creature enthusiast

Graphi | They/it | 20s | Lesbian | Commissions open | my OC art blog is @wanderingokali

[graphi-horse-time]

People have been getting too comfortable hating wasps on my blog. So as a certified Wauce Lover, here is my personal WAUCE BLAST made with exclusively photos i've taken myself. by getting extremely close to wasps. fuck you if you dont like wasps theyre my faves my besties

If you say you hate wasps we have beef bc that means you hate all of these when theyve been nothing but good, nice models for photos and the worst thing theyve ever done to me was fly away before they were in focus properly. You can literally befriend social wasps bc they recognize human faces. theyre beautiful theyre smart theyre amazing and theyre an extremely diverse group of animals. WAUCE FOREVERRRR

[symbolone]

this has been a wasp psa

[creatingblackcharacters]

It really is hilarious because whenever you start your art journey, you watch all the videos and ask artists and they all give tips and help but it all ends up coming down to "you just have to practice".

And it pisses you off because bruh how am I supposed to practice this shit if I can't even do this first couple of fucking lines to make a good cylinder.

And then you start drawing and it sucks and you keep doing it, and you learn new skills and tricks, and you even end up developing an art style naturally (which they told you you would do, and you didn't believe them, but it came free with the constantly drawing in a way that made you comfortable and learning the medium).

And at the end of it all, someone else asks wow how you did all of that, and after all this time of putting in effort you finally have to eat crow and admit that the answer is... Damn... you really have to practice 🤣🤣🤣

[creatingblackcharacters]

I'm sorry guys, I hated it too, but it's true. You gotta study other artists. You gotta study your craft. It doesn't have to be boring sit down for thirty minutes a day, but at some point you GOTTA LOOK at other people's stuff to learn! 99% of us are just not the magical art genius that looks at a body once and just Gets It! The rest of us peons gotta use references!

[onenicebugperday]

Yellow leatherleaf slug, Vaginulus taunaisii, Veronicellidae

Photographed in Brazil by rogerriodias

[melonflavored]

This makes me laugh so hard every time

[kitchen1]

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

[graphi-horse-time]

another one

(the website i used to do the cover didnt let me download in full quality so im putting the art by itself under the cut)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :

Knotted Rattlesnake

Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE

Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 29.2

“Compact and smoothly polished, this rattlesnake displays typical Aztec sculptural techniques. Both the musculature of this snake's body and its head have been sculpted in great detail. The eyes were probably once inlaid, and ferocious fangs descend from the snake's upper jaw. Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”

[misti-step]

project hail mary is a movie about circles.

watch on youtube

[wild-e-eep]

I think this is Pilobolus kleinii, one of the dung cannon fungi AKA hat throwers.

This fungus grows on dung. Its strategy for colonising new piles of dung is to have its spores be eaten by a herbivore, pass through the animal's gut and end up in a freshly deposited stool.

To this end, these sticky black sporangia are propelled clear of the dung pile by the explosive force of the turgid swelling beneath them bursting. Each has a chance of landing on some palatable grass away from the faeces, where they can be ingested.

iNaturalist observation 372222208

[anxietyproblem]

[graphi-horse-time]

grace's outfit from chapter 18 of my fanfic :)

[herpsandbirds]

Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae), family Zygaenidae, Spain

Diurnal moth.

photograph by Francisco Javier Guerra Hernando

[u3pxx]

ok i suddenly had a thought and got curious

visual artists: when you have an idea for something, does it appear in your mind as the finished product, the steps you'll have to take, a sentence, or something else?

finished thing (i saw an image of an apple in my head so that's what i'll draw)

steps (if i draw an apple, i'll draw a circle as a guide first, then...)

sentence (i should draw an apple being picked from a tree)

a combination of these (tell me in the tags!!)

something else (also tell me in the tags!!!!)

not a visual artist, just curious.

Voting ended onJun 16

i have aphantasia (i can't see images in my brain) so i just like hearing how other people visualize ideas LOL also hopefully the examples i wrote make sense it's kind of hard to put into words but ehhhh

[princeofthegrasslands]

May i present to you

Diatoms

And an intruder there in the corner

[stupidestasshole]

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

[okapiaconcolor]

By hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland - Short-toed treecreeper, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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