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i draw bugs and stuff. offline on the weekends. please ask before using my images. he/him 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇩 contact: franzanth at gmail portfolio: franzanth.com Hashtags: #Art #SciArt #Gardening 🦋 elder #49,927

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Aug 27

Activities for this season of #InverteFest:

Community science
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Art book submission form
docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHk...

Writer/artist collab anthology
bsky.app/profile/saim...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11m

did you ever read the manga? it's bonkers

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2h

still top tier as always

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CuttleDreams 🪱🪳 @cuttledreams.bsky.social · 2h

Took me a hot minute but I'm finally back in the game 🥓 #Invertober

1: Japanese Sea Nettle
2: Red-banded Leafhopper
3: Giant Green Anemone

Three drawings of arthropod animals in squared formats. The first is a gold and brown jellyfish, the second a red and blue leafhopper, and the third a cluster of green sea anemones in various states of retraction.

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 4h

I didn’t have time to paint this guy today but I REAAAAALLY wanted to so I made it happen. He’s just a little guy!! 🥹

I think I need to do the series of hummingbirds I keep thinking about.

#Birdtober day 14 is the Costa’s #Hummingbird.

🪶 🐡 #ArtChallenge #DigitalArt #Art #BirdArt #HumanMadeArt

A digital gouache painting of an extremely small, extremely fluffy brownish and cream hummingbird with intense purple and magenta iridescent feathers bracketing his eyes and face. He has a long beak and looks right at the viewer, his super teeny feet gripping a thin branch. Foliage and flowers against a blue sky fill the background. His wings are folded in rest.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2h

#Paleoctober2025 day 13 and 14 paleoart sketches with the early stick grasshopper Eoproscopia and the strange shaped coelacanth Allenypterus.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Eoproscopia #Allenypterus

The Early Cretaceous stick grasshopper perched on a giant horsetail. It has well developed wings.

The lobe-finned fish swimming in the Late Carboniferous tropical shallows.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2h

i don't remember how but i found and blocked her a while back

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 7h

I didn't realize Sabine was over here, but when I looked at her feed ... she endorses the "low white birthrates" stuff, in addition to being anti-trans and friends with noted sexual harasser/friend of Epstein Lawrence Krauss. So, I recommend blocking as fast as possible.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 3h

disclaimer: i'm chicken

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 3h

it's really good lol

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 3h

now what's stopping you from doing this on aseprite

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h

hmmm valid point

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h

i swear this is an animal

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Lia Pas @liapas.bsky.social · 15h

It’s #PortfolioDay! I’m a multidisciplinary artist whose visual work is #SciArt #symptomatology and #anatomy #embroidery. I’m also a writer and composer.

If you’d like to support what I do, you can tip me on ko-fi ko-fi.com/lia_pas

Stars within, stars without (2017). Face detial . An embroidery on ochre linen. There is the outline of a head and neck. There are blue filigree lines coming from the sides of the head outline towards the centre of the face. A fine off white line outlines the head and moves down the neck and out along the arms. On the centre chest is a cluster of off-white crosses and a few sparse crosses are around the head and shoulders as well.

woman in skull (2016)

An embroidery on bone coloured linen of the inside of a human skull looking down from a cut open top done in thin black thread. The textures make it look like the Vesalius woodcut it is based on. In the bottom left corner of the skull there is the tiny silhouette of a woman done in bronze thread.

Autumnal Mitosis Sampler (2024)

Two cells dividing embroidered on off white linen. A circle of brown stem stitch is the cell membrane, the corona radiata is in bright orangey yellow zig zag chain stitch. The edges of the dividing cells are in bright orange split stitch. The nucleolus of each cell is in bright yellow bullion stitch. The cytoplasm is stitched in variegated orange/brown thread in a mix of seed stitch and French knots. Lia’s initials are stitched in off white whipped back stitch.

thrum (2016)

An embroidery on off-white linen. A thyroid cartilage is stitched in thick black thread like a woodcut. Below it the word “thrum” is stitched in ochre thread in a type-like font. To the bottom right the initials L.P. are stitched in thin thread the same colour as the linen.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h

buttwich?

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Blue Owl Song @blueowlsong.bsky.social · 15h

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Blue Owl Song, and these are some of my most recent works! I am also an aspiring writer, and I work with pen, digital, and sometimes acrylic. I also have a Redbubble!

bsky.app/profile/blue...

Koi, Sept 2025

Colored pen illustration of several koi fish of various sizes overlapping each other as they swim under lilypads and the loose leaves of pond weeds. Four of the fish are very small and brightly colored in shades of blue green or with orange and blue or pink, blue, and purple with black and no white visible. Others are mostly white with black and red to orange or yellow spots. The four biggest fish have the most variation in color and have more shading. The top left large fish is mostly red and white to creamy yellow, with shades of orange and cool dark pink used for contrast, with large defined red spots and facing right while curling in a C. The fish swimming under its head is facing up and deeply saturated with a mostly blue back shaded with purple and green, with black spots outlined in pink down the spine, and the head has warm pink, orange, yellow, and red broken up by black spots and blobby shapes. The large fish on the bottom right is facing left and mostly horizontal with the tail curling up. It is lightly shaded in light blue, pink, and yellow, with a few spots of pink, darker blue, and mixes of these colors. Swimming under the part where the body narrows into the tail is a dark, mostly green tinted less saturated blue koi with red on its back along its tail, and pink/yellow and pink/white large spots on the head.

Crystallized and Molten, Sept 2025

Pen drawing of two dragons, one with most of its head facing left visible in the foreground with somewhat crystalline and somewhat organic shapes for its floral looking eye and leaf like shapes from it to the neck and snout, with three long lobes on the back of its head. The central gem is colored in with orange, a few around it are pink/purple, and the leaf-like shapes are emerald or citrine green. The large sections around it are filled in with black with some white visible to show shine and the rough texture of raw obsidian. Lines of orange surround them. The crest of the head is colored in saturated pink with dark pink bands and a few uncolored areas as highlights.

In the background and making up the top half is a dragon with a crystal round eye colored with turquoise blue and several imperfect and sometimes curved edged gems emerging from the side of its face and back, almost like the plates of a stegosaurus but more 3D. There are multiple sections on its body colored like different precious stones such as black opal, green jasper, malachite, tiger's eye, hawk's eye, etc., and smaller gems emerging as if the dragon is made of cracked rocks with gems poking out from it. These gems and cracks along its body are colored in a variety of colors based on different gems including yellow/orange citrine, dark red zircon, brighter red ruby, deep blue sapphire, turquoise or purple alexandrite, purple amethyst, emeralds, and lighter green peridots. The snout of this dragon is colored with bands of purple, turquoise, blue, yellow, and orange, based on a rainbow fluorite.

Fortune Reader, Full Color, Sept 2025

Based on the Smaugust prompt, Oracle, is a lightly colored black and white drawing, with some areas shaded lightly to heavily in colored pens, of a mostly serpentine dragon coiled slightly on itself and facing right. It has a long head with a black rectangular eye framed by a dramatic eyebrow, and it has two forelimbs with three clawed fingers each, the left holding open a book in front of it, scrawled in illegibly to the audience, while its right is bent closer and holding a card face up with two crescent moons back to back. Its head is topped by sinuous horns that curl back and straight up and are adorned in jewelry and henna-like tattoos. The body and horns have light brown shading in a few places, the left forelimb blending in with the sandy yellow/brown loosely shaded ground.

A pair of lightly red shaded bat wings sprout from the shoulders and have rings pierced through them. The dragon is covered in more tattoos, including many eye motifs along the tail and elbows, and a long water dragon amongst a wave on its back, curling in and out of view. That is shaded blue and turquoise while others are black and white. The tail has red-gold jewelry pieces, including bangles on the end, and a fabric-looking purple piece.

Ripples- Duck Magic

The first entry in my series based on my magic Birds in the world building for my fantasy setting. Ducks combine the magic of Water, Flowers, and the Wild Hunt of the fey into Ripple magic, a magic of abundance, of the gradual effects of actions taken by oneself or by others, and of the power to be found in embracing change instead of fighting it. Water magic is teal colored, Floral magic is pink, and Hunt magic is green.

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Colored gel pen illustration of a duck with dark teal green feathers that are mottled with light and dark green on the head, light green and blue with dark green on the neck and bottom of the body under the wings, which are in shades of pink and a few spots of yellow. The top of the body has pink and yellow among the other colors, and the breast has pink, blue, and dark green. The beak is orange/pink. The duck sits on a pond with pink, blue, teal, and green ripples radiating out from it.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h

hello internet, i'm not dead, i'm just busy making accidental butts on blender

blender screenshot with a vague object that looks like two pancakes on top of each other with a brown object with massive cheeks between the pancakes

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15h

chicken
anime

OPENING | What's a Hero? by Daruma ROLLIN' | Rooster Fighter | VIZ

YouTube video by vizmedia

www.youtube.com

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 17h

Hello #PortfolioDay!
I’m not currently looking for work, but I do sell a selection of nature illustrations via InPrnt (prints), RedBubble (stickers etc) and Bonfire (clothes).

