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saimihanma.bsky.social
Here it is, the complete month of #AugArthroAwe drawings!

#InverteFest #TradArt
August 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
greyauk.bsky.social
Day 2 - (parent) Opabinia
#AugArthroAwe

My first try at arthropod #paleoart

#kleinekunstklasse 🐡
Photo of a watercolour sketchbook Watercolour/ink sketch of Opabina holding pink eggs.
August 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Here's the first week of my #AugArthroAwe drawings, all done with a single pen.

#TradArt
August 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Day 17 of #AugArthroAwe - Callichimaera perplexa

what in the Cretaceous crab nonsense is this anime freak?? @franzanth.bsky.social 👁️🦀👁️

#invertebrates #SciArt
August 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Today I learned that the Fluffy Crab is not only fluffy, but it likes to wear a sponge on its head like a jaunty hat. 🦀 #AugArthroAwe
Ink drawing of a fluffy crab wearing a sponge on its head.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Here's my drawing of the Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, which can grow up to 90 mm (3.5 inches) in length #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
Ink and watercolor drawing of a pill millipede, with a long segmented green body and many legs, standing in a natural background of greens and browns.
August 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Phantom Crane Fly 👻
#AugArthroAwe #SciArt 🪰
A fly illustration with loooooooong legs and fluffy feets, black and white markings, Phantom Crane Fly, Bittacomorpha clavipes
August 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Day 3 of #AugArthroAwe is this chonky beetle.

#TraditionalArt
An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a beetle with a very rotund backside
August 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Today's art prompt for #AugArthroAwe is a tiny beetle called the Black Bladder-bodied Meloid, a sparkly little critter!
Ink and watercolor drawing of a sparkly blue beetle with a very large abdomen.
August 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
gehmflor.bsky.social
Days 10 & 11 of #AugArthroAwe
#ArtPrompt #Jaekelopterus #Prehistoric #Extinct #EuropeanOilBeetle #Arthropod #SciArt #Bugs #InverteFest #Late #TradArt
August 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Devil crab 😈🦀

#AugArthroAwe #SciArt
Crab illustration with lots of red spots and splotches on a dusty blue and creamy lines, legs and face a bit hairy, devil reef crab, zosimus aeneus
August 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Another attempt to draw on bark, this time on the inside. It's bark from a sycamore tree near my house that sheds bark all summer long. Behold the rhombic leatherbug, for #AugArthroAwe 🪲
Photo of a hand holding a piece of bark, on which is drawn an insect with a leaf-like body, six legs and long antenna.
August 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Day 15 of #AugArthroAwe is this snazzy spider.

#TradArt
An open sketchbook with off white paper and an ink illustration of a black and white spider hanging upside down
August 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
gehmflor.bsky.social
Day 9 Bluff Weta

#AugArthroAwe #ArtPrompt #Arthropod #SciArt #Bugs #InverteFest #Late
#BluffWeta #NewZealand #Color #TradArt
August 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
tamvmat.bsky.social
#AugArthroAwe , combined Aug 4 & 5
Devil reef crab and a rhombic leather bug.
#inkdrawing #inverts
A drawing of a crab saying "sup" to a bug
August 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
greyauk.bsky.social
Nr. 6 epimeria rubrieques
#AugArthroAwe

in process ... so many bits
pencil sketch of epimeria rubrieques a very spiky deep sea arthropod it looks a bit like a flea wearing armour
August 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Here's my drawing of an Epimeria rubrieques, a small marine crustacean found in the chilly waters near Antarctica. #AugArthroAwe
Ink and watercolor drawing of a crustacean that looks like a cross between a shrimp and an alien dinosaur, with a segmented body, orange spikes on its back, lots of legs, and appendages coming from its head.
August 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Water bugges! Land bugges! It's bugge time! 💖🦀🦋🐛🐜🐝🐞🦞🦗🕷🦂🦐🦟🪰🪲💖

Join me in celebration of all the good bugges with August Arthropod Awesomeness art challenge!
Templates and references -> tinyurl.com/augarthroawe

