Three, warped, ghost-like entities rising from a mug of black coffee
“Don’t Talk to Me Until I’ve Had My Souls of the Damned.”
#art
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Small dragon rearing up out of a coffee mug, roaring pink and blue flames.
Don’t Talk To Me Until I’ve Had My Brimstone
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Red kitsune mask floating above an open book. Seven white tails are sprouting from the spine of the open book
Take a look.
It’s in a book.
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A tiny girl in the foreground looks towards a horse-like monster with wings towering over shelves of books
“Yuki saw something big and scary moving through the library shelves… “
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A swarm of thimbles with legs, claws, and eyes work together to carry a book across a desk
Thimblecrabs take up residence in any brikabrack they can find. When surprised, they explode into dust and reappear by next Tuesday.
They’re the primary cause for objects being moved in the night.
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A stout little lady gnome with a wide face and bushy hair strolls under mushrooms while carrying a book
A little lady gnome on her way back from the library.
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Drawing of a bird-like figure hunched over a table reading a book with shelves looming around it
Spotted a familiar figure flipping through books in the library.
#Mothman
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I love my horrible little son.
A little fungus demon running amok in the library
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A round little guy with spikes aloe vera leaves for hair stands in front of a pile of books, holding a spear of aloe vera flowers
I’m so please with how this aloe vera sprite turned out.
I was really channeling my love of Tony DiTerlizzi’s style here.
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Tiny and grumpy humanoid hanging by its fingertips from the side of a vertical book on native Californian plants
A pinpoint clover fairy.
Pinpoint clover is an endangered species of California clover. You got this, little fairy!
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A tiny humanoid figure crouched over an open book. Instead of hair, it had the arching leaves of a spider plant.
A spider plant pixie for today. I guess it’s fairy week!
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A smirking fairy decked in oak leaves sitting on a branch with an open book on one leg.
This little jerk is an Oak Pollen Fairy. And he’s the reason everyone around me—myself included—is sneezing their butts off.
Look at him.
He knows what he’s done.
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A spindly creature with an over large head and monstrous mouth reading a book in the woods
The Dover Demon is a bioluminescent cryptid sighting that might just Be the result of kids being bored.
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A squat humanoid in a pointy hat and and oversized coat happily reads a book
Even forest trolls enjoy a good book.
Can you tell that Brian Froud and Tony DiTerlizzi were formative artists for me?
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A paper lantern with monstrous features. Two eyeballs appear through rips in the paper, and a large rip forms a mouth with a big thick tongue. The tongue is wrapped around two books.
This chōchin obake (lantern monster) is doing its best to carry home some books without any arms.
It’s a little spookier looking, and I blame it on reading about Junji Ito earlier today. I think some of the horror bled in.
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A small tapir-like creature with an extremely-wide snout. It sits behind a scattered pile of socks. Trans pride colors bedeck the small creature.
That rarest of indoorovores, the Uncommon Sock Eater.
Manifested by the belief that missing socks have to be going *somewhere,* the Eater of Socks first appears in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather.
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Open book in front of a jar holding an ephemeral, axolotl-like creature made of flame.
Reading fairy tales by salamander-light is a vibe.
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Tiny humanoid with an open book across its lap. Its oversized head is entirely a massive, sharp-toothed maw with no other features.
Due to karmic consequences for evil deeds in a past life, Preta (hungry ghosts) are afflicted with an insatiable hunger in their current incarnation.
Looks like this one got off easy with a hunger for knowledge. (Some end up hungry for poop.)
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Drawing of a tiny old man with insect legs and antennae, holding a pen with a mischievous expression on his face
Decided to come up with my own yokai.
The mujiji / mujichan is a mischievous little creature who steals your pens when you’re not looking. You might be able to hear his tiny, creaking laugh as he watches in hiding as you search fruitlessly for your missing pen.
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Strange creature with a bird skull and a long vertebrael neck atop a hairy heap of a body with ratlike claws and a hairy tale sits atop a book on a bookshelf
Hey, what’s that thing on the shelf?
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Honduras white bat snuggled up against the screen of a phone while it plays an audiobook
Audiobooks count as reading!
Look at this little Honduras White Bat! Are you gonna tell them they’re not a reader, too?
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A tortoise on a stack of books that don’t line up properly with other desk ephemera floating behind.
Today is a tortoise experiencing non-Euclidean dimensions.
Same, tortoise. Same.
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Drawing of a cartoony bee carrying a wonderful book about hot dogs
Special Bee-livery!
It’s a book!
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Book monster with a huge tongue flopping out
In my quest to draw a book mimic that my friends aren’t horny for, here’s one more.
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And open book with a single monstrous eye and lips, curling up its bookmarks in the air
Because my friends are perverts (lovingly), here’s a more alluring mimic book.
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A drawing of a monster book opening up three eyes and a toothed mouth with a bookmark tongue
Curl up with a good book?
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Nightmarish hairy humanoid with grotesquely enlarged and sunken eye sockets and a scraggly beard leers at the viewer while holding a book.
Today’s cryptid is the Skunk Ape, Florida’s smellier answer to Bigfoot.
I went a little nuts on the design, but you can only draw so many ape men variants before you crack. So … SO many ape men.
Also “terrifying nightmare Bigfoot” feels very on brand for Florida.
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Grinning, cat-headed snake looms over a book behind a nest full of eggs.
Is this tatzelwurm about to eat a nest full of eggs?
Nope! Turns out it’s just a mama reading to her kids.
Tatzelwurms are mythical cat-headed serpents that roam the woods of Central Europe.
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Baboon-like monster staring imploringly at the viewer while holding a short stack of books in huge, clawed hands.
This Almas looks like they needs some help with their books.
Almas are a hairy ape-man cryptid from Turkic lore, said to dwell in the North Caucasus region. They’re known for their enormous claws.
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A shaggy beast with bear and humanoid features reading a book
This frightening fellow is a Yeren—a hairy ape-man that lives in the mountainous forests and caves of Hubei province in China. It also may just be a bear.
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