I keep making patterns. Forests of patterns. Kaleidoscopes of creatures. Crowns spinning into infinity. This new crowned eagle t-shirt pattern is bold, rhythmic, a little hypnotic. The kind of shirt that quietly says, I notice things most people walk past. I love how patterns in nature feel like discovering an unwritten code to the universe. The crowned eagle, multiplied, mirrored, looped, until it becomes less about a bird and more about the source code behind nature.

This crowned eagle wallpaper gives my obsession with nature’s hidden patterns a new digital form, feathers becoming rhythm, crowns becoming symbols, and repetition turning into meaning. It’s a 1/1 piece. No copies, no factory vibes, just one strange, beautiful rebellion living on-chain. - NFT on ZeroOne Market -

Real art doesn’t wait for perfect conditions. It grows in micro moments. In the car. Between jobs. While the kettle boils. In those quiet five minutes before sleep when your mind finally loosens its grip and lets something real through. If you can learn to love those small windows, you can build entire worlds out of them. Progress doesn’t come from giant uninterrupted blocks.

The Yangtze Finless Porpoise is one of the strangest, rarest, most quietly magical animals on Earth and one of the most endangered. It is the only known freshwater porpoise in the world, living exclusively in China’s Yangtze River, a waterway that has basically been turned into a liquid industrial estate. Somehow, against all odds, it is still here.

Time to make art without squeezing it into the cracks of exhaustion. Time to explore ideas that don’t have an immediate ROI. Time to fail gloriously in peace. Which brings me to my latest dream journal artwork mug: Free Hugs — where I’ve befriended a Komodo dragon. Yes, a real life dragon. The kind of creature that could absolutely ruin your day… and yet in my dream world, we’re just there, hugging it out like two old war buddies who’ve seen some stuff.

This tapir illustration came from my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet take on the #Inktober prompt “trunk.” Yes, elephants are the obvious choice, and I adore them, especially after seeing baby ones swim like wrinkly little submarines of joy. However i wanted this prompt to be all about the Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet. No offence, elephants. You’re flawless. I just needed something more, well… Uncommon.

Some people hang soft pastels and polite florals in their lounge rooms. I hang wild animals that look like they’re about to chew through the wall and escape into the house. My latest artwork, Wolverine Wallpaper, is exactly that kind of beautiful menace. A vortex of striking blue wolverine heads, spinning and snarling like a kaleidoscope of chaos, joy, survival and teeth.

- Buy Hypno Bat Stickers - It all started back when NFTs were booming and everyone was suddenly a digital artist, a collector, and a crypto prophet. I minted my first ever NFT, a Hypno Bat, and sold it for $20. Twenty bucks. Not life-changing money, but mentally? That was massive. I remember thinking, Hang on… what? Someone paid actual money for something that came out of my brain?

- 1/1 NFT on Zero One 1 AVAX - This illustration came out of #Inktober, from the simple act of drawing every day whether I felt inspired or not. The prompt was “crown,” and this lovely eagle emerged, but more importantly, my style did too. My lines tightened. My confidence showed up and I started drawing in a pen and ink style instead of my usual pencil sketch.

This dream drags up old memories of being a kid and fishing in places I definitely wasn’t supposed to be fishing. Not because it was dangerous. Not because it hurt anyone. But because somewhere, some adult decided that joy in the wrong postcode equals crime. Add a fishing rod, a bit of curiosity, and a monster friend, and suddenly you’re public enemy number one.

Show off your love for unique and uncommon animals with this playful "I'm an Uncommon Animal" Tarantula Hawk design! When someone asks, "What uncommon animal are you?" you can proudly answer, "A tarantula hawk!" Did you know the tarantula hawk has one of the most painful stings in the insect world? Or that it hunts tarantulas, paralysing them to feed its young?

I was in a massive cathedral with stained glass so high I don’t recall seeing the floor. Below me, some bloke on a dodgy ladder was throwing potatoes at me. Not a rock. Not a brick. Potatoes. Which somehow made it more sinister. At first it feels funny, but if you actually stop and analyse it or try to turn it into some kind of deep and meaningful artist statement, you realise it’s pretty dark.

Shop Now Not your average cute critter, this design features an original hand drawn Wolverine that will appear in my kids book More Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet, paired with the words “I’m an Uncommon Animal,” made for outsiders, wild spirits, and anyone who refuses to be mass produced. When someone asks what animal it is, you can proudly say the Wolverine, and fun fact, did you know wolverines can take down prey much larger than themselves and have one of the strongest bites for their size in the animal kingdom?

These delightful eight-legged acrobats are part of my ongoing quest to make the uncommon common. Adapted from my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet kids’ book, these spiders are leapi…

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Day 131 of my visual dream journal probably connects more than I first realised to how I’ve been thinking about the way I communicate online. Lately I’ve been working on deleting all social media apps from my phone. Not quitting the internet, not disappearing from social media, just removing the constant presence in the room. All the social apps live on a junk phone now, one that only connects to Wi-Fi at home.

I’ve just finished a new artwork, and I’m still deciding whether I’ve captured something quietly magnificent or something no child should ever meet on the page. The Tarantula Hawk is not a gentle creature. Even drawn in soft psychedelic colours, it carries an intensity that refuses to be ignored. There’s a part of me that wants to place it in the next kids’ book, More Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet, simply because the natural world is full of beings that don’t apologise for their power or their strangeness.

She towers above the crowd, head and shoulders rising like a silent signal that she doesn’t quite belong. Her posture calm, her expression unreadable, at first glance she’s just another figure, but the world around her seems to shrink in comparison. That’s the dream journal artwork I call Blending In, now an NFT on Rodeo Club: a dream made visible, a reminder of what it feels like to stand apart even when you try to disappear in the crowd.

I’ve just dropped a new t-shirt: the I’m an Uncommon Animal dodo edition. A little extinct bird that once strutted around like it owned the world, now gone. A tragic but fitting mascot for our modern creativity: easily distracted, overrun by convenience, and at serious risk of disappearing. Wear it as a warning, or a declaration. #DodoBird #tshirt #uncommonanimals Grab a T-Shirt…

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Meet my Dodo.I originally created this little extinct oddball for Inktober, but it’s since taken on a life of its own… ironic, I know. The Dodo will likely flap its way into my next kids’ book, More Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet. There’s something about its stubborn, slightly bewildered face that feels all too human - an artist trying to survive in a world that keeps changing faster than it can evolve.

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