#AugArthroAwe #ArtPrompt #MonthlyArtChallenge #invertebrate #arthropod
August Arthropod Awesomeness 2025 1 Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab, Tachypleus tridentatus, 2 Opabinia, Middle Cambrian (505mya), 3 Black Bladder-bodied Meloid, Cysteodemus wislizeni, 4 Devil Reef Crab, Zosimus aeneus 5 Rhombic Leatherbug Syromastus rhombeus, 6 Epimeria rubrieques, 7 Phantom Crane Fly, Bittacomorpha clavipes, 8 Japanese Rhinocerous Beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma, 9 Bluff Wētā, Deinacrida elegans, 10 Jaekelopterus, Early Devonian (410 mya), 11 European Oil Beetle, Meloe variegatus, 12 Giant Antarctic Sea Spider, Decolopoda australis, 13 Shoveller Crayfish, Scyllarides elisabethae, 14 Slug Caterpillar, Thosea vetusta, 15 Tropical Tent-web Spider, Cyrtophora citricola, 16 Long-necked Ground Beetle, Colliuris pensylvanica, 17 Callichimaera perplexa, Middle Cretaceous (95 mya), 18 Fluffy Crab, Lamarckdromia beagle, 19 Rain Spider Wasp, Tachypompilus ignitus, 20 Striped Gooseneck Barnacle, Conchoderma virgatum, 21 Coffee Bee Hawkmoth, Cephonodes hylas, 22 Walker's Moth, Sosxetra grata, 23 Giant African Fruit Beetle, Chelorrhina Polyphemus, 24 Skeleton Shrimp, Caprella penantis, 25 Dragonhunter, Hagenius brevistylus, 26 Pseudopulex jurassicus, Jurassic (165 mya), 27 Spoonwing Lacewing, Nemoptera sinuata, 28 Ant Mimic Moth, Xestocasis iostrota, 29 Giant Emerald Pill Millipede, Zoosphaerium neptunus, 30 Neon Cuckoo Bee, Thyreus pictus, 31 Black Beauty Stick Insect, Peruphasma schultei #AugArthroAwe @thefuzzyslug Green field with segmented caterpillar squiggle decoration at the bottom of the page, a few icon-like bugs scattered around. Templates available! https://tinyurl.com/augarthroawe Art card size 2.5”x3.5” A gray scale card template with areas for art, common name, and scientific name, text above “color me in!” squiggle arrow pointing to template then over to a filled in example with an illustration of a tri-spine horseshoe crab, tachypleus tridentatus. Between the two, “or not! You do you!”
July 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
johnlechner.bsky.social
Here's my rendition of the ethereal Spoonwing Lacewing, ink and watercolor #AugArthroAwe #invertefest
Ink and watercolor drawing of a winged insect with narrow body and wide wings in patterns of pale blue and black, and a second pair of very narrow wings that go backwards. The background is green foliage.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
destinytoro.com
Gaudy Sphinx Moth for #AugArthroAwe!

#art #illustration #BugSky
Illustration of a green Gaudy Sphinx Moth on a light pink background
August 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
gehmflor.bsky.social
Working on getting caught up on my #Late additions to #AugArthroAwe ! 😅 #3in1 #Triptych #ArtPrompt #Arthropod #SciArt #Bugs #InverteFest
#StainedGlass
#JapaneseRhinocerousBeetle
#Opabinia
#TrispineHorseshoeCrab
August 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
tamvmat.bsky.social
#AugArthroAwe #opabinia #inkart
Second drawing for this month's arthropod challenge, Opabinia!
Funny looking lil guy
An ink drawing of a prehistoric arthropod, looking like a shrimp with a tube mouth, saying hiya!
August 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
petrathepostdoc.bsky.social
Day 19 of #AugArthroAwe - Rain Spider Wasp (Tachypompilus ignitus)

when will spiders and wasps become friends...

#invertebrates #SciArt
August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
johnlechner.bsky.social
The Opabinia is an extinct marine creature, only around 7 cm long, who probably didn't have a silly expression like the one I drew for #AugArthroAwe
Ink and watercolor drawing of an Opabinia, a tiny marine creature who looks kind of like a shrimp with flaps along its side and an elephant's trunk.
August 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
spuddles222.bsky.social
Day 8 #AugArthroAwe
Sketchy drawing of a Japanese rhinoceros beetle with a large born
August 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM