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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 1d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

Impossible Rabbit.

A attempt at more finished version lost a lot of the charm of the bunny-birds. And then the next attempt. And again. And then I decided to just listen to the bunny-birds Who clearly wanted to be just like this.

#fauxinktober #digitalart

Quick, loose sketch of someone with a shopping bag and a parka walking past a wrought iron fence. Their shadow has bunny ears. There’s a massive white bunny on the other side of the fence. And a bunny by their foot. And some bunny-birds in front of them examining carrots. And a bunny-bird on the fence. And another in a tree.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 4d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

Cleopa-trash-panda.

I spent an embarrassing long time on Cleopat-rash, which… no, just no.

#fauxinktober #digitalart

Drawing of a garbage can with two raccoons. The one climbing out has a cleopatra headdress, and is holding an opened bag of Doritos in her mouth.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 4d

I watched one episode of Mad Men, and decided that I don’t want those people in my life, even if they are fictional.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 5d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

The Speedy Grail. It’s moving fast because Jesus is throwing it at someone as The Last Supper Food Fight is getting out of hand.

I know nothing about Christianity. Let he without sin throw the first metal cup? Should Mary Magdalene be there?

#fauxinktober #digitalart

Digital collage of bits of sketches of The Last Supper going horribly awry and descending into violence. The Last Supper Food Fight. Mary Magdalene is not amused. There are presumably 10 other Apostles out of frame, pelting each other with food.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 6d

liebenswert!

(If Google Translate translated correctly, otherwise “adorable”)

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 6d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

Unicorn, but backwards. So… all the horns. A porcupine horse? A one legged monstrosity disgusted by his own existence? Both.

#fauxinktober, since it’s merely #digitalart, with none of the finality of ink.

Digital sketches based on the prompt “Unicorn, but backwards.” Porcupine Horse, a spiked monstrosity with one leg, sketches of other possibilities in the background, including a really nice stick figure unicorn with a horn tail and a tail on his forehead.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 7d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

The false elephant.

#fauxinktober, since it’s merely #digitalart, with none of the finality of ink.

A loosely drawn dinosaur (t-rex or raptor, but not so anatomically accurate that we need to care), with an elephant disguise — a mask with ears, eyeholes, tusks and trunk, and canes with fake elephant feet.

Dinosaur is pink, and the elephant is teal)

There is a fake paper texture, and some dot type “newspaper” shading.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 8d

#hässlichtober / #uglytober

Bicycle, but wrong. Not sure how many of these I will do, as the prompt list is in German, and Google Translate does exciting things.

#fauxinktober, since it’s merely #digitalart, with none of the finality of ink.

A digital drawing of a stylized bicycle (teal, pink seat). Climbing out of the wheels, possibly from another dimension, is some tentacle monster with at least one eye stalk and a mouth on the end of a tentacle. Monster is pink, with a teal eye.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 8d

I was, in fact, not ready for this. I don’t know that I ever will be.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 12d

Our friend, T. Occelus. She was promised pie.

#alienearth #procreate #digitalart

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 12d

I hope I pass bunny muster

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · 23d

Iris the eyeball monster (T. Ocellus) from Alien: Earth, with a stuffed sheep. I am obsessed with our new little Disney Princess.

#alienearth #tocellus #procreate

An eyeball monster (multiple irises, one eyeball, on a base with tentacles) putting a tentacle around her favorite stuffed sheep. The sheep is missing an eye.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Chinchilla!

#art #artyear

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jul 6

He’s adorable!

Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jul 6

#sundayfishsketch I may have done sockeye salmon last week too.

#procreate #artyear #sockeye

A digital drawing of a piece of salmon nigiri, with the darker, redder tones and leaner flesh of sockeye. The background it a grayish green color, and the there is text above that says “Sunday Fish Sketch 2020.07.06 / Sockeye Salmon” in white, small caps, with a very square font.

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Reposted by Robert Gustavo

Vinni @rabensturmig.bsky.social · Jun 29

Ist es nicht schön, gemeinsam in der Tiefsee zu schweigen?
#kleinekunstklasse

Düsteres Aquarell - eine dünne Meerjungfrau mit leuchtenden Augen, daneben ein Laternenfisch mit wackelaugen

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Reposted by Robert Gustavo

Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · Jun 30

The female Green-crowned Brilliant admonishing me for posting too many males.

Monteverde #CostaRica

#birds #hummingbirds #nature

A green hummingbird with white underparts perches on a branch, extending its long, thin tongue out past its bill. The background is a smooth gradient of green.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 29

#sundayfishsketch Sockeye salmon.

#artyear #procreate #sockeye #salmon

Digital art drawing of a sockeye salmon, swimming upstream in a shallow creek.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 28

A Tully Monster nose? I didn’t know other creatures had those!

I guess I have a few hours of web browsing to do to learn more.

And they hold flowers like a hyrax?

Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 23

He’s a very nice Minotaur. I feel like he is listening to my complaints compassionately before gently asking “have you considered just goring them?”

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 22

There’s a lot of good art under #kleinekunstklasse.

Google claims it means small art class, but I don’t know how accurate that is. Or whether I am following a whole lot of really talented 3rd graders. Or if the art is small rather than the artists. Or if the initials are meaningful (hope not!)

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 22

#sundayfishsketch A very sketchy anglerfish for Sunday fish sketch

#artyear #procreate #anglerfish

A sketch of an anglerfish. He is gray, on a blue background, and has green bioluminescence.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Skater kid flipping of ICE (not pictured)”

#artyear #procreate #skaterkid

Digital drawing of a person carrying a skateboard on the streets of LA. He(?) is raising his right arm to defiantly flip off the ICE and/or ICE-affiliated LAPD after having walked through a bunch of “less lethal” shells.

The kid is dressed in dark colors, with a dark backpack, and a dark bandana. There is a splotch of green on the inside of his right knee from a paint round.

Further in the background is a white sedan, some tree trunks, a fence of metal bars, and cement walls.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 8

#sundayfishsketch a box fish. (And trying out different brushes and techniques with my art program)

#artyear #fish #procreate

A digital drawing of a yellow-orange box fish with black spots on a blue background.

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Robert Gustavo @robertgustavo.bsky.social · Jun 5

#juneerie “playground”

A digital drawing of a xplayground foot-powered merry-go-round thing, with crows resting on it. There are a couple of puddles of something unsavory. Trees in the background, one with a tire swing.

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