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Javier Lazaro - illustration
@lazaroillustration.bsky.social
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Scientific illustrator and wildlife artist.
Former scientist - biologist
Commissions: [email protected]
Prints store: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/javi_lazaro/
Web: https://www.lazaroillustration.com/
Human artist. No AI art.
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Yesterday at Gran Paradiso National Park. I'll be posting often about this wonderful place... Because I live here ☺️
Mountain landscape with frozen lake
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This skull is tiny! Again, illustration and photo. Could you guess the species?
The red color in the teeth that can be appreciated in the photo is their actual color 😮
#SciArt #anatomy #art #illustration #mammals
Illustration and photo of a tiny mammal skull
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Another version of the stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) with spread wings. 🪲
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
Creative process of a stag beetle drawing
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The four illustrations I have created so far for the series "Animals in the Move" for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
More coming soon!
#sciart #art
Illustration of noctule bat chasing a moth #bats #insects Illustration of hyenas #mammals Illustration of bonobos climbing a tree #bonobo #primate Illustration of an orangutan climbing a tree #orangutan #apes
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Drawing chimps
#art #sciart #chimp #wildlifeart #arttips
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The next skull is smaller. Illustration and photo. Would you guess the species? 🧐🤔
#art #anatomy #skull #mammals #sciart
Illustration and photo of a small skull
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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My two dogs playing. This might be relevant to someone out there.
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This is the first time I see one of my illustrations carved in a pumpkin 🤩
@nicholashaghani.bsky.social
🎃🎃🎃🐟🐟🐟
Illustration of a fish-man holding a DNA strain
October 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Using the golden spiral composition for the noctules' illustration
#bats #art #SciArt #batappreciationmoth
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Golden spiral overlayed on a composition of bat drawings Illustration of bats
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Using the golden spiral composition for my noctules' illustration
#art #SciArt #BatAppreciationMonth #bats
Golden spiral overlayed over a composition of bats illustrations Illustration of bats
October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Would you guess which species this alien-like skull belongs to?
Excited to start a new commission focused on skull anatomy!
#sciart #illustration #anatomy #wildlifeart #art
Drawing and photo of a small mammal skull
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) — from the first sketch to the final drawing. 🪲
First in a new series of animal illustration plates I’ve been working on.
#SciArt #insects #art #invertebrates
Photo and illustration of a stag beetle, including a few drawing steps from sketch to final
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Two slugs mating.
Collecting material for the next #invertefest ;)
#biology #wildlife #invertebrates
October 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🦇 Noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) hunting a Noctua moth.
Illustration for "Animals on the Move" series for Dina Dechmann's lab at MPI of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#SciArt #art #bats #wildlifeart #insects
Illustration of a bat chasing and hunting a moth in a sequence of drawings
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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From structure to detail — drawing a chimpanzee.
A glimpse into my process for a new series of scientific drawing sheets coming soon.

#illustration #drawingprocess #SciArt #wildlifeart #art #chimpanzee
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Next illustration of the series: lab animals
#art #digitalart #illustration
Illustration of a convey chain with frogs, rats and mice
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Working on the landscape for the bats. I've also included a swarm of insects in the background - its a hunting scene!
I always love this stage of the process

#bats #art #digitalart #insects
Line work of bats with background including insects and a forest landscape
September 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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"Fishman", proposal for a journal cover.
Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social
#art #digitalart #sciart #fish
Illustration of a fishman creature with human limbs and fish head and tail, interacting with a DNA string
September 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Working on the next piece of the "animals in the move" series for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
#art #sciart #bats 🦇
black and white illustration of flying bats and moths
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Cover illustration for the book Nursery Earth. This was a fun one :)
Book Author @dannastaaf.bsky.social
Published by The Experiment Books
#art #digitalart #booksky #illustration
Cover illustration for the book "nursery earth" depicting different cute babies of several animal species
September 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Chimpanzee cracking nuts using a stone
#art #DigitalArt
Illustration of a chimp cracking nuts
August 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Cover from last June of Molecular Biology and Evolution with my illustrations of Lonchura finches #birds #illustration #art #science
Journal cover with bird illustrations
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Detail of two hyenas
#SciArt
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Illustration of two hyaenas
August 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Some dolphin sketches. Part of a commission for
@emilam.bsky.social and Princeton University Press
@princetonupress.bsky.social
#SciArt #mammals #art #dolphins
Dolphin drawings
August 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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You can now find the Sahara swallowtail (Papilio saharae) illustrations in my web portfolio: www.lazaroillustration.com
#Sciart #insects
Scientific illustrations of the Sahara swallowtail (Papilio saharae). You can find it in high resolution here: https://www.lazaroillustration.com/butterfly
August 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM