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Natalie Metzger
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🎨 Illustrator and designer
🏔️ Pacific Northwest
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Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 🪶 #birds
A borb of a humming bird illustration with large grumpy eyes, tiny flappy flap wings, a shiny throat, so small, much anger
November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I mean, yes, but… wait wait wait… hold on… WHAT
“Newell pointed out there was a gull found in the whale's mouth. She said the gull may have become trapped when the humpback came up for fish, and that the humpback wouldn't have been able to swallow it because its throat is only about the size of a grapefruit.” close up of one of the photos in the article, a very dead gull stuck in the baleen and wing sticking out of whale’s mouth
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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late season snek, spicy
a small brightly colored garter snake with a yellow stripe down their back and black and red checkerboard markings along their side, they are flattened and curled in an infinity shape, there are two fall leaves and some needles with fall colors underlining the snake, snake is very angry human had the gall to walk on the same sidewalk they were using, very very not pleased, this snake sidewalk only
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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One, I'm still thinking about this, the most perfectest pun, and two... yup, checks out
rough doodle on a sticky note of a sort of only fans-esque logo, except it's an oliphaunt head with the main skull forming the "O" and eye and the "F" now a "P" as the ear that swoops into one of the tusks, trunk curled in a spiral, lower jaw tusk popping out behind nose, text in Middle Earth flavored font reads "Only Phaunts" following the curve of the head
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Oh gosh, digging around in my old art I also found this gem. I kinda want to make her into a sticker. 😂
illustration of a crow opossum... opossum crow? anyway, she has three babies on her back and has her mouth open and is probably hissing at you to back the heck up, opossum head, crow body, opossum tail, dark beady eyes
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I'm suddenly reminded of the time a made a fictitious Gorey-esque album cover
Illustration of a fellow in a thick long fur coat, beard, pointy shoes, Panama hat with feathers, and big glasses, walking a large tall cat that has long thin stilt legs on a leash, title reads "Tall Cat" in fancy cursive lettering and swoopy embellishment underline
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Happy #GodzillaDay!
Graphic style illustration of a large blue monster lizard with jagged evergreen tree shaped red/orange back spines, large open toothy mouth, two stumps of feets, skinny arms holding donuts while head reaches for a larger donut, long tail curving up into a small spiral, electric chartreuse background blob
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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loving the little fresno nightcrawer guys mug from @korybing.bsky.social. makes my breakfast extra fun! 🥰💖
a teal camp mug full of tea, covered with an illustration of a bunch of cutie white ghosty-pants cryptid creatures walking around awkwardly on their too long legs, a coffee cake on a small sea critter design plate next to it, other desk stuff like the snail note holder, keyboard, books holding up my monitor in the background
October 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Motivational Mucus! Behold the glorious Pigbutt Worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Comic - Panel 1: close up of a worm face with two tentacles and a mouth shaped like a 'w', sort of cat-like, they are saying "Remember, when life gives you a dark cold void, cast your invisible mucus web to ensnare all the joy and nourishment floating in the world." Panel 2: large panel with the round butt-shaped worm barfing out a sheet of sparkling mucus, sound effect in the mucus "BLARGHHH"
September 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Good morning! Please enjoy this happy trashy friend. 🦑 #SciArt
Priscilla the Rainbow Parrotfish, a sculpture made of washed up marine trash from the "Washed Ashore" exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, created by the Washed Ashore team. A jumble of colorful plastic pieces sculpted into a fish with protruding teeth and large eye. 3/4 view from the front, one pectoral fin extended in a friendly waving position. the sculpt is atop a drab pile of plastic bits sculpted to look like a sea floor with some invertebrates with starfish and coral shapes. the aquarium building in the background, blue sky with sun creating a lens flare over the fish eye.
September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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my body after having to sit for waaaaaay too much over the past 5 weeks... *various crinkling noises coming from everywhere*
screen cap of Puppycat from Bee and Puppycat, laying on a pile of pillows, trying to roll over, but all body parts making terrible cracking noises with little lightning bolt ouchie effects, pained expression
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Take a moment to watch the stream of butterflies. 🦋 #invertebrate

California tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica) - every moving dot is a butterfly
September 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky 👁️🌭👁️
Photo of a conch, googly eyes, tubular mouth, floppy tentacles on a pebbly aquarium bottom
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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🎉
A chonky leech sketch with tiny grin in its small suck hole, wiggling a bit, wonky speech bubble “HOORAY FOR PARASITISM!”
