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Illustrator | Writer | Zinester
I like telling stories I like drawing things

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👋🏻🐝🐱 @howdybees.com · Feb 27

📍hi everyone!
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I'm M, an illustrator, and comic maker. I'm a fan of drawing critters, ttrpgs, and honestly anything that comes to mind. Expect whimsy, stay a while!

I'm open to working on book, editorial, advertising, or any other opportunities!

🐝 howdybees.com
🐝 [email protected]

A loggerhead shrike pierces a snake. Both are decorated with patterns. The scene is framed by thorny vines, fence poles, drops of blood, and barbed wire.

A risograph inspired illustration. A large bottle labeled 0.0% ABV splashes liquid and fruits out. A feminine black person with glasses and pink hair and a masculine tan person with button down and backwards baseball cap both smile and hold out champagne glasses to be filled. Text in the bottom corner reads Free Spirited The Rise of Nonalcoholic Bars in Cleveland.

A black, white, and indigo illustration featuring different spirit characters from the podcast World's Beyond Number. All characters fit within a circular composition.

An illustration of a blue dragon with long legs, tail, wings, and face. The page features a wingspan illustration, and a figure to scale. Text reads BLUE DRAGON Draconis caeruleum. Electricity produced in the dragon’s long electrical organs that trail from the tail, back, and neck. Broad wings built for long distance passive soaring over open oceans without needing to flap. Whisker-like fins used while swimming to attract small prey. Eyesight underwater is reletively poor. Electroreceptors aid in seeing in dark water. Uses it’s sharp beak to impale prey. Conductive properties of beak may assist in directing electricity.

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ahhhhh so many folk liking and repostin my stuff..... x///x
hi hello I'm very shy but thanks for all the support!!!! ฅ^>⩊<^ฅ

February 15, 2026 at 10:25 PM

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WAIT
#comic

April 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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from punishment to kindness

#illustration 🎨🌿

An illustration of a gray and white pit bull leaping from left to right. The dog has a black eye, scrapes on its legs, and has its tail tucked between its legs. It is surrounded by bluebells and pink roses that all sparkle. Text above and below the image says I HAVE TO BELIEVE WE CAN MOVE FROM PUNISHMENT TO KINDNESS.

April 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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what the hey, bat appreciation day?? take some fuzzy guys!!

#bats #illustration 🦇

An illustrated poster titled BATS OF EASTERN US. Each bat is stylistically illustrated, has a cute little face, and hangs upside down. They are numbered and labeled in order. 1. Northern Long-eared 2. Silver Haired 3. Hoary 4. Big Brown 5. Eastern Red 6. Tri-colored.

April 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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Rare little gyandromorph!

#birdart #cardinal #illustration 🧪🌿🌎

March 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM

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loggerhead shrike

#loggerheadshrike #birdart #birdillustrator

A loggerhead shrike pierces a snake. Both animals are decorated with patterns. The scene uses muted colors against a gold background, and is framed by drops of blood, spiked fence posts, thorny vines, and barbed wire.

March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM

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henry m. hachtel

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erm... fished to meet you?
∆06 stoneware & glaze

A bowl posed in the middle of the image, resting on top of white fabric. The bowl is glazed light blue, with a darker blue with yellow speckles glaze dripped around the rim. The bowl is posed so that you can see the interior, where there is a realistically painted rainbow trout, surrounded by the words "troutfully yours ♥".

A closeup on the bowl from the first image, more clearly showing the trout design in the center.

February 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM

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Some spirits of Umora :)

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February 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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ahh…its spring and ive got a mourning dove nest outside my window
#birdart #mourningdove

March 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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never posted this on here but its my favorite thing i made last year so take it!! 🧵

January 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM

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hot springs bidoof. Pokemons been on my mind recently.

a vibrant crayon illustration of two Bidoof from Pokémon relaxing in a colorful hot spring. Sitrus berries—yellow fruit with orange spots shaped somewhat like a pear or a radish—float in the water and sit ontop of the two Bidoofs heads. Puffy white steam rises in the background.

February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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my collection #mycollection ^u^

An embroidered felt calico colored creature—long like a ferret, ears and face of a rabbit, bird wings and back legs, fluffy cat tail and cat paws—is smiling and curved in motion. It is surrounded by various stitched buttons, beads, and sequins in the shapes of leaves, flowers, and stars on a cyan felt background.

February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM

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🌿 Jay 🐝

@computerbugstudios.bsky.social

♡♡♡ BRUSH WEEK 7: LOVELY ♡♡♡

Happy end of brush week!!! We did it!!!

I had a blast playing along with everyone. Huge thank you to @fourleafisland.art for hosting this challenge <3 I can't wait to participate again next year!

#brushweek2025 #digitalart #furryart

Colorful illustration of a bee-racoon hybrid character with angel wings standing in the center of a magazine like composition. They're surrounded by colorful text and images

December 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM

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happy Valentine's day, here's a WIP that feels applicable! you're a real CATCH 🎣💕 #art

Illustration of a frogman cryptid catching a bluegill in a river.

February 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM

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June Ი︵𐑼

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Applin tagged along to the Valentines picnic date

#pokemon #blender

February 15, 2026 at 7:26 AM

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A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

January 31, 2026 at 11:12 PM

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Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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🪲 jules z @ FCL 🌀

@juleshroom.bsky.social

THE WOLF WHO'S BEEN THERE FROM THE START
my new mini comic, a companion piece to my upcoming ANE panel, fursona lore zinemaking. it will debut this con weekend at my panel, sunday in the artist alley, and anywhere you can find me in between those things. can't wait to share it with you all.