shane tolentino 🚀🌱💫

An illustration of Alexei Leonov's spacewalk. A person in a white spacesuit with red details floats above their spaceship which is blue with bright white highlights. Around them floats a tether cable and the vastness of space is seen in the background

Me when I exit my tube to be in the void of space 🧑‍🚀 Alexei Leonov was a Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to do a spacewalk. Except from Big Moments in Space by Collins Big Cat (HarperCollins UK) published earlier this year!

#sketch for your saturday of a veryyyy little guy 🐧

And don't even get me started about the pale blue dot. If I think too much about Carl Sagan talking about that photo, I will start crying

Working on my book about Voyager is a combination of "Yay! Yippee! I'm working on a book!" but then also feeling very deeply emo about space. I love it

chaotic #sketch for your saturday while i peck out some stars ✨

shane looking at some beautiful hand-painted letters outside a coffee shop in kansas city

red bellied woodpecker on a tree

partially knit Cloud Sweater in some off white acrylic yarn

two monstera plants facing a window

Talked to some undergrads recently and found myself very thankful and fortunate to have time to spend on hobbies now. When I’m not at my desk, here’s what I might be up to:

Small green insect (lacewing) sitting on top of a leaf among other leaves

Group of insects on a pink background- mealy bug destroyers, predatory mites, golden chalcid predatory wasps, lacewing

Jamaican iguana laying on top of a log surrounded by foliage

Dealing with gnats in my indoor plants made me think of my illustrations of beneficial predator insects for the zoo 🪲

aw this is my local yarn store!!! :’))) i love this so much, I can’t wait to get this as a print!!!

yes!! i’ve got a converter for the ink inside too hehe

candle illustrations inside of a sketchbook done in black ink. a green fountain pen sits in the sketchbook gutter

#sketch for your saturday!! 🕯️

lil study of a still life painting by Severin Roesen
#digitalart

Page from a manuscript with ornamentation and decorative borders.

Page from an Arabic script manuscript with diagonally oriented text and decorative borders.

Page from a manuscript with a painted illustration.

Page from an Arabic script manuscript with diagonally oriented text and decorative borders.

Yusuf and Zulaikha (يوسف وزليخة), unknown scribe, 1880–1910, Kashmir.
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This Muslim story was adapted in Persian by Jami in the 15th century. See the full illuminated manuscript in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...
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#Persian #Quran #YusufAndZulaikha #Calligraphy #Nastaliq

thank you!!! she’s actually a little more saturated irl. this is lion brand wool ease in forest green heather :))

photo of several knitting items on a red chair. starting at 11 going clockwise, a set of bamboo knitting needles. a pack of gold stitch markers. a gauge swatch knit in stockinette. a knit sweater project on circular needles. the sweater is being knit top down (collar first). the collar is k1p1 ribbing folded over and the body is stockinette. the green yarn being used to knit the sweater.

we have graduated from knitting socks to knitting a sweater!!

watercolor of 3 geese walking into a library. text above reads "okay ladies now let's get information"

yes girls!!!

colored pencil drawing of a baby king crab in a sketchbook. there are half bits of other drawings in ink and pencil around the crab

thinking abt that baby king crab

Did you know that the USPS delivers 44% of the world's mail and is a critical part of our infrastructure? #weloveusps

photo of a project in procreate showing black lineart on a white background. the illustration on the screen shows two birds in the foreground, lots of foliage in the mid ground, and a person with binoculars looking up at the birds in the background. there is a panel cut off to the left showing the colors that might be used in the piece and the layers panel is open to the right showing the white background color layer selected.

photo of a project in procreate showing black lineart on a white background. it’s a simple arc in the bottom right corner. there is a faint guide showing borders in a light red color. the layers panel is open to the right showing which group of layers is currently selected.

sometimes the lineart is complex. and sometimes it’s just not!

Happening now: hundreds have gathered in Chicago's La Villita neighborhood this afternoon in freezing rain for a rally and march in support of immigrants.

Chicago Area Gardening Friends! I’m hosting a seed exchange in two weeks at the public library in my neighborhood 🌻 I’ve wanted to do this for a few years, I would love to see y’all and share in the gardening joy!

More info on the poster below, I hope to see you there, and please bring friends!

hand holding tombow n95 marker with a sketchbook underneath. there is the beginnings of a light sketch of a room interior

she’s dying but she’s already so pale in color, it might be time for a new one 🫡

big asterisk please know that i’m talking about Cats (1998) and not Cats (2019)

i did mine a day late because i can’t live life while drawing every hour 🫡 i wanna see yours tho, i think you should do it anyway hehe!!

a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the first panel shows me running for the 80 bus. the second panel shows my phone with the cats soundtrack on it and a reusable baggu bag with something inside. the bottom panel shows rosie and i sitting on our couch in the living room. the text says “my app said the 80 was coming in 20 minutes but there was one right there! I ran after it and kept listening to Cats lol. I brought Rosie tiramisu and we yapped before I went to bed :)”

and that’s a wrap!! see you next year :))

10/10

a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the panel shows me, jen, steph, and sol at a bar yapping. the text reads “5-7pm - we got a delicious Italian dinner to celebrate Sol and Jen’s birthday last week. I’m glad we got there early because it was packed for restaurant week!”

9/x

a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the top right panel shows a bag of sunflower seeds. the bottom left panel shows a bowl with sunflower seed shells. the text says “4pm - Sol’s tummy hurt so we walked back to their place before dinner. Sunflower seeds are way too much work for the reward!”

8/x

a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the top panel shows a star garland hanging on the arch of a room. the middle panels show hands knitting, mary wearing a crown, and a hand drawing with an apple pencil on an ipad. the bottom panel show vegetables and ranch. the text says “mary had a very cozy birthday party with delicious little snacks! i worked on my knitting :)”

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a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the panel shows three people walking. from left, jen has medium length hair and a long coat, pants, boots, and a backpack. sol is wearing a cap, has their hair in braids, a long trench coat, and a tote bag. i’m next to sol. we are walking in front of the irving park train stop. the text reads “12pm - met up with sol and jen at Backlot to walk over to Mary’s together”

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a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the top panel shows me waiting on the train platform. there’s a 95th bound train in front of me. by my head it says “jellicle songs for jellicle cats” with music notes around it. the bottom panel shows me sitting on the bus looking at my phone. the text reads “i take the train to a bus. I almost miss my stop both times. I love public transportation and feel grateful to live in a place that has a working system. It still takes me 50 minutes though”

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a comic for hourly comics day. the text is white on an ochre yellow background. the first panel shows a bottle of hidden valley ranch, the second panel shows my outfit of the day which is a black longsleeve button down shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap, and the third panel shows a clear plastic box with snack veggies in it. the bottom panel shows me walking in the cold. i’m walking in front of a black iron fence with the train in the distance. i’m wearing a puffy jacket, headphones, and my backpack. my hands are in my jacket pockets and steam rises from my mouth. the text reads “it takes too much energy to leave the house. I queue up the Cats soundtrack and tell myself I’m a Jellicle cat on the way to the Heavyside Lair. I stop by Jewel for a party snack and walk to the train. It’s cold but not too cold.”

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