Commissions: Always open, prices from £20 and up depending on how complex a thing you want
Originals: Always for sale unless they are commissioned or already sold, generally £40-£100 depending on size, nedium, complexity etc, plus shipping from the UK
Yes! The first picture of them on the pencil is of babies (a lot of zoos will take pictures of new baby bush vipers on a pencil for scale, they’re so tiny!) and the adults will usually stay under about 2 feet long. And variable bush vipers especially come in so many colors!
Bush vipers are often green, but they can also be black, red, yellow, brown, grey, and even this purple-ish color.
This is now a bush viper appreciation post!
do we know why their scales are like that?
Great question! Yes, we do know why - bush vipers are highly arboreal, meaning they spend most of their lives in the branches of trees and bushes, and their heavily keeled scales help them climb. The heavy keeling also adds an element of camouflage - it helps their scales to blend in with leaves.
A horrible thing I’ve learned about myself playing Baldurs Gate 3 is that I will baby talk at in game pets. In my defence I live alone and am used to living alone with a cat to baby talk at constantly and not just my nemesis the singular last fruit fly I cannot for the life of me catch
