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January theme: Bugs Among Us

Week 1: Firebrat! (Thermobia Domestica)

A little insect that snuggles into warm cozy spaces and munches on leaf litter, cereals, and book bindings. They have a distinctive long three tail-like appendages!

[lordsovorn]

Firebrat

A scuttly little critter for #InsertAnInvert2024 - supposed to be week 1, but better late than never

This one and three next bugs in pixel-perfect quality are already in early access for my dear members on BuyMeACoffee

[magicmetalblog]

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Parasites week 4: parasitoids

long-tailed giant ichneumonid (megarhyssa macrurus)

[tarantula-wizard]

Insert An Invert Week 2: Stone Centipede (Lithobius forficatus)

I used Wigglypaint

[Image ID: An animated sketch in the form of a GIF, so that it appears to jitter or wiggle. It features the head and part of the body of a Stone Centipede. Its head comes into frame in the top left corner and part of its body is visible along the right side of the piece. It has a pink body, yellow legs, and blue antennae. There is a wavy speckled pattern in the space not taken up by the centipede. End ID.]

[wizardhecker]

Invert week 1: Japanese House Centipede

Tragically I was distracted by my bird art this week to give this the attention it deserved but I still want to keep up with the weeks anyways!

The first time I saw one of these was in undergrad and I was so transfixed by how strange it looked that I chased it down a hallway to get a picture, certain it must be some rare creature. Well. Still special to me!!

[cuttledreams-bugs]

We finally rollin, let the catch-up begin

May: Carcinization

1: True Crab: Lollipop Crab (Ixa cylindrus)

2: False Crab: Symmetrical Hermit Crab (Pylocheles mortensenii)

3: Not Crab: Lake Baikal Amphipod (Acanthogammarus victorii)

4: Three very-not-crabs (Dendrogaster antarctica, Armilifer armillatus, Lernanthropus chrysophrys)

(Rejected Brine Shrimp drawing below the read-more)

Prompt 3 had originally been the brine shrimp, however after a lot of frustration and struggle with the painting, I finally just tossed it at the last minute and replaced it with an entirely new animal prompt.

It was probably for the better, as in my sleep deprivation I laid a very poor foundation for painting + made the inexplicable decision to go with the pink-yellow look to represent the animal instead of the more grounded translucency? It's not bad, but rubs wrong against what I want to do with these.

Behold:

I spent another entire day trying to repaint them as that before finally biting the bullet.

(Another WIP)

I've actually already got 12 more animals painted and ready to share but that still leaves 16 more to fully paint before christmas!

[magicmetalblog]

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Motion: Diver 🤘🦠🪰

grousewinged backswimmer (notonecta undulata)

[lordsovorn]

Garden Symphylan

Week 3 of #InsertAnInvert2024