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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 14d

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

Invertober 2025
1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica)
2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)
3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica)
4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus)
5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor)
6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala)
7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum)
8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix)
9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)
10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula)
13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus)
14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois)
15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
(Ornithoptera alexandrae)
‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬
17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus)
18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella)
21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata)
22. Sea angel (Clione limacina)
23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima)
24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus)
25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva)
27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis)
28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla)
29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus)
30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis)
31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #Invertober day 8!

Bee-killer robber fly (mallophora fautrix)

#SciArt #Invertober2025

A black and gold insect that looks like a bee but is actually a species of fly that mimics bees. It is crawling through thick green grass.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #Invertober day 9!

Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi)

This one was a struggle... such a complicated little person, but great name!

#SciArt #Invertober2025

Digital painting of a small squid-like marine creature. It has flappy bits and squat curling arms and is patterned in colors of pink, burgundy, and yellow.

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing!!! I thought this was a photograph at first

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 1d

“Just make it exist first, you can make it good later” #sciart #birds #render #rendering #painting #art #artist #artistsupport #smallartist #bird #nature #beforeandafter

an unfinished painting of a great blue heron

a finished painting of a great blue heron

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 14d

the trex one reminds me of a scene i saw in a jurassic park video game! i love your work!!

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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · Oct 8

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm hby here's some of my #pixelart.

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 18d

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

#watercolor
#gouache
#kidlitart
#autumnequinox

watercolor and gouache painting of a fairy-sized girl sitting beneath a mushroom surrounded by an overgrowth of leaves and berries

watercolor and gouache painting of a little bird sitting atop a mushroom surrounded by leaves and grass

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 18d

does anyone else enjoy toggling between their sketch layer and rendering layer for encouragement while drawing? #wip #inprogress #painting #fish #fishing #sciart #artist #supportartists #smallartists #digitalart #art #artist

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 20d

Feeling kinda guilty drawing this fish’s face lmao, like I don’t think he’s having a good time #fish #womenlovemefishfearme #sciart #nature #fishing #art #painter #digiart

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 22d

which background do you prefer? #entomology #sciart #supportartists #smallartist #art #nature #bugs

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 22d

#entomology #sciart #supportartists #smallartist #nature #bugs #butterflies #science #arthropods

charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 23d

rendering saves lives😪 #supportartists #smallartists #sciart #nature #entomology

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · 23d

has anyone else seen the new baby okapi at the san diego zoo?🥺😿also got a good shot of a southern bald ibis haha #birds #bird #okapi #sandiegozoo

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · 24d

Next on the list, and one of two incredibly obscure ornithischians from the Kem Kem, an indeterminate iguanodontian! This animal is only known from a singular half-metre-long footprint. More thoughts and size comparison below ⬇️

#paleoart #sciart

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am now at liberty to share with you another of the numerous concept art pieces I did for the upcoming docuseries “Surviving Earth”. This time is for the juvenile Ischigualastia jenseni

#paleoart #SurvivingEarth #conceptart #nbcuniversal

Concept art of Ischigualastia juvenile showing it in frontal, dorsal, lateral and three quarters view

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · Sep 9

R.I.P. Mark Norell. One of the most memorable and distinct characters in paleontology. When he said something, it might be totally outrageous, brilliant, or something else, but it always was interesting. He had a curmudgeonly sense of humor and a winning smile. Mark was very kind to me. RIP.

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · Sep 8

This beauty is an Otago Skink, endemic to Aotearoa NZ. They are one of NZ's largest lizard species and live in schist outcroppings. They can withstand cold winters and have evolved to give birth to live young!
#skink #herp #lizard #reptile #sciart #herpetology #wildlife #natureart #art #animalart

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · Sep 8

Got the absolute pleasure of viewing some of Charles R. Knight’s paintings at the L.A. Natural History Museum for my birthday😊so much lifelike detail in his work. #sciart #paleontology #natureart #art #naturalhistory

a painting by charles r. knight depicting pteranodons over the ocean.

a painting by charles r. knight depicting a scene from the early cambrian era.

a painting by charles r. knight depicting a carbonoferous forest with huge amphibians.

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · Sep 5

the last photo killed mee hahah! like a dog playing fetch

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · Sep 5

i am so sad that i will be leaving tokyo on the 17th because id love to see your art in person!!😭

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TAKAO★WATANABE🎨10/29～11/3 solo exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · Sep 5

TANECHAN was carefully observing the honeybee's legs. Why did pollen stick to its legs? And why did it form such a round, solid clump on its legs? TANECHAN watched intently, imagining all sorts of possibilities.

#Illustration
#LineArt
#CommentPls

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD @lindzeamays.bsky.social · Sep 3

✨New Science illustration✨
Synchronized lifecycle of plum curculio and its host plant, blueberry.

1 of 2 illustrated figs for a book chapter commissioned by Rutgers entomologist Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.

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Where no crawly is creepy!
LindZeamays Illustration
lindzeamays.com

🪲🪳🎨🐡🧪 #invertefest

Illustrated science illustration of a plum curculio weevil lifecycle synchronized with their host plant, blueberry.

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · Sep 3

#wip of some beautiful butterflies and flowers based on photographs I got on my recent trip to Tucson! The desert is one of my favorite places to find bugs and reptiles 🐛🦎 #sciart #natureillustration #illustrations #art #supportartists #nature #bugs #butterflies #entomology

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charlie @sacredeels.bsky.social · Sep 3

this is amazing!!

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