Vojta Hybl

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🎨 mixed media illustrator, writer, educator 🪨 geology • nature • timefulness 📍 Cairngorms NP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇿🏳️‍🌈 he/him My debut book ROCKS out now: https://geni.us/Rocks Website + shop: vojtahybl.com/links

A gouache and coloured pencil illustration of an adult black-and-white Goat Moth resting on a beige willow branch. In the middle of the branch is a dark gap with a dark red Goat Moth caterpillar inside. The background is a vivid green shade
A gouache illustration of 11 caddisfly larvae in a variety of cases made from sand, gravel, leaves, stems and gastropod shells. The background is painted light blue with visible brush strokes.
A coloured pencil sketch of a moth with grey-blue and brown wings. A hand written text below reads Poplar Hawk-moth.
A beige-coloured book with the title ROCKS on top of the cover, a grey and white striped rock illustration inside a white rectangle in the middle. Below, the subtitle A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell, and the name of the author-illustrator, Vojta Hybl. #SciArt
A close-up photo of a burgundy red Sphagnum moss
A gouache and coloured pencil illustration showing a cross-section view of a blanket bog. On top are living green and red Sphagnum mosses; in the muddle a dark brown layer of peat; the bottom shows a stripy grey and light layer of folded metamorphic gneiss.
Two book spreads. Above, featuring PEGMATITE on the left and PERIDOTITE on the right. Below, a landscape illustration of a lava flow and a volcanic eruption in Iceland
A book spread featuring PLASTIGLOMERATE on the left and PYROPLASTIC on the right
A beige book cover with a grey rock in the middle cut by white streaks. The title says ROCKS, below, the subtitle is A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell, Vojta Hybl. Illustrations of rocks surround the cover.
A hand holding artwork featuring three fungi. On the left is a fly agaric with a bright red cap and a white stem. In the muddle is a bitter beech bolete with a brown cap and an orange-pink stem. On the right is a brown birch bolete with a brown cap and a white stem with spots.
A gouache illustration of the ecosystem of Rhynie Chert in Scotland. In this illustration are a few inhabitants of ancient Rhynie: Asteroxylon (a green club-like plant) and Rhynia (plants with pink tips, where it released spores from) on land. In the water on the right, two red, shrimp-like Lepidocaris rhyniensis swim around Palaeonitella algae. They grow on top an older, already petrified ecosystem – the dark shapes are the solidified plant stems so typical for Rhynie Chert. In the background are reddish mountains and a grey, rainy sky.
A deceased beige-grey moth with black and blue underwings lying on wet pavement. There is a thumb holding their wing down.
An calendar open on February. The top page features a colourful illustration of a komatiite rock on a light background. The dates on the bottom page are underlain by pink bars.
An calendar open on December. The top page features a colourful illustration of a puddingstone rock on a black background. The dates on the bottom page are underlain by colourful bars.
A close-up of a calendar page for August. The dates are underlain by a pink bar. On the 9th, there is an event titled ‘the Boring Billion begins’. On the 17th, there is an event titled ‘multicellular life evolves’.
A gouache illustration of a male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) sitting against ultramarine blue sky. There are four windows showing the bird change the plumage colour with the seasons. In autumn, they are grey to blend in with the rocks. In winter, the feathers moult into a snowy white. In spring and summer, the colour transitions into a mottled grey-brown to hide them in vegetation.
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
A grey, wavy cloud covering the whole sky. Light passes through it in places, creating lighter patches and a very dramatic look.
A mixed media illustration of a curlew in a coastal mudflat. The sky is pink and grey, its colours reflecting in the water. The scene is framed in the foreground by dark green grassy hummocks.
A sketchbook page with gouache and coloured pencil illustrations of leaves of plants found in the Caledonian pinewood. Starting on top, clockwise: alder, wavy hair grass Scots pine Scots pine, twinflower, eared willow, blaeberry, rowan, wood sorrel, downy birch, Scots pine again, juniper, holly,bog myrtle, sessile oak, common heather. #SciArt
A hand holding an illustration of seagrass with ten green leaf blades pointing to the right. A small reddish stalked jellyfish is attached to the bottom leaf on the right.
A gouache painting of a Eurasian jay holding an acorn in her beak. To her right is a pencil sketch of a lichen. #SciArt #gouache #illustration
Gouache and coloured pencil colour swatch: it’s made of large blocks of pale yellow-brown and dark grey, a smaller field of warm pale grey, and a small striped blue detail. All colour typical of a certain bird species. #SciArt
A hand specimen of white and black banded Lewisian gneiss lying on top of yellow, brown and blue background full of various marks made with different art tools.
A sketchbook laying on brown rocks alongside a tube of paint. It features a blue painting of a tidal loch with ripples. #SciArt
A scientific illustration of a bleeding tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) on a woody background. The underside clearly shows the “teeth” which are actually where the spores are released from. The fungus forms mycorrhizal relationships with conifers – in Scotland, it is found near the Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest.
A hand holding a small sketchbook with illustration of two snowgoggles. They both have two narrow slits to avoid snow blindness.
A pencil sketch illustration of a broken comb missing all but a few of its teeth. It is decorated with a Norse geometric design, hinting at its Viking origins.
A hand holding a small sketchbook with grey illustrations of a bird figurine, three painted pebbles and a boar in a Pictish style. A rock with the boar in question is in the background of the photo.
A hand holding a small sketchbook with several illustrations: a decorated pottery fragment, a spiky faience bead, a chunky key, a green brooch and a white carving of a Viking boat on a dark slate. In the background are artefacts in a display case.
More illustrations on the same page in the previous post: two spindle wheels (a green and a tan one), a whalebone plaque decorated with concentric circles and a weathered bronze ingot.
Sketchbook illustrations of three artefacts: a beard comb with spiral decoration, an arrowhead and a Roman bone spoon
A hand holding a small sketchbook with a grey illustration of a large slab of orbicular granodiorite. The reference rock is in the background.
A hand holding a sketchbook with a coloured pencil drawing of several grey-and-red faulted rock layers which are seen in the background of the photo.
A sketchbook with a colourful drawing of mountains in the Scottish Highlands.
A quick coloured pencil sketch of the NOAA baby crab that broke the internet.
Branching lichen growing on the sides of a branch. In the middle of it is a whitish yellow fungus, likely a species called White Brain.
A hand holding a sketchbook with a green, grey and blue illustration of a rocky shoreline