You can find links or sign up for my newsletter on my website.

🔗 stoutheartstudio.com

Cara: cara.app/Stoutheartst...

A digital gouache illustration of two kalij pheasants, one male with blue and steel feathers, and one female with white edged brown feathers with steely iridescence. They bow over a front foot to each other. The male has a large tail, head plume, and a red accent around his eyes. The female is less flashy but still wears a red face mask.

A digital gouache painting of the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, with rolling pine covered foothills and a red sandstone rock formation from Garden of the Gods in the foreground. The dramatic sky overhead is stormy with sun breaking through the pink and purple.

A digital gouache and gold illustration of a Purple Shot Copper butterfly resting. Its orange wings are open slightly, shading towards purple on the outside and especially near its fuzzy body. Its long striped antenna wave over large dark eyes. The bright wings are edged in orange, black and white stripes, and block spots the wings.

A digital painting of a ruby slippers Echevaria, a succulent known for its bright red velvety look when sunstressed. The green leaves shade to red on each of the three leaf rosettes. The leaves are pointed and scoop shaped, and they are edged in gold leaf to accent the geometry of the plant.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 16h

welcome to worms lmao

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 17h

Day 13 #Invertober2025 - Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 😬

holy hell this thing took the most time out of any other #invertober critter i have ever drawn, partially because there are NO GOOD REFS except for its face

#SciArt #invertebrates

semi-realistic drawing of a bobbit worm, a very segmented deep sea worm with a massive jaw at the front and a very holographic sparkly body with two little leg like structures at each segment, on a black background.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 17h

Huzzah, it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danielle and I paint and illustrate spacecraft, planets, and interesting landscapes in watercolor and ink. Fond of ink textures and pointillism. No AI here, just space and rocks/geology. 🪐🪨🚀

Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com

Thanks for looking!

DUST OF OSIRIS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the top-down view of the opened sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Circular sections and hexagonal bolts are seen among the rocky material in the middle ring, framed by lotus flower motifs and patterned circles with geometric ink designs drawn in an ancient Egyptian style with gold accents. A ring of painted turquoise, lapis and carnelian rectangles accented with gold surrounds the inkwork. Inspired by the decorative motifs of Tutankhamen’s treasures, and the Art Deco-tinged Egyptian Revival movement that arose from the discovery of said treasures.

DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY by Danielle Rose Baker. An ink illustration of a Saturn V rocket and launch tower during the launch of Apollo IV. The top two-thirds is a roiling sky of clouds rendered in blue, dark teal and navy inks, some with shimmering effects. Outlined against this, the launch tower is seen in shades of brown-orange. The rocket is bathed in warm light and yellow-tinged exhaust expands below, with dark shapes outlining the base of the launch pad.

HUES OF VENUS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent false-color watercolor painting on black paper of the cloudy atmosphere of Venus as seen by the JAXA Atatsuki spacecraft in 2020. In this view, the clouds are seen in swirls and ribbons of gold and dark blue, combining to blue-grays.

UBEHEBE CRATER by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of Ubehebe Crater at Death Valley National Park. An explosive volcanic crater dusted with snow against an overcast sky. The crater wall has many layers, in shades of brown, tan and orange. The foreground is darker brown, with lighter splotches of snow.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 18h

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 17h

god DAMN

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 18h

🐮🔥 COVER REVEAL TIME 💚🐺
Another amazing illustration by @caraid.bsky.social. Look at those colors! The buffalo's name is Lune, and you'll meet her VERY SOON, because Feral Flame will release NOVEMBER 11!
#NossSaga #BookSky 🌈📚

Cover for Feral Flame - Book Four of the Noss Saga, by Joaquín Baldwin. A one-horned buffalo holds her hands forward to control a green flame shaped like a running wolf. Her brown fur is draped with long white fabrics that flow in the wind and blend into the pink mist behind her. Her horn is decorated with golden caps and rings, her nose and ears pierced. Her green eyes stare directly at the viewer.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 18h

Hey #PortfolioDay 🙂‍↕️🙌 I'm a Dutch artist who primarily works in marine life themed sculpture 🐙🪸

🏠 SculptedReef.com
💌 [email protected]

Makana, a hand sculpted clay octopus depicting the species octopus cyanea. Its arms are swirling around its body and it leans back on three of them.

Aurora, a sculpture depicting the Caribbean Reef Octopus. A bluish teal octopus with webbed maroon patterns and bright green patches around the eyes.

A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and corals woven from tiny glass beads.

A mixed media artwork featuring two hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus and colorful corals woven from tiny glass beads.

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