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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 2d

#Invertober2025 Day 14: I am sitting this one out because a) it takes "too many appendages" far too far and b) IT IS NOT YET HALLOWEEN.

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Hexerite @hexerite.bsky.social · 2d

Day 13: Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus)

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3d

Close up

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3d

#Invertober2025 Day 13: Camponotus consobrinus, watercolour.

Verdict: could do with some wings.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3d

#Invertober2025 Day 12: Siliqua patula pen and wash.

Verdict: insufficient appendages.

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A pen and wash painting of a pacific razor clam shell

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Hexerite @hexerite.bsky.social · 5d

Day 11: Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)

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Janosch H. Irrlichtwinter @irrlichtwinter.bsky.social · 4d

Day eleven of #invertober
Dark Fishing Spider

just a li'l guy...

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 5d

#Invertober2025 Day 11: Dolomedes tenebrosus in pencil.

Verdict: too many appendages so don’t draw them.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 5d

#Invertober2025 Day 10: Lumbricus terrestris in pencil.

Verdict: I would usually say utterly inadequate appendages but this was delightfully satisfying to draw. And fast. Delightfully fast.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 5d

Argh speed-drawing catch up time!
#Invertober2025 day 9: Ascarosepion pfefferi - in interminable watercolour.

Verdict: Appendages adequate but TOO MUCH ILL-DEFINED COLOUR.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 6d

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 7d

It's Devil's Coach Horse season. 🖤
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A large black beetle, showing its aggressive 'scorpion-like' posture.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d

#Invertober day 8: Mallophora fautrix in 3B pencil - another 15-minuter, and ohmygoshitwasnotenough.

Verdict: correct number of appendages (though some seem to be made of pipe-cleaners, and it could do with some mandibles and elytra.)

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 9d

Day 7 #Invertober: Chrysomallon squamiferum. Need to get faster so gave myself only 15 minutes for this. And it shows!

Verdict: insufficient appendages, though it makes up for it with decisive fiddilness.

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