semi-realistic drawing of a fried egg jellyfish on a black background, the top looks like red egg yolk in the middle surrounded by egg shite, the bottom has yellow, white and blue dots/tentacles.

drawing of a phainopepla, a small black and grey bird with a mohawk plumage and a bored looking red eye.

drawing of the jurassic crab Callichimaera perplexa, a crab with absolutely giant manga/anime eyes, looks super UwU, black ink white fill on a light orange background.

I'm still gonna do #Invertober2025, but here are some of my fav from 3 recent #SciArt challenges
#Invertober2024
#BirbFest2025
#AugArthroAwe

Did a handful of #AugArthroAwe prompts last month & this study became a fave, for the fun texture play.

I'm so happy it's in the latest #InverteFest art book! With an amazing collection of invertebrate art: drive.google.com/file/d/19wfG...

#SciArt 🐡 #art #artists #illustration #bugs #BugSky

I'm late! Ah!
But Goodbye #AugArthroAwe #Invertefest!

Peruphasma shultei - Black Beauty Stick Insect Study

Photo Reference from USMANTIS

A pill millipede uncurling, a sleeping bee holding itself with its mandibles on a stick and a phasmid abdomen curled up

#AugArthroAwe

Here it is, the complete month of #AugArthroAwe drawings!

#InverteFest #TradArt

an open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a fuzzy bee

an open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a black stick insect

Here are the FINAL two drawings for #AugArthroAwe and #InverteFest! I actually finished another drawing challenge! I'm planning to make a zine of the entire month of drawing at some point to join the rest of my art zines.

drawing collage of 32 invertebrates in black ink, white fill on a colored square column 1 - dark green column 2 - medium green column 3 - light green column 4 - yellow column 5 - light orange column 6 - orange column 7 - red in the middle there is a list of drawn organisms: August Arthropod Awesomeness 2025 1. Tachypleus tridentatus 2. Opabinia 3. Cysteodemus wislizeni 4. Zosimus aeneus 5. Syromastus rhombeus 6. Epimeria rubrieques 7. Bittacomorpha clavipes 8. Allomyrina dichotoma 9. Deinacrida elegans 10. Jaekelopterus 11. Meloe variegatus 12 Decolopoda australis 13. Scyllarides elisabethae 14. Thosea vetusta 15. Cyrtophora citricola 16.Colliuris pensylvanica 17. Callichimaera perplexa 18. Lamarckdromia beagle 19. Tachypompilus ignitus 20. Conchoderma virgatum 21. Cephonodes hylas 22. Sosxetra grata 23. Chelorrhina Polyphemus 24. Caprella penantis 25. Hagenius brevistylus 26. Pseudopulex jurassicus 27. Nemoptera sinuata 28. Xestocasis iostrota 29. Zoosphaerium neptunus 30. Thyreus pictus 31. Peruphasma schultei extra. Blaberus craniifer

and the #AugArthroAwe collage is complete! I quite enjoyed these 15-20min sketch version of inverts compared to the 1.5-2h ones I do for #Invertober (which is probably the next challenge I'll take part of, need to catch up to commissions now...)

#invertebrates #SciArt

doodle in black ink and white fill of a death's head cockroach, a chunky cockroach with a halloween pumpkin shaped splotch on their thorax.

Extra day of #AugArthroAwe - Death's Head Cockroach (Blaberus craniifer)

and with this let's start the pre-Halloween mode! 🎃

#invertebrates #SciArt

doodle in black ink and white fill on an orange background of a black beauty stick insect, a chunky stick insect looking to the camera with two teensy dotted wings.

Day 31 of #AugArthroAwe - Black Beauty Stick insect (Peruphasma schultei)

she do be beauty, but not so much grace

#invertebrates #SciArt

one more #InverteFest, one more #AugArthroAwe...

and then I must to draw a FISH 🐟

doodle in black ink and white fill on a light orange background of a cuckoo bee, a very fancy strongly colored bee, here shown as a stark contrast between the black and white stripes on the thorax and abdomen.

Day 30 of #AugArthroAwe - Neon Cuckoo Bee (Thyreus pictus)

love me some kleptoparasitic bugs, but those colors are too EXTRA to be sneaky

#invertebrates #SciArt

Ink and watercolor drawing of a pill millipede, with a long segmented green body and many legs, standing in a natural background of greens and browns.

Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a month trying to be an ant

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a rolled up roly poly

Two more days of drawings for #AugArthroAwe and #InverteFest. Two days left!!

#TradArt

Illustration of a brown, blue, beige, and orange dragonfly on a teal background with handwritten text "libélula Antillean slyph"

Libélula Antillean Slyph for #InverteFest & #AugArthroAwe!

