The idea
An old fieldbook awaits its first creatures. The Bestiary of the Margins is an experimental home for original doodles, imagined natural history and the discoveries that accumulate around a drawing. The public archive begins empty: its researchers are still searching.
The experience
The authoring desk lets a drawing be photographed, placed on a parchment page and given separate eyes that follow a pointer or touch. The drawing itself can remain an original raster sketch while SVG overlays supply the motion. An illustrated study can also have titled handwritten notes and, only when the artist provides another drawing, an anatomical layer beneath hinged paper flaps.
What it demonstrates
Responsive editorial design, image composition inside SVG, pointer interaction, geometric editing, local-first authoring, accessible reading controls and portable data export. Animation is secondary to the character of the original artwork.
Studio status: Early experimental fieldbook. No creatures have been publicly recorded. Drafts and drawings saved in the browser are local to that device and are not automatically published or synchronized.