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Mike Costelloe

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Maker of visual stuff https://costelloecreative.com https://mikecostelloe.com

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Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

19.05.2025 15:08 — 👍 96    🔁 48    💬 7    📌 3
Ink brush drawing of people in late 19th-century dress waiting on a train platform

Ink brush drawing of people in late 19th-century dress waiting on a train platform

Quite like this little bit #ink #drawing #process

04.12.2024 09:12 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A young child in a stroller with looks toward implied fireworks out of frame, the scene lit starkly bluish

A young child in a stroller with looks toward implied fireworks out of frame, the scene lit starkly bluish

Drawing from around the Fourth of July, my son quite helpfully providing the reference material

19.11.2024 10:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ink drawing of a kid doing a cannonball into a pool in front of a "no cannonballs" sign, with an angry lifeguard, a bus, and some kids cheering him on in the background

Ink drawing of a kid doing a cannonball into a pool in front of a "no cannonballs" sign, with an angry lifeguard, a bus, and some kids cheering him on in the background

Man has his raked leafpile demolished right in front of him by some kids, as a bus drives by in the background

Man has his raked leafpile demolished right in front of him by some kids, as a bus drives by in the background

Sometimes the bus has been a background element...

15.11.2024 08:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An ink drawing with flat digital color of a big yellow bus balloon floating over Central Park West

An ink drawing with flat digital color of a big yellow bus balloon floating over Central Park West

Thanksgiving is coming up. 🦃 Parade bus? ✅ #illustration #ink

14.11.2024 09:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A ink brush drawing of an orange bus driving past a field of spring wildflowers

A ink brush drawing of an orange bus driving past a field of spring wildflowers

I've drawn a lot of buses for Boxcar transit over the last two years, here are some of them: 🚌🧵

14.11.2024 08:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Your entire business is nothing but stealing other people's shit, how about every penny in your valuation gets confiscated and returned to the people you stole from, your whole work product gets degaussed, and you go get a job

15.06.2024 14:37 — 👍 109    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0
A zombie in running clothes moving toward the viewer

A zombie in running clothes moving toward the viewer

An older drawing from a couple of years ago, for an article about a zombie-themed running app. #illustration #ink #drawing #zombie #running

04.06.2024 12:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
pencil underdrawing of two trains meeting where the rails meet

pencil underdrawing of two trains meeting where the rails meet

inked drawing of two trains meeting where the rails meet

inked drawing of two trains meeting where the rails meet

final colored illustration of two trains meeting at the golden spike

final colored illustration of two trains meeting at the golden spike

Recent #illustration work to mark the anniversary of the completion of the first American transcontinental railroad, finished with a golden spike in Promontory, Utah on May 10th, 1869. Pencils/ink brush/digital color. #process #ink #art

03.06.2024 10:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favorite works from 2023, gouache and digital

24.12.2023 14:27 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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