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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 2h
#Invertober2025 Day 11: Dolomedes tenebrosus in pencil.

Verdict: too many appendages so don’t draw them.

#Invertober #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3h
#Invertober2025 Day 10: Lumbricus terrestris in pencil.

Verdict: I would usually say utterly inadequate appendages but this was delightfully satisfying to draw. And fast. Delightfully fast.

#Invertober #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3h
Argh speed-drawing catch up time!
#Invertober2025 day 9: Ascarosepion pfefferi - in interminable watercolour.

Verdict: Appendages adequate but TOO MUCH ILL-DEFINED COLOUR.

#Invertober #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 21h
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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 1d
It's Devil's Coach Horse season. 🖤
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
#Beetles
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A large black beetle, showing its aggressive 'scorpion-like' posture.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 3d
#Invertober day 8: Mallophora fautrix in 3B pencil - another 15-minuter, and ohmygoshitwasnotenough.

Verdict: correct number of appendages (though some seem to be made of pipe-cleaners, and it could do with some mandibles and elytra.)

#Invertober2025 #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4d
Day 7 #Invertober: Chrysomallon squamiferum. Need to get faster so gave myself only 15 minutes for this. And it shows!

Verdict: insufficient appendages, though it makes up for it with decisive fiddilness.

#invertober2025 #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4d
I mean it is giving
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4d
Lost the will to live with the rugose front bit so fudged it.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4d
Weevils ARE cool!
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 4d
Day 6 Invertober: Phalera bucephala. Watercolour. Lengthy watercolour.

Verdict: insufficient appendages.

#Invertober #Invertober2025 #SciArt
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 5d
Nice!!! #invertober2025
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Frogge257 @frogge257.bsky.social · 5d
#invertober2025
WEEVILS!!
A repeating weevil pattern on a green background. The weevils are orange and red and are alternated facing up and down.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 5d
Day 5 Invertober: Panulirus versicolor, in watercolour.

Verdict: too many appendages.

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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 6d
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 6d
This person has literally all my respect. Sorry, none left for anyone else.
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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 7d
Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 7d
Day 4 Rhynchophorus cruentatus in felt tip and brush and ink.
#invertober #invertober2025 #SciArt
Bad drawing of a chonky orange palmetto weevil that will either delight or horrify you.
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 8d
"6 of flies", ink, watercolour, oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #sciart
A small painting of 6 dead house flies arranged in 2 columns and 3 rows of 2.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 7d
Day 3 Anthopleura xanthogrammica but I got bored.
#invertober #invertober2025 #SciArt
A half-finished pencil drawing of a sea anemone
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
Day 1 #invertober2025
Chrysaora pacifica
Bit late and hampered by lack of watercolour paper or masking fluid… so it’s actually painted in inks. Supplies hopefully arriving soon so the rest of the month will be better.
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
That is awesome!
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
Day 2 #Invertober2025 - Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
The hidden image was supposed to look like this
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
I quite liked the individual tiles...
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Creophilus @creophilus.bsky.social · 8d
Day 2 #invertober
A good idea, poorly executed
A stereogram (MagicEye) picture. The tiles are tesselated stylised Graphocephola coccinea from above, the hidden image is a Graphocephola coccinea from the side. Neither is particularly good.
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