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And another vector practice with biological illustration, though this time it looks even less scientific and even more like children illustration. And it shows wild inconsistencies with my vectoring style! Well, it will only get better after practice suppose.. After all, I didn't even know what "bezier pen" is a week and a half ago. Anyway, even though not great, it's still quite decent educational illustration, I hope!

These are all the world's monotremes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotrem… ) that is, platypus and echidnas. Illustrations are roughly to scale with each other. Fun fact, classification of the Sir David's long-beaked echidna (Z.attenboroughi) as a separate species was based on a single specimen! But it was quite hard to get proper references on most of these... Photos of echidnas seem to be quite mislabeled around the internet and there's a bunch of subspecies, so the most useful way of recognizing the species properly seems to be number of their claws.

(edit: typo correction in the main file)

(edit2: moving the marks with IUCN red list categories from the lowest layer up so they are visible.. "OTL. )

(edit3: ehm, ehm... redoing the IUCN symbols to make them more readable... also adding current population trend symbols: green line = population stable, red arrow = population decline)

inkscape, linux, touchpad, excessive amount of time

art (c) to me

Description

And another vector practice with biological illustration, though this time it looks even less scientific and even more like children illustration. And it shows wild inconsistencies with my vectoring style! Well, it will only get better after practice suppose.. After all, I didn't even know what "bezier pen" is a week and a half ago. Anyway, even though not great, it's still quite decent educational illustration, I hope!

These are all the world's monotremes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotrem… ) that is, platypus and echidnas. Illustrations are roughly to scale with each other. Fun fact, classification of the Sir David's long-beaked echidna (Z.attenboroughi) as a separate species was based on a single specimen! But it was quite hard to get proper references on most of these... Photos of echidnas seem to be quite mislabeled around the internet and there's a bunch of subspecies, so the most useful way of recognizing the species properly seems to be number of their claws.

(edit: typo correction in the main file)

(edit2: moving the marks with IUCN red list categories from the lowest layer up so they are visible.. "OTL. )

(edit3: ehm, ehm... redoing the IUCN symbols to make them more readable... also adding current population trend symbols: green line = population stable, red arrow = population decline)

inkscape, linux, touchpad, excessive amount of time

art (c) to me