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illustrator | writer | zinester | cartoonist! professional goofus lover of birds, cats, and faeries they www.howdybees.com

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Feb 27

📍hi everyone!
🐝🌈🎠🐱🌸🐦🍯🌟🎨
I'm M, an illustrator, and comic maker. I'm a fan of drawing critters, ttrpgs, and honestly anything that comes to mind. Expect whimsy, stay a while!

I'm open to working on book, editorial, advertising, or any other opportunities!

🐝 howdybees.com
🐝 [email protected]

A loggerhead shrike pierces a snake. Both are decorated with patterns. The scene is framed by thorny vines, fence poles, drops of blood, and barbed wire.

A risograph inspired illustration. A large bottle labeled 0.0% ABV splashes liquid and fruits out. A feminine black person with glasses and pink hair and a masculine tan person with button down and backwards baseball cap both smile and hold out champagne glasses to be filled. Text in the bottom corner reads Free Spirited The Rise of Nonalcoholic Bars in Cleveland.

A black, white, and indigo illustration featuring different spirit characters from the podcast World's Beyond Number. All characters fit within a circular composition.

An illustration of a blue dragon with long legs, tail, wings, and face. The page features a wingspan illustration, and a figure to scale. Text reads BLUE DRAGON Draconis caeruleum. Electricity produced in the dragon’s long electrical organs that trail from the tail, back, and neck. Broad wings built for long distance passive soaring over open oceans without needing to flap. Whisker-like fins used while swimming to attract small prey. Eyesight underwater is reletively poor. Electroreceptors aid in seeing in dark water. Uses it’s sharp beak to impale prey. Conductive properties of beak may assist in directing electricity.

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Jun 10

oh goodness I completely forgot to post this here but uhm my online shop is open!!! First round of packages ship out this week!
ko-fi.com/howdybees/shop

#smallshop #artprints #natureart

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Jun 24

its hot out. #makeaterriblecomicday2025

Panel 1: a snowy cottage surrounded by an ice dragon, a yeti, a seal, and snow topped pine trees. It is snowing, there's a silhouette of someone in the window. Text reads Last night I dreampt (dreamed?) I was in a snowy ice world.

Panel 2: a cat stands on ice looking over rippling water. Text reads I came upon an icy cold lake.
Panel 3: the cat has plunged into dark water, the scarf ripples off and bubbles stream from their mouth. Text reads: and I dived in.

Panel 4: a cat lies in bed in just shorts, the blankets have been mostly thrown off. Theyre sweating. A fan on the bedside table blows air at them, and a plugged in phone reads 8:16 IT HOT with a sun icon. Text reads: Scientists still dont know what this dream could possibly mean.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · Jun 24

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2025! It’s mandatory that you create some piece of sequential art — what it is and how you make it is up to you! Have fun! You might as well!

a comic. a possum is rummaging around inside a trash can. It erupts from the can holding something in its paws. “hey!” she says. She holds out the desktop calendar. “Today is June 24th! Look!” She leans on the edge of the trash can. “that means today is make a terrible comic day!” She produces a ballpoint pen from the trash and clicks it. “the idea is to just make something! no rules, just enjoy the act of creation! (Or don’t and just do it anyway)” she is drawing on the cardboard back of the calendar. “tell a story, tell a joke, make something silly or sublime or totally abstract! make something and don’t stop making it until it’s made!” She holds up her little comic with pride. “tell your inner critic to ‘fuck off!’ make a terrible comic!”

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Jun 24

its hot out. #makeaterriblecomicday2025

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Megan “the Artoonist” Jurek @megantheartoonist.bsky.social · Jun 18

I am enchanted by this dog named Billboard up for adoption at Lucas County Canine Care & Control. I cannot adopt Billboard, but I hope my art might help him find a home!

