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Matt Farmer
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Collecting my daily sketches and other images as I study small creatures called The Mashu.

Website: TheMashu.com
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Matt Farmer @mattfarmerart.bsky.social · Apr 4
What are the Mashu?

Mashu are small, friendly, social creatures. They tend to travel around in groups of four to ten, although there appears to be no upper limit on how many will gather or travel together.

Mashu behaviour is entirely based around doing what seems like a fun idea at the time.
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The Mashu enjoy playing tricks on each other.
#Trick #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu struggles to pick up a button. Two other Mashu are stifling a laugh and attempting to hide a bottle of super glue that's twice their height behind them.
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Try and keep your advent calendar out of reach of the Mashu.
#Hero #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Some Mashu are investigating a Cadbury Heroes advent calendar. Two of them have liberated a Fudge from behind one of the doors.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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This Mashu wasn't paying attention to where they were going.
#Slanted #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A solar powered lamp is stuck in the ground at an angle. A Mashu is sat next to it rubbing their face, while their friends look concerned.
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The Mashu think car windscreens are good fun on a frosty morning.
#Frosty #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Some Mashu slide and roll down a frosted up car windscreen.
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Why is this Mashu in landscape mode?
#Landscape #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu and small Mashu look confused at their companion, who is laying perfectly horizontal on their side.
December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Fruit flies are tiny, even by Mashu standards.
#Speck #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Two Mashu and a small Mashu watch some tiny fruit flies. One is buzzing around, one is on the small Mashu's head, another has landed on a Mashu's back, but they haven't noticed.
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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These Mashu are getting in on the purrito action.
#Restful #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A cat wrapped in a blanket, burrito style, with just their head visible at the top. Three Mashu are snuggled into the cat's cheeks and a fourth is laying on their head.
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Boldly going where no Mashu has gone before... As far as they're aware.
#Bold #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Several Mashu walking over a drain grating and into the bottom of a drainpipe.
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The Mashu wouldn't pay any attention to warning signs, even if they did understand the symbols. This one will recover soon enough.
#Symbol #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A high voltage sign is stuck to a wall. To the left a Mashu and a small Mashu look concerned as another Mashu, looking dazed, charred black, and with smoke rising from their head, returns from their adventure beyond the sign to the right.
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The Mashu are big fans of bubbles.
#Burst #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu and small Mashu are admiring some bubbles floating above them. A Mashu standing between them is startled as a big bubble pops against their head.
December 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." For the Mashu it doesn't need to be particularly advanced.
#Magic #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu is playing on a Tamagotchi, being held up by another Mashu, while a small Mashu watches.
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Mashu and fine china is a bad combination.
#Delicate #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Three Mashu are in a fine china cup, with a fourth perched on the handle, and a fifth tripping backwards and bumping into the cup. The cup is wobbling precariously on its saucer, very close to the edge of the table. A Mashu is running across the table to try and help while a small Mashu looks on with a shocked expression.
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The Mashu's speedy transport service is experiencing some unexpected delays.
#Slow #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
The bunny from yesterday's sketch, with the three Mashu riding on it, is now sitting on the grass, surrounded by dandelions, munching it's way through another one, and ignoring the one the Mashu on its head was leading it with.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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These Mashu have found a speedy way to get about.
#Fast #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A rabbit runs full pelt over grass. Two Mashu are riding on its back while a third is balancing on its head, holding out a dandelion ahead of it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Redraw of the Mashu getting messy with the prompt #Pattern from Inktober 2019.
#SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu stands next to a paint tin, hands covered in blue paint, considering their handiwork. Three more Mashu stand in a row in front of them, painted with spots, horizontal stripes, and diagonal wavey lines respectively. A small Mashu leaves a trail of footprints, having walked through a puddle of paint spilled next to the tin.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The Mashu meet Douglas the Daniff.
#Giant #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Two Mashu and a small Mashu are sitting on the snout of, and balancing and standing on the head of a very happy looking Great Dane Mastiff cross named Douglas.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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These Mashu have accidentally caused an Ever Given situation in this stream.
#Canal #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Three Mashu and a small Mashu sit on a broken off branch that has got wedged between the banks of a stream. Two Mashu in a paper boat upstream look concerned and annoyed respectively.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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These Mashu are waiting for a breeze so the show can begin.
#Wind #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A purple pinwheel is stuck in the ground on a stick. Several Mashu and small Mashu are sat around it, excitedly waiting for a gust of wind to make it spin.
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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There's been a Mashu ambush!
#Snow #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu holding a tiny snowball is hiding behind a small snowdrift, with a small Mashu peering out from behind them. The other side of the snowdrift a Mashu is pushing themselves up from laying face down in the snow, the snow from another snowball all over the back of their head.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This Mashu is showing off a poppy they found.
#Veteran #500DayStreak #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu holds up a Poppy Appeal poppy to be admired by a Mashu and a small Mashu.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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These Mashu have been cranberry picking. Wait... Is that a blueberry...?
#Cranberry #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Some Mashu are walking along, each carrying two or three cranberries. A small Mashu has a blueberry balanced on their head, to the confusion of the Mashu behind them.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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These Mashu are having a close encounter with a turkey dinosaur.
#Turkey #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A Mashu with a big grin on his face is holding up a turkey dinosaur in the shape of a T. Rex. A small Mashu looks up at it admiringly, while two other Mashu look scared and run away.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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These Mashu are off on a quest with a fennec fox.
#Fox #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
A fennec fox walks through a desert, eyes closed against the wind. Mashu are riding on its head and back, and another is clinging on to its tail.
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The Mashu have their own version of fast food.
#Corn #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Three Mashu are running on top of a corncob, making it roll across the ground. A small Mashu is running in front, attempting to keep ahead of it.
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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These Mashu look like they could use some assistance.
#Harvest #SketchADay #TheMashu #Illustration #Art #Sketch
Four Mashu strain against the green leaves on top of a carrot, like a tug of war, as they strain to pull the carrot from the ground.
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM