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アキラ・アガルカール・山田お誕生日おめでとうございます🪿
#つり球 #tsuritama

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Pen on paper towel drawing of Garurumon with a few other doodles of Gabumon and other digimon

Work gabus #digimon

【怪鳥30羽お絵描きチャレンジ】
古代中国の地理書『山海経』に登場する奇怪な鳥を30羽描こうぜ！　というイラストお題を公開しました。当時の挿絵は現存していないので、原典の文章だけを頼りに想像して怪鳥を描いてみようという企画です。1ヶ月毎日描いても、描ける時に描いてもOK。
詳細はこちら！🔗 hatoking.com/journal/7149...
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds

山海経の怪鳥30羽描く | Hato King 古代中国の地理書『山海経』に登場する奇怪な鳥たちを描いてみようチャレンジ！ 次から次へとヘンな鳥獣が登場する山

【山海経 怪鳥チャレンジ】山海経の難読漢字に対応しているフォント情報を告知ブログに追加しました。おそらくスマホで表示できないのは4.ヘツフ、12.タクヒの2羽？ hatoking.com/journal/7149...
#山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds

fyi images of Shanhai jing available today were drawn in the 16-17th century. Here is a fun fact, some of them are far different from the original description. This is 2. Qu-ru (a duck with a human face), but it’s obviously a pheasant with a bird face. So it’s ok to ignore some prompt text imo.

Start the challenge anytime. You don’t have to draw every day for a month. It’s fine to draw just a few of them. (Needless to say, don’t use Gen AI)
Here are examples: 4. Shang-fu (a three-headed, three-winged, six-legged chicken) and 28. Chu-niao (a six-headed blue bird) #30WeirdAncientBirds

🐓Weird Ancient Birds Art Challenge
Draw mythical birds with your imagination! An ancient mythic geographic compilation, Shanhai jing is full of weird birds. Its illustrations were lost long ago. Why don’t we imagine them from the descriptions in the text? Here is the prompt list
#30WeirdAncientBirds

2/8 In birds, it seems natural to order numbers from smallest to largest in a line from left to right, something that was believed to be cultural and specific to humans, but which turns out to have deep roots in nature.

(paper, 2020) elifesciences.org/articles/54662

If there were ten of me—
maybe this endless work would have taken shape a little sooner.

#crochet
#crochetart
#fiberart
#crochetartist
#crochetdesign
#kitkat

This looks amazing! 凄い！

New poster for "Dorohedoro" Season 2.
Coming Spring 2026.

Yeah! I just threw them in a cast iron with some oil so they didn't stick + sprinkled on a bit of salt at the end. I think because they eat acorns (which are delicious), they come out tastier than, say, crickets or mealworms.

Too bad acorn weevil larva are difficult to harvest in bulk...!

portion of the scroll featuring the cassowary illustration (single adult specimen, standing side profile)

For #WorldCassowaryDay:
Double-wattled #Cassowary recorded in Illustrated Scroll of Birds (Chōrui zukan) Vol.1, Meiji Japan late 19th c. Native to New Guinea/NE Australia/Aru Islands, first imported by Dutch traders in 1646.
Harvard Art Museums 1985.721.1: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

#preDV, a pitch practice event before #DVpit, is happening this MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29!
If you're a Diverse Author/Artist looking to get agented & traditionally published, please join us! We're hoping to create a fun creative community here!
#WriterSky #BookSky #writingcommunity

It was like the crispy part of fried chicken! But the good savory crispy parts, not the flavorless savory parts.

worm-bitten white oak acorns

perfectly smooth chestnut oak acorns, and pretty powdered red oak acorns

The Chestnut Oak and Red Oak acorns are so pretty compared to the White Oak ones, but they're also so bitter... I guess there's a reason all the critters are eating the White Oak acorns

a whige pomeranian lying on the couch with leggies up

weird looking

whole acorns from a red oak sitting in a colander. two buckets of brown acorn water sitting on a counter. they're labeled with the date they're harvested.

photo of acorn jelly. there's acorn wafer in the background.

a few acorn weevil larva frying in a pan. there are broken acorns next to it.

More foraging adventures - the white oak near me was masting, so I picked some acorns and made acorn jelly.

Also, did you know that acorn weevil larva is delicious???

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Just one more day to apply to work with our rockstar editorial team at BOOM!

We’re looking for an awesome assistant editor who is great at balancing multiple projects and cares about good storytelling!

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#comicjobs

white ghost pipe growing out of the ground. it's mottled with black spots because of bug bites.

first time seeing a ghost pipe!!! the bug bites give it a cool look

photo of a fat white/pale brown shelf mushroom growing out of a tree

photo of the underside of a fat white/pale brown shelf mushroom growing out of a birch tree. it has no gills.

photo of the undersides of several a white shelf mushroom growing out of a birch tree. they look smooth.

immature birch polypore, maybe

#mycology

the worm crawled away while I was drawing it...

A drawing of Cregennan featuring a mountain and a lake in pen and watercolour

Went up to Cregennan in Eryri, North Wales, yesterday. Here’s a drawing. Pen and watercolour.

banded tussock moth caterpillar. it's brown and extremely fuzzy.

hickory tussock moth caterpillar. it's white with a black stripe and extremely fuzzy.

some non-grabbable friends I saw in the wilds (banded tussock moth and hickory tussock moth caterpillars)

#invertebrates #bugs #caterpillar

a brown grasshopper held between my fingers. background is some kale growing in a garden

haha grabbed

#invertebrates #bugs

screenshot of gundam from the salt episode. text says "now we can get our salt!"