sit drinking at the side of a small pond. Another one flies in from the right.
A little humanoid lady bug is shown from the side, looking back over her shoulder. She has two sets of arms and is holding a big purple flower. She is holding the flower with both her arms. She is wearing a green calf length dress.
A white person with short curly hair stands with their hands behind their head. They are wearing a shirt with loose sleeves and an elastic waist with a high neckline and shorts with an elastic waistband and pockets. Both the shirt and shorts are made of the same purple and yellow plaid. They have green pom pom earrings that are textured like moss and a pendant with a green dice pendant.
A view of large pine trees where a huge flock of parrots sit, yell, and fly
One amazon parrot sits facing the camera while another parrot alights on the branch next to it.
A monarch butterfly hangs and drinks from a pink flower.
A great horned owl from below, foot lifted to scratch at face.
Gold colored crown daisies blur in front of some logs in a pile, bathed in golden afternoon light. Overhead, a crow soars in the blue sky.
A flat colored illustration of an american coot. Its wings are outstretched, it’s lobed feet facing forward. It is wearing a pointed wizard hat decorated with stars, and there are cartoon stars above it’s wings.
A common yellowthroat hangs on some grass in shallow water
A person in armor leads their black horse through a dim forest. In the background, a castle shimmers orange through a break in the trees. The trees are surrounded by ferns, lichen, moss, and fungi. The knight has silver armor, including a helm that covers their eyes, a chainmail cowl, a breastplate, and gauntlets. Their sword is drawn. Under their armor they are wearing a long skirt in green covered in gold roses. Their horses tack is covered in the same fabric.
A white person with hazel eyes and dark brown curly hair stands in their bathroom. On their head is a diy dinosaur flower crown. It’s covered with blue hydrangeas with small pink roses, and there are ferns dripping down the left side. On the right side are fluffy white flowers and in the middle is a blue triceratops with a gold crown.
A set of 4 illustrations of a california quail in a grid. All of them are in the same pose, doing a little strut walk to the left. The upper right quail is “chameleon” colors, a bright blue body with red and yellow accents and dark blue lines. The upper left quail is “pitted” , the colors are that of a pixie cup lichen, a mint blue body with dark red accents and white hi-lights. The background is green, and the quail is covered in pixie cup protrusions. Lower left is “atmospheric,”, green grays with orange yellow sunny highlights. Lower right is “analogous”, an orange body quail with yellow, red, and dark maroon accents.
A postcard drawn in posca markers. The background is yellow and the birds are drawn in blue. They sit in a toyon bush with dark blue leaves and mauve/pink berries. On the lower branch sits a yellow-rumped warbler. It is facing away from the audience. On the top branch sits a townsend’s warbler. Hand written on the card are the words “migration has no borders”
An american coot swims in a lake. It is pointed to the right of the frame, you can see it's legs sticking straight down in the water and it's bill is open to catch something.
Two clark’s grebes doing a courtship run across water. Their white breasts are up, their heads are snaked out forward and up, and there is a big splashy wake of water around them.
Illustration studies of bird heads. All are colored pencil on brown paper. The top head is a bald eagle facing to the right. Below is a dove facing left, with red around the eye and a yellow beak. Below that facing left is a cassowary with a large quest looking rather dinosaur like. The bottom bird heads is another bald eagle, facing more forward.
A red-tail hawk from behind, wings outstretched
A digital illustration, two blue gray unicorns that look very goatlike with lots of fur tuffs frolic in front of a stream. There are five small green butterflies flitting around the unicorns. The sun is streaming through the trees in the background, covering the unicorns and grass in dappled light. Small white daisies and purple lupin litter the grass. There are several rocks in the stream. In the foreground a curtain of vining plants frame the scene, with little star like blue flowers in the vines. It is all surrounded by a thin gold frame.
A tree swallow, white on the underside with a blue green back and head, flying with it's wings down toward the upper left of the photo frame.
Drawn on toothy water colorpaper with posca markers. Two pink shrimp face each other, with hearts above their heads. The message around the shrimp in light blue reads “you’re shrimply the best”.
an illustration that looks like a vintage style valentine. A big red heart with a white ruffle in the back reads “Valentine, I want to dive into your heart!” Pink hearts float around it. In the foreground two pied-billed grebes float in a pool of water. They both have pink bows around their necks. They are facing away from the viewer but toward each other. Two lily pads float between them.
A person taking a photo in a bedroom mirror, white skin with clear pink glasses. They are wearing a black beanie with mushrooms embroidered on it, an orange knit scarf, a grey blue shirt, green sweatpants, black boots and a tan overcoat
A digital painting with three northern potoo from three different angles, with a big full moon in the background
A digital painting of a rainbow lorikeet from the side, in flight it’s wings spread up.
An illustration of a male and female stonechat sitting on top of a purple thistle.
An illustration of two crimson topaz hummingbirds in flight. The male is red with a long tail and is drinking from a red tube like flower. The female is green and flitting below him.
Three black and white drawn kites swoop over a brown background. White line drawn clouds are behind them. Their tails are painted in with orange.
A painting of a female lazuli bunting facing left, perched on the branches of an oak tree.
A painting of a piping plover adult leading two small chicks behind it up the shoreline with waves in the background
A digital painting of a Lady Ross’s Turaco, a blue bird with a yellow bill and a red crown. It is standing on a branch with leaves in the background
A tricolored heron in flight
A tan wallet with a pink shape of a stylized cheetah drawn on it with black, yellow, blue and pink spots all around it.
A blue sky streaked with white clouds reflecting in the water below it.
A digital illustration bust of a woman, her hair braided up, wearing pearls. Next to her are flower, above a plain line, and below dots. The image is monotone, with a clay red for the art, a dark brick red for the background, and cream highlights.
A swallowtail caterpillar, green with black and orange spots, is climbing down a fennel stalk, front 3 pairs of legs in the air and an orange organ that looks like a snake tongue popping out of it's head, which it uses to ward off predators.
A red spaceship from the anime tv show Outlaw Star. It’s a sleek red rocketship, with robot arms sticking out holding a gun in the right and an axe in the left.
A picture frame with shelves displaying an assortment of vinyl toys hanging up on a wall.
A digital painting of a desert canyon at sunset. The cliffs in the foreground have the orange hues of a setting sun, and the mountains in the backgrounds are all blues. The sun is a burst of light just peeking over the horizon, causing a yellow color there. While the top of the sky is turning dark blue, with creamy dark clouds hovering in the sky.
A fluffy tortishell cat is flopped on her side, front paws tucked in, looking at the camera on a red patterned carpet.
A female hooded merganser with a big tuffed crest swimming placidly in a calm estuary, next to a muddy bank with reeds.
A digital painting of a turkey vulture from the front, wings outstretched, over a background circle containing 3 pine trees, mountains, and clouds, all in reds, yellows, and oranges.
A pair of hands holding a 7 inch legless lizard, who is mostly out straight with a curved tail, in a saltmarsh.
A 36 year old person in their living room in a skeleton onesie holding their black cat and looking happy
A view of the sunset over flat fields, taken from a car. The sky is dark blue with vivid orange and pink clouds
A fluffy tortishell cat laying on a house mat outside shaped like a black cat’s head which is directly in a sunbeam.