Weevils Wobble

I prescribe you one roll around in the dirt. Come, take my hand — — —

[hearnoweevil]

Your whale illustrations are so special to me! I have recently moved halfway across the world, and I bought the prints of your whale art to hang up in my new room. They remind me that my home is in my bones. Thank you <3

Awwwggg how fitting to take them with you to a new home. So happy you have this story to travel with you as you go <3

I hope your time spent far away is very worthwhile for you — that you make lots of new connections and discover so many new things to love.

[hearnoweevil]

someone on tiktok reposted ur whale art w/o credit :/ user @ tumbling.on

Ahhh thanks for letting me know. I’m not on tiktok so I can’t even go bother em about it alas (worth the price of staying away from that app tho)

A repost of my whale comic went viral on Instagram (with credit) and because of that credit to my art account over on Instagram, I actually got a lot of traffic to my inprnt. So the simple act of attaching credit to posts does amount to real, big things for us artists haha. (we know this)

All I can ask is for people who see reposts of my work to comment “Hey I found the artist! It’s @hearnoweevil on tumblr and insta!! :)” and hope that gets credit added to the post.

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate a couple little Tumblr stories for class. This one's by @appropriate-as-always

Original post under the cut

Autumn is here, folks, and your local Iowan is here to remind you of the basic principles of Corn Maze Safety: Make sure you go with a part

[hearnoweevil]

do you sell prints? i love your weevil infographic!!!

Answering over two years late because at the time I wasn't selling prints. But!!! I am now!!

It's up on my inprint! The bottom map isn't included due to ratio limitations, but the gang's all there

[hearnoweevil]

Those illustrations you put onto the post about the whale and the forest are simply lovely. Absolutely gorgeous. Hope you have a great day!

Thank you so much! I’m so happy they’re resonating with people, it’s such a wonderful story

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story by @bees-with-swords I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

Post by @bees-with-swords

💬 71  🔁 55337  ❤️ 60344 · "Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna. "No." Says the tuna, "Do you?" "I have never seen it." Say

[hearnoweevil]

@catching-fire-in-the-wind This is actually all done traditionally with the exception of the text!

I’ve been playing around with bringing my digital and traditional styles closer together though, and that’s been a fun process. If you enjoy the watercolour texture one of the best things you can do is play around with putting a bunch of watercolour down on a page and scanning it!! It works well as backgrounds, borders, overlays, etc.

This piece was done with watercolour, gouache, posca, and pencil crayon :)))

[hearnoweevil]

Nurturing the misunderstood self

[hearnoweevil]

[hearnoweevil]

It’s a froggy frog world out there

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story by @bees-with-swords I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

Image ID under the cut

[id: a series of five watercolor and guache paintings with digital text added to each one. the paintings depict the conversation between the whale, the tuna, and the salmon from the story in the post.

the first painting shows a humpback whale swimming with a bluefin tuna as they talk, with a skeleton of a whale in a small panel above them. the skeleton is labeled to note the skull, ribcage, spine, pelvis, and other major structures. "Do you ever dream of land?" the whale asks the tuna. "No." says the tuna, "Do you?" "I have never seen it." says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it." "Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it?"

the second painting shows the humpback and the tuna from a different angle, the faint impression of trees surrounding them in the water. the humpback has a series of skeletons extending behind it, each showing a progressively older evolutionary ancestor and showing the change from land animal to ocean animal. it also notes the whale's own small but still present pelvis and femur bones. "There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." says the whale. "They will disappear." says the tuna. "One day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

the third painting shows a whale skeleton at the bottom of the ocean being picked at by scavengers. a small panel below the skeleton shows the salmon joining the conversation. "Maybe I don't want to forget," says the whale. "The forests were once my home." "I have seen the forests." whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

the fourth painting shows the progression of a salmon growing from egg to adulthood as it swims downstream, with panels showing the eye of the whale and the salmon looking at one another. "Tell me what you have seen," says the whale. "The forests spawned me." says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

the fifth and final painting shows the whale, the tuna, and the salmon from below, backlit by filtering sunlight and surrounded by other silhouettes of fish. in the foreground are tiny, microscopic plants labeled "proterocladus antiquus, oldest land plant ancestor, alive one billion years ago." "Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own." "You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

/end id.]

(Thank you @saffronlesbian for the beautifully descriptive id)

Post by @bees-with-swords

💬 71  🔁 55337  ❤️ 60344 · "Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna. "No." Says the tuna, "Do you?" "I have never seen it." Say

[hearnoweevil]

Autumn forest cafe (zoom in for detail)

[hearnoweevil]

.🤚👁🖐.

[hearnoweevil]

3 postcards venting my frustrations about living in a car centric dull suburban city.

Image and text ID under the cut

[Text ID:

Postcard 1: There is something very sinister about the emptiness of suburbia. It is defined by a lack of everything. No trees, no buildings, no people.

Postcard 2: Flat emotionless concrete, stretched out for miles. You do not see the people hidden in their private carriages, protected in palaces so fortified they might as well not exist.

Postcard 3: To fight isolation, they suggest stepping outside. But you find nothing.]

[Image ID: A set of 3 postcards, with an illustration on the front and writing on the back of each.

The first image is of a yellow surrealist landscape with distorted traffic lights throughout, and a winding path that leads to a blue city in the distance. There is a simplified figure facing towards the city.

The second image is a blue city street with liquified distorted buildings, leading towards an orange glow in the distance. The figure is facing towards the horizon.

The third is an orange desert landscape with a large tree in the foreground and the character resting on it.]

[hearnoweevil]

Comparative Anatomy Study

[hearnoweevil]

[the-greatest-being]

WHY DOESN'T CANADA HAVE WEEVILS

[hearnoweevil]

A good portion of the green is in Canada actually. Canada definitely has weevils. Here’s a friend I met last month, in Canada, where I live

[hearnoweevil]

So last summer I got lost camping by not reading any signs

[hearnoweevil]

For the record, my experience is that people in NZ love finding maps without New Zealand. It delights them. It's just funny that they also have a very long weevil

That is so funny I love that