➕➕ #BugSky #art #illustration ➕➕

Five black sumi ink drawings of insects and a shrimp. The shrim is long and almost like a stick with hairy appendages. Below it is a large dragonfly. There's also a moth with bristly thin wings and a lacewing with zebra striped two pairs of wings, the top broad and butterfly like in shape and the rear thin like a baby spoon. There's also a louse like insect from the jurassic with a football shaped body, large legs with hooklike feet and a large intimidating proboscis to pierce through dinosaur skin. A single drop of blood hangs off the backside.

#AugArthroAwe

There's like one artist rendition of Pseudopulex jurassicus that shows up in search and apologies to them but I don't think it looks much like the fossil; honestly it looks more like a weevil than a flea or louse tbh

doodle in black ink and white fill on a yellow background of a rolly polly, very shimmery with a very cute eye, slightly curved.

Day 29 of #AugArthroAwe - Giant Emerald Pill Millipede (Zoosphaerium neptunus)

you can have your blue and red pill, I'm taking the green one 💚
(unfortunately it falls on the yellow square)

#invertebrates #SciArt

Illustration of a pink, black, and orange Spanish Moth with handwritten text "Spanish Moth, La Polilla Española, Xanthopastis timais"

La Polilla Española or Spanish Moth for #InverteFest & #AugArthroAwe 🖤

➕➕ #BugSky #art #illustration ➕➕

doodle in black ink and white fill on a light green background of an ant mimic moth, a very thin moth with fuzzy legs and wings, with a very thin profile view, looks a bit like an ant.

Day 28 of #AugArthroAwe - Ant Mimic Moth (Xestocasis iostrota)

is it an ant?? is it a moth?? it's a BUGGE!

#invertebrates #SciArt

Ink and watercolor drawing of a winged insect with narrow body and wide wings in patterns of pale blue and black, and a second pair of very narrow wings that go backwards. The background is green foliage.

Here's my rendition of the ethereal Spoonwing Lacewing, ink and watercolor #AugArthroAwe #invertefest

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a lacewing, which looks like a cross between a dragonfly and butterfly with two really long tails

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of an ancient flea with a long proboscis and long antennae relative to modern fleas

Two more days of #AugArthroAwe. Only four left to go!

#InverteFest #TradArt

doodle in black ink and white fill on a green background of a Spoonwing Lacewing, a very fancy lacewing with fully white and black patterned wings, the front are larger while the two back wings look almost like a feathered tail.

Day 27 of #AugArthroAwe - Spoonwing Lacewing (Nemoptera sinuata)

since when are lacewings allowed to be this pretty?? 👗

#invertebrates #SciArt

Sketchbook page with flowers, person, and dragonfly

#sketchbook #augarthroawe

A purple, blue, and brown butterfly on a teal green background with handwritten text, Mariposa "Hanno Blue"

Mariposa Hanno Blue for #AugArthroAwe & #InverteFest 🦋

➕➕ #BugSky #art #illustration #AnimalArtTuesday ➕➕

Illustration of a multicolored shrimp on a peach background with handwritten text "chágara giradora"

Chágara Giradora or Spinning Freshwater Shrimp for #InverteFest & #AugArthroAwe 🦐

The word chágara comes from the surviving Taino word guábara, which is also still used to describe our various freshwater shrimp.

➕➕ #art #illustration #BugSky #AnimalArtTuesday ➕➕

doodle in black ink and white fill on a green background of a jurassic flea, it looks like a giant chubby flea with a suspicious little eye.

Day 26 of #AugArthroAwe - Pseudopulex jurassicus

good thing the 2cm FLEAS are extinct... the ITCH

#invertebrates #SciArt

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a dragonfly larva which has a large, flat, circular abdomen

An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a skeleton shrimp that looks like a long, skinny alien with inexplicable appendages

Here are the last couple days of drawings for #AugArthroAwe and also #InverteFest.

Illustration of a black and white Zebra Longwing butterfly on a red background with handwritten text "Mariposa Cebra"

Starting off InverteFest with Mariposa Cebra or Zebra Longwing Butterfly 🦓🦋

➕➕ #InverteFest #AugArthroAwe #BugSky
#art #illustration ➕➕

doodle in black ink and white fill on a red background of a Dragonhunter, a giant dragonfly with massive eyes, a black stipey thorax and black back abdomen, long legs ready to grab.

Day 25 of #AugArthroAwe - Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus)

what have I done to deserve TWO Odonata in 24h aughhh 🐉🪰

#invertebrates #SciArt

It is skeleton shrimp day my dudes! 🦐
You are required to give Krystal your radioactive Walmart shrimp scampi 🍤

#augarthroawe #invertefest #bugOC #shrimpOC