#art #cartoon #dogs #adoptabledog #shelterdog #rescuedog #adoptdontshop

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Jun 10

oh goodness I completely forgot to post this here but uhm my online shop is open!!! First round of packages ship out this week!
ko-fi.com/howdybees/shop

#smallshop #artprints #natureart

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 29

WBN keeps making bangers after bangers of iconic moments. folks, I got chills.

@worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social #worldsbeyondnumber #wbnfanart

The witch Ame from World's Beyond Number flying on a broom. The fox is poking out of her bag on her hip. Both have their mouths agape in the midst of laughter. A blue starry night sky is behind them, and smoky orange clouds far below. The image is slightly glitched, as if it's a scene being played on an old TV.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · May 28

You have FOUR (4) more days to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt, designed by the lovely and talented @franzanth.bsky.social.

In this nightmare of a year, merch is keeping @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat. Even if you don't order, RT's help so much!

Get 'em: squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 23

WHAT!!!! A ko-fi shop where you can get prints & stickers & zines? Thats crazy. WHAT???? Its coming to a cyber space near you JUNE 1ST!! AND its my artwork???? YAHOO!!! 🌎🌱🌿🧪🐦
#natureillustration #shopsmall #launch

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 29

hey if you like birds and really good music go check out this pod. gamble's quail's song has been stuck in my head for the past week!!

Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · May 7

episode two of my new “extremely accurate bird songs” podcast is out today!! come take a spooky trip to the desert with… the Gambel’s Quail! only 17,998 bird songs to go…

shows.acast.com/extremely-ac...

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Megan “the Artoonist” Jurek @megantheartoonist.bsky.social · May 23

Concrete hot dog of dogs I painted at my job! It’s about the size of an actual hot dog.

#concretepainting #statuepainting #concretestatue #hotdog #dogs #painting #art

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D, Hunter of the Dead 💙🌙✨ @dekubrush.bsky.social · Sep 17

Being a digital artist is exhausting 🤷‍♂️

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 10

that is to say I've been getting into fish recently. have you seen a pumpkinseed before? gorgeous. 10/10

👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 10

I love birds but u need to know I have many hands and love all animals.

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Apr 1

WAIT
#comic

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Apr 10

from punishment to kindness

#illustration 🎨🌿

An illustration of a gray and white pit bull leaping from left to right. The dog has a black eye, scrapes on its legs, and has its tail tucked between its legs. It is surrounded by bluebells and pink roses that all sparkle. Text above and below the image says I HAVE TO BELIEVE WE CAN MOVE FROM PUNISHMENT TO KINDNESS.

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 6

let’s explore with mama…🌸🐦🐇

🌿🎨🌎🧪 #easterncottontail #cherryblossom #easternbluebird

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · May 6

let’s explore with mama…🌸🐦🐇

🌿🎨🌎🧪 #easterncottontail #cherryblossom #easternbluebird

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🌿 Jay 🐝 @ringofbees.bsky.social · Apr 27

I have a few slots open for character commissions this week!
Please share if you can ✨ DM with any questions!

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henry m. hachtel @hawktailceramics.bsky.social · Mar 7

wolf shot glass 🐺

a light green wheel thrown shot glass decorated with two stylized purple wolves, shown in portrait looking at each other. they both have big, dark blue noses.

the same light green shot glass shown from the other side. it is decorated with a single, stylized purple wolf head, with a big toothy lavender grin and a big dark blue nose. the glaze has run together in a couple areas.

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Apr 17

what the hey, bat appreciation day?? take some fuzzy guys!!

#bats #illustration 🦇

An illustrated poster titled BATS OF EASTERN US. Each bat is stylistically illustrated, has a cute little face, and hangs upside down. They are numbered and labeled in order. 1. Northern Long-eared 2. Silver Haired 3. Hoary 4. Big Brown 5. Eastern Red 6. Tri-colored.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · Apr 12

John Hanna’s covers for Country Fair in the 1950s were really rather wonderful. Brilliant design, brilliant execution.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · Apr 8

Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Apr 10

from punishment to kindness

#illustration 🎨🌿

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