Miss Crunchy

Did you know that too much paint applied to a dress acts like starch? Art blog -> automateer.tumblr.com Fandom blog -> ottomateer.tumblr.com

[draconym]

Reviving a 30 year old idea with my childhood friend: the humble sporkion

[draconym]

Wait.

There. That's perfect. I'm keeping him in a terrarium and feeding him jello.

[randomencounters]

Encounter: Sporkion

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm not going to edit this photo. you can have it raw

[misscrunchy]

I like raw Belphegor

[lichenaday]

Cladonia imperialis

I hate Ernst Haeckel with the deepest loathing, he was a terrible human being. He is famous for this and other historical lichen illustrations:

And you may recognize C. imperialis from the left-most figure. When I first saw this drawing, I noticed that he has taken some artistic liberties with some of the species I recognized. And I had wondered for years looking at his illustration how much creative liberty he took when drawing that guy on the left, since I hadn't ever seen it. But credit where credit is due, it looks pretty darn similar to the pictures and preserved specimens pictured here. SO terrible person, descent artist, I can give him that. Still hate him, though. This fruticose lichen has verticillate (arranged in whorls) podetia with spreading to recurved scyphi (cup- or goblet-shaped projections on the podetial stalks) proliferating from the center of lower scyphi in 8-17 tiers, up to 31 cm tall (likely the tallest terrestrial lichen in the world!). It is green-brown to brown in color with a darker, melanotic base and smooth surface. C. imperialis is native to the mountains of southern Brazil, and grows taller in higher-elevations regions.

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[sheydgarden]

The Winter Maw, 2026

a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for the annual "Winter Exquisite" gallery show (this year's chosen medium was puppetry) at the Forbes Library in Northampton, MA - if you're local, you can visit anytime between the 7th & the end of the month!

for the winter theme, i designed a monster that blends my appreciation of this season's beauty with a more sinister, predatory element representing struggles against seasonal depression. bringing her to life was a huge learning experience & i got to try out a lot of new materials/techniques - i'd never made a marionette before! she took me all January but i'm very pleased with the result.

[oddarette]

I went ahead and my iridescent vinyl stickers of some of my favorite environment illustrations. If you wanna buy one you can find them in my shop >Here< Thanks!!

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Metahuman with super healing powers whose entire job is that once a week they go to a nearby hospital and are put into a medically induced coma for 24 hours while all their organs and blood are harvested, and kept there until they've healed up again.

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Every so often the Heroes council will release an official report to the public, and there'll be another bunch of news articles wondering how some unknown super calling themselves 'Meat Factory' somehow consistently holds the record for most lives saved across the city.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

It is essential to my vision that they are not at all sanctimonious about this.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.

Part of their employment contract is that they get served the same post-operation vanilla ice cream that they normally hand out on the childrens' ward. Also a sticker. Their overnight bag is covered in stickers.

[shinyhappygoth]

Okay, Meat Factory is awesome and hilarious, but if they're being harvested for and regenerating absolutely everything, may I suggest an alternative super name: Theseus.

[notparallax]

@entities-of-posts The Flesh?

[entities-of-posts]

Seconded

[ex0skeletal]

Happy Pride Month! Here is a depiction of me celebrating:

[ex0skeletal]

It’s that time again! Happy Pride Month! Here’s a depiction of me celebrating:

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Bi Visibility Day! Here’s a depiction of me celebrating:

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2020! Still celebrating

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Pride Month! Still extremely bi and having a great time!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Pride 2022!! I become more bisexual and powerful with each passing year!!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Pride 2023! Still celebrating being a big ol’ queer!

(You can buy this shirt here from a queer-owned business btw)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy Pride 2024! More bisexual than ever!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Celebrating pride 2025 despite all this fucking bullshit! We are not going away!!!

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Happy pride 2026!!! I’m so fucking sleepy!!!! And still incredibly bisexual

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

I must confess that reluctance to use art supplies is still a thing I have trouble with sometimes. I have some books I made in bookbinding class in college that are still empty after 8 years, and I can't remember how long it's been since I've touched any of my nice watercolour paper.

But I'm trying to be better at putting scribbly crap in my new pretty teal 5 dollar sketchbook, and am succeeding so far! I've just filled a page with scratchy awful dandelions and I'm not going to show them to you!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Update: I have done a second page of dandelion doodles and you can't see those ones either. Heeheehoohoo.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Update: 3 pages of dandelions. Still not posting them, for the same reason theatres don't sell tickets to rehearsals and television stations don't air the first script reads! it's not what they're for!!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Page 4 now, and this dandelion is so much nicer! So I am posting it. It's an art nouveau dandelion because I was looking at a lot of art nouveau embroideries on pinterest yesterday.

The crucial thing is that this dandelion owes its niceness entirely to the mess on the preceding 3 pages.

(Normally I keep this blog strictly for silly dinosaurs, and post all my other work on @vincentbriggs, but this time it's directly related to the use-the-sketchbook dinosaur from a couple days ago.)

Alright it's almost 1pm, goodnight!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Friend wants to embroider the dandelion onto a cushion, so I made a border to go with it!

Edit: Here's the outline layer in case anyone else wants to embroider it.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Update: Turns out you CAN now see the scribbly dandelions, and the whole rest of the sketchbook, but only if you pay 3 Canadian dollars to see the patreon video I made going through the whole sketchbook.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you've been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page? Anything will do, like a smudge of graphite or a blob of ink, or perhaps a very scribbly dinosaur. Just put something there. Please, or the dinosaur will be sad.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

[bioluminescent-fungus]

I was SO SAD for this dinosaur that I grabbed the nearest notebook (a calendar) and drew a little sailing ship for him

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

oh thank goodness!

[yourheartinyourmouth]

IT’S OKAY IF YOU MESS IT UP

SKETCHBOOKS ARE FOR MESSING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

THEY ARE!!!! It's right in the name! Like @sleepnoises said a while ago, they're for the quick putdowning of ideas! to catch the stuff that comes out of your brain! (I don't mean to say that pretty sketchbook pages are bad, but it's important for your health to do quick scribbly stuff too. if not in a book then perhaps on small scraps of paper)

The dinosaur is very glad to see so many doodles in the notes! Also lots of comments with very good suggestions for people who have a hard time starting, like starting on the second page, just signing & dating it, numbering the pages, or using the first page to put samples of all your usual pencils and pens and such.

Here's how I started my new sketchbook, which I got for 5 dollars at Dollarama. I would have drawn on that first blank page instead of just signing it, but it was partially glued to the endpaper and wouldn't lie flat.

(Also, since the sketches are about making velvet mites with little wired legs, I must mention that if/when I get around to doing that it'll be posted on @vincentbriggs where all my non-dinosaur arts go.)

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

ok here is the mite, finally finished! More pics on my other blog.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

oh gosh did I forget to update you on the mite? I made another one and filmed it a few months ago.

[pseudomantis]

What the fuck

[astarlingdiscovery]

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

[x] [x]

[bogleech]

Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.

[ceanothusspinosus]

foot to head ratio off the charts

[mollyvega]

This celestial cicada is Jadzia✨

[ministarfruit]

I love this text post so I drew it

[vincentbriggs]

Some footage from the leaf waistcoat video. (Music is Les Feuilles Jaunes by Franz Gordon from EpidemicSound)

[iris-of-the-lambs]

doodled some manticores... i meant to make them properly monstrous and scary but idk I think they're kinda cute now

[iris-of-the-lambs]

doodled the babies so it's solidly in cute territory now. let's kill and eat a human with mama etc

[wholesome-animal-images]

[a-book-of-creatures]

SPROING

[westformiles]

@onenicebugperday

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[miikrowelle]

many ghost and hornet doodles :] and artstyle test too..

slight remake of this from 2023;

[creatures-in-posts]

Creatures spotted!