#drowsy draws

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Finally getting around to sharing the painting I did for my grad cap!

My major is not even a little bit related to bugs but I thought rubber ducky isopods would be such a fun choice and they’d be so easy to stylize into my schools colors (yellow and blue) so I went with it.

[image ID: a stylized painting of two rubber ducky isopods done on a graduation cap. The background is a deep blue-green and the isopods are bright yellow and blue, with light yellow legs and an antennae. They are both wearing black graduation caps with yellow and blue tassels, and are holding small rolled diplomas with blue ribbon around them with their legs. One is positioned at the top of the cap, and is rolled into a ball, facing the viewer at a three quarter angle, the other is stretched out across the bottom of the cap, as if it were walking. Surrounding the upper isopod, there is text in alternating blue and yellow that reads “we balled”, and below the lower isopod is text in mandarin, reading “我们成功了”. End ID]

[drowsycosmos]

Another Usagi pin design.

Thinking of making all the (main) Sailor Scouts...

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Been playing around with some old magazines recently and realized they had a lot of spiders so, obviously I had to make a magnus archives inspired collage. I'm sure no one can guess which statement I chose for the tape...

[kaylakat2]

Happy Valentines Day! Have some sappy husbands as a treat.

If you've been around for a minute you know this is a redraw of a piece I did in 2022, 3 years ago now! Hope you all enjoy, and have a good valentines!

[kaylakat2]

Hi I'm back on my bullshit, drawing these characters that almost no one knows or cares about! (I do tho. I do.)

Rewatched Mune recently and, because of how twiggy Mune is and how weightless he feels in some scenes, was immediately reminded of this popular Brooklyn Nine-Nine quote that I've seen circulate a lot online. If you're familiar with these characters you can try to make a claim that this is not in character, but you'd be wrong. it is. so perfectly it is. So, enjoy :)

[Image ID: a colored illustration of two characters from Mune: Guardian of the moon. One is much taller, holding a harpoon in one hand and the other character in his other. He is orange and brown, with markings all over his body resembling those present in yellow jasper. He has a mohawk of white hair on his head that goes down his back. He is smiling at the other character. The other character is a blue, deer-like creature with large ears and yellow-green eyes. He looks upset and is being held up by his scruff by the other character, body hanging limp. Two text bubbles float around the heads of the characters. They read: Do I even weigh anything to you? and No. It's like holding a couple grapes. End ID]

[kaylakat2]

Hi I've been working on this for 2 months now and only just finished it (at the beginning of this month, and only just got around to posting it). Because taking 4 classes is exceptionally brutal, and it's taking its toll on my brain. Well anyways here's these two! I've titled this one comfort for, obvious reasons.

[Image ID: A colored illustration of two men embracing, both with fond expressions on their faces. One is taller, with brown skin and short curly hair and is wearing a white shirt with a pink heart pattern on it. He has his hands placed on the other mans head and back, holding him close to his chest with his chin resting on his head. The other man has his face pressed into the taller mans chest, with his arms wrapped around his body. He has light skin and light brown hair. They are on a pink background. End ID]

[kaylakat2]

ooooH I just realized I haven't posted any of my mune fanart (made sometime I think in april of 2020, past me never dated these sketchbook pages, whoops!) Looking at them now they're a little wonky and weird looking but hey, I still like them a lot actually! and my colored pencil work always ages well... and I used glitter crayola markers so like, what's not to love here.

btw if you don't know, these are all characters from Mune: guardian of the moon, a french film that I stumbled upon on netflix (so sad it got taken off last year, I miss that specific dub and it is nowhere to be found online) sometime I think in like 2019 or something? Watch it if you enjoy fun character design and and really pretty environments and animation. The story is a little weirdly paced but it's a good time.

Also mune and sahone are in love, glim and mune are together and so are mune and sahone. They all love each other so much I don't care if it's not explicitly stated (for mune and sahone) in canon <3

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Now that I've finally gotten around to finishing my saved for later projects, I would like to share my insect pinning magnum opus. A shadow box full of nearly every insect I've ever worked on!

(Close ups and image descriptions below the keep reading. Image description also includes all speculative ids that are present on the labels you can see in the photos, so if you're curious as to what something is check there!)

I started this when I was still super new at the hobby, so some specimens are better preserved than others, but it's nice to see my improvement with all of them together. It's also nice to see a sort of representation of all the insect life around me with them.

A lot of these are also in rough shape since I scavenge all of my specimens (usually dead or dying), or am given scavenged specimens, and very few of them were raised or captured for the purpose of pinning. I think this definitely adds to the fun of the hobby though, since each one has a pretty unique story about how it was found or acquired.

Most ID's are also still subject to change and some are still speculative, since I do all my own research for them and am definitely not perfect.

[Image ID: One wide shot image of a black board with various insects displayed on it, with small hand written labels next to, above, or below each specimen. 8 images follow as close ups of each group of specimens. The first displays a painted lady butterfly, scientific name cynthia, next to two tomato hornworm moths, scientific name Manduca quinquemaculata, with two june beetle, scientific name cotinis nitida, and ten striped june beetle, scientific name polyphylla decemlineata, underneath. The second displays a white lined sphinx moth, scientific name hyles lineata, next to a nevada buckmoth, scientific name hemileaca nevadensis, and a monarch butterfly, scientific name danaus plexippus. The third displays two clear winged grasshoppers, scientific name camnula pellucida. The fourth displays two california mantis, scientific name stagmomantis californica, one is displayed on its back, the other on its belly. The fifth and sixth display two views of two scorpions, both either yellow ground scorpions, scientific name Paravaejovis confusus, or arizona bark scorpions, scientific name centraroides sculpturatus. The seventh displays a common green darner dragonfly, scientific name anax junius, and a shed dragonfly nymph exoskeleton. The eighth displays the exoskeleton of a giant water bug, scientific name abedus indentatus, next to a digger bee, scientific name anthophora spp, with a yellow faced bumble bee, scientific name bombus vosnesenskii, next to the digger bee. Below these three specimen are two other bee specimen, a western carpenter bee, scientific name xylocopa californica, and a valley carpenter bee, scientific name xylocopa varipunctata, as well as a yellow legged mud dauber wasp, scientific name sceliphron caementarium. End ID]