September 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Got an upgrade! 🍆
Long dark purple leg cast for a broken ankle, normal leg hanging out next to the stiff, crutches laying off to the side
September 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Reminder! I have some spoopy pet sketch commission slots open! #art #BlueskyNightMarket #ArtistAlley #corgi

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Mister cat sketch. Round, fluffy, purple, big toothy grin, large green eyes, lots of stubby legs, and horn/spines Bat parrots sketch, two parrots with bat wings and large bat ears perched on a branch Portrait sketch of a Spock corgi, wearing original series style science officer shirt, giving the Vulcan salute, one eyebrow raised, Spock hair
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A little @scalzi.com Saja void kitten fanart to get back into things.
Illustration of a black kitten with one white whisker and squinty yellow orange eyes, circle background in dark dusty red and gold
September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Good morning #RoseCityComicCon! Last day! As part of the virtual #RCCC #ArtistAlley, I have spoopy pet commissions open until Halloween or the slots are filled.
A monster kitty, very round, lots of teeth and small stubby legs, large grin and eyes, spines and horns. Caption “spoopy pet sketch (rose city comic con 2025 virtual commission) from $40”
September 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Good Morning #RoseCityComicCon! Hope everyone has a fab time this Saturday! Here's my Moby D. #RCCC #Pinpalooza pin (was pulled from the official list because I was moved to the virtual #ArtistAlley 😞). I also have stickers!
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15% off w/code RCCC25ARR
Moby Dick hard enamel pin on the offical Rose City Comic Con Pinpalooza backer card (a pirate treasure map with dotted lines leading to the pin "treasure" and rosette compass, Pinpalooza and RCCC logos). Pin is a large white whale with a mischievous grin, pink eye, jumping out of the sea towards a tiny ye olde whaling boat based on the Pequod, little fish and bird silhouettes in sea and sky, splashing around the whale, some scuffs on whale head, little whale fins out like "heck yeah, gonna smash me some whalers!" Sticker version of the pin. Sticker is a large white whale with a mischievous grin, pink eye, jumping out of the sea towards a tiny ye olde whaling boat based on the Pequod, little fish and bird silhouettes in sea and sky, splashing around the whale, some scuffs on whale head, little whale fins out like "heck yeah, gonna smash me some whalers!" Sticker is about 3” x 2.75”. Sticker sitting on a background of misc. skulls. 💀 Close up of the Moby pin on a barnacle and rock backdrop. Pin is a large white whale with a mischievous grin, pink eye, jumping out of the sea towards a tiny ye olde whaling boat based on the Pequod, little fish and bird silhouettes in sea and sky, splashing around the whale, some scuffs on whale head, little whale fins out like "heck yeah, gonna smash me some whalers!"
September 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Even though I'm not at #RCCC #RoseCityComicCon this year due to a broken ankle, I have weekend goodies up in my shop for RCCC's virtual AA! Pet sketch commissions! Pinpalooza pins! New stickers and prints! 15% off w/code RCCC25ARR
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#BlueSkyNightMarket #Art #ArtistAlley
Screenshot of my online shop featuring Spoopy pet sketch commissions, Pallas' cat sticker, Moby Dick pin/sticker, Team Orca sticker, flapjack octopus pin/sticker
September 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Still bummed about missing RCCC, but at least my giant air plant decided to bloom. 🥰
Large peachy green airplant sitting in glass bottle, three straw-like dark purple blossoms with yellow stamens poking out the top. Some sprigs of Spanish moss and a few other air plants hanging out amongst its leaves.
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The new pavilion at the Seattle Aquarium is real nice.
Large aquarium filled with tropical fish and coral, silhouettes of people admiring the view Wode view of large tropical ocean aquarium with big bowl shaped coral in the foreground, a fish eyes the camera, aquarium is very big and a dome part can be seen as a big bubble in the middle Another view of the large aquarium, a wide variety of coral and colorful fish
August 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Digging through some aquarium photos from earlier this month. 🦑🦀🐟
Big hermit crab smushed up against the aquarium glass. Large cute black eyes looking at camera. Red and white like a candy cane. Do not lick, tho. Different large hermit crab. This one has yellow eyes with a dubious expression. Yellow accents, small bluish spiky spots, dark red highlights. An anemone is squiggly in the background. Pacific spiny lumpsucker, a blorb of a smol fish with large eyes, suctioned to the glass with its fancy bottom fins, mouth slightly open Salmon fry swimming in a small circulating tank, everyone facing the same direction except one. Dang it Sam, you’re going the wrong way. Get with the program.
August 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I have a new pin design I made for the Pinpalooza part of the show (and other new art) which I will try to get up to my shop soon. Here is a preview!
Moby Dick pin! I will also make a sticker of this design.
Square enamel pin with a large white whale bursting out of the water sea and the pin frame with a pink eye and devilish grin/expression looking at a ye olde tiny boat in the style of the Pequod (whaling ship) about to do a good whale smash. Tiny fish silhouettes in the water and bird silhouettes in the sky.
August 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM