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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
an octopus made of sandpaper
@sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
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they/he. transmasc agender, aroace. artist, writer, 27-year-old spider

I post pictures of my OCs and bugs mostly.
my links: linktr.ee/sandpaperoctopi

#art / #oc / #writing / #invertebrates / #cats
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an octopus made of sandpaper @sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social · Apr 8
Hi happy #PortfolioDay !

I'm Morgan, a queer artist mostly focused on original character and nature subjects. I have a shop, and I do commissions through Ko-fi!

🛍️ Shop ☕ Ko-fi 🔗 More Links
Illustration of a dark-colored snail. The body is sort of dark gray with reddish streaks and lines along the top and sides. The shell is dark brown and turning lighter and warmer in color as it spirals in. The background is off-white with squiggles and little stars. Drawing of a very long scaly pinkish gray dragon with curved black horns, a hairy gray mane, bird feet, and a somewhat humanlike face. The dragon, named Eve, has one foot on the shoulder of a human trans guy named Aster who looks like he is struggling under the weight. Aster is pale with wavy blond hair, and he is wearing a white blouse and brown pants and boots. The background is blue with a tan border. Drawing of two winged guys on a blue sort of stained glass-like background with a yellow lace-like border. There is a dark circle behind them. One guy, Lace, is a bit smaller with top surgery scars and curly brown hair. He is wearing star earrings and white pants, and he has long, narrow wings like a barn swallow. He is holding a knife to the throat of the other guy. The other guy, Nemato, is paler with long red hair. He is wearing a white skirt and has more rounded wings patterned like a shrike. Lace looks angry, but Nemato looks almost calm, or even enamored, and is not fighting back. The two guys are glowing a bit. Drawing of four sturgeon swimming through the water with bubbles. The first is brown and swimming to the right while the rest swim to the left. The second is bluish-gray and has a little chip out of a fin. The third is pale yellowish brown and slim. The fourth is darker and gray.
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paulinedrawsbears.bsky.social
This little mouse has found a new friend to watch the rain with 🍂🐌

Pinecone the scarecrow belongs to the amazing @caseymcdang.bsky.social 💛

#art #illustration #cuteart #smartist #mammals
A digital drawing consisting of five panels surrounded by small doodles of leaves, musicnotes, rain and coffeebeans. The first three panels form a small row on top of the drawing: a mouse in a green jacket using a leaf as an umbrella walks along a field following the smell of coffee, wheat and leaves. She arrives at a shoe and sits down on it to play some music. The scarecrow to which the shoe belongs notices. The bottom of the page consists of two larger panels. The first one is more narrow and shows the mouse climbing up the scarecrows outstretched arm, one again carrying her leaf. The last and largest panel shows the scarecrow standing in the field watching the rain and some autumn leaves blowing in the wind while the mouse sits on their shoulder playing on her flute
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Happy possum
Here are several happy Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana). Some are carrying babies on their backs. Fallen leaves surround them. The atmosphere is cozy and warm.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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zuccnini.bsky.social
Acorn home
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]
Watercolor artwork depicting tiny dinosaurs, named jammy, living in a carved out acorn.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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feymien.bsky.social
Back from the dead just in time for my first christmas pinup ❤️💚 as part of a 2k celebration holiday challenge by @slugwurm.bsky.social , who created the outfit ✨

Just had to draw my beloved OC Chaos in it, and also added a cute headband for fun!

#FeymienArt

Suggestive tag for the pose, no nudity💙
Pinup illustration of my OC Chaos. He's got long straight blonde hair and golden eyes and is wearing a red two piece consisting of a harness with large golden studs and a simple piece of underwear connected to sheer red tights with garters. He's also wearing a headband that adds fake antlers and fluffy ears; as well as a fluffy clip on tail. The outfit and headpiece are decorated with mistletoe, golden bells and small red berries
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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dinoserious.bsky.social
brother its cold out
drawing of an anthro snake sat with a fuzzy blanket wrapped around her neck and torso. he is wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants with thick socks. there is a long socklike sleeve around the tail. one hand is outside the blanket, placed on his own torso, while the other is hidden under the blanket. she is giving the viewer a squinted look, with the tips of her tongue sticking out of his mouth
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
gathering flowers

#art #oc #ocsky 🎨
Drawing of my OC Henrietta carrying her adopted baby Bluebell in a woven basket full of flowers and other plants. Henrietta is a tall, pale person with the features of a highland cow. She has a yellow flower in her hair and is wearing a pastel necklace and horn wraps and a blue floral skirt. Bluebell is a small, young unicorn faun. They are brownish with white around the muzzle.
August 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
pals 💕

#oc #ocsky #art 🎨
Drawing of a pregnant black highland cow woman and an orange tabby faun-like unicorn person relaxing on the ground, chatting. The cow woman is much taller and bigger with straight horns and a short hairstyle. She is wearing an orange necklace and a green leaf patterned cloth band around her chest. The unicorn is fluffy with a long very fluffy tail. It has a white flower tucked by its ear. The background is teal with a pale border and little yellow flowers.
September 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Fun fact: I drew this like two years ago and painted the octopus purple. But I thought purple looked corny so I painted over him teal. But then I realized he was the color of Squidward Tentacles and I got mad and stopped and forgot about this piece until now.
A mermaid whose upper body is heavily covered in sailor tattoos lays on her belly while an octopus tattoos naturalistic looking black and turquoise designs onto the scaly part of her tale.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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aorticinkwell.bsky.social
🍁-Rodendra-🍁

#Art #ArtSky #OC #OCsky
Image is a portrait of a horned woman facing the viewer and looking to the viewers left. She wears various pieces of jewelry and a fancy headdress. Her face is framed by leaves.
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
my very first ever D&D character... 🥺

#oc #queerart #art 🎨
Reference sheet of my character Rose, an orange-ish hairy tiefling with messy blond hair, red eyes, and antler-like horns. Rose uses any pronouns and is aro ace. They are short and have very big DIY top surgery scars. The end of their tail is missing (it was eaten by a dog). They have a permanent irritated face. There are two pictures of Rose, one of them in their underwear, and one of them wearing a dark shirt, waistcoat, pants, and dress shoes. There is also a picture of their apple blossom brooch.
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
too many baby

#oc #ocsky #art 🎨
Drawing of an adult calico-patterned unicorn person lying on the ground with three young unicorns. One young orange unicorn is pulling on the adult's ear. A tuxedo baby is grabbing the adult's fluffy tail, and the third baby, a gray unicorn, is sitting politely. The adult unicorn looks mildly distressed.
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Never not a good time to post old watercolor bug doodles
Two bugs illustrated in a loose watercolor. The top is a colorful moth with ornate blue, white, and gold patterns on its wings. The bottom is a true bug with large, horn-like appendages coming off its thorax.
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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orangeblossombitch.bsky.social
Please help me get my beloved best friend a break from grinding himself half to death and the opportunity to rest and heal from a horrible medical procedure 🤲🏽🤲🏽💕
gofund.me/c3a22949b
Help my best friend recover from thyroidectomy surgery, organized by Nesrin Kahraman
In early summer of this year my best friend Caleb had to unde… Nesrin Kahraman braucht deine Unterstützung für Help my best friend recover from thyroidectomy surgery
gofund.me
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
sorry for removing your roof...

#invertebrates 📷
Photo of a Jerusalem cricket in the dirt. There are indents in the ground where a plant pot used to be. The bug is big and round and brown with black and white stripes.
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Lion's head bunny🍓
A rabbit with an unusually fluffy face sticks its head out of a patch of strawberries.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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cordycepswitch.bsky.social
I’m on vacation, and all I can think about is what if the lads were kissing…on the beach?????
My OCs Jules and Galen kissing on a beach. Jules is a young man with black hair wearing a 90s windbreaker outfit, and is sitting on a ledge. Galen is a trans man with long brown hair streaked with silver in a braid, and has a hoodie tied up around his waist. He is leaning against the ledge and kissing Jules. The colors are vibrant and tropical
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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kitnkadoodle.bsky.social
“You will not harm him.”

I love how Protective Rowhan looks in this AU of my Timber Boys with wings.
Moths and Raptors (hawks, eagles, kestrels etc) are probably my favorite flying creatures :3

And silk moths are just so cute and adorable.

🥰
Protective Rowhan glares at a threat
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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micahseacole.bsky.social
#ColoredSketch - Yushka

The new design.
Nameless now has not just a name but also clothes.

#ArtSky #OCSky #DigitalArt #MicahsOCs
digital art, a satyr like figure with some exposed bones and a skeletal tail wearing a colorful skirt made of fabric strips with two big red braids. The figure's hair seems to be made of fabric, is teal and has the same colorful strips incorporated into it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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rabidraygun.bsky.social
Day 25! #Dinovember2025
Stylized drawing of a baby zalmoxes
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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auraboo.bsky.social
Divinity, eclipsed ✨ Kajo and Kae and their respective divine symbols, post-ascension.

#art #watercolor #FantasyArt #OCSky
Watercolour illustration of two demons, both depicted next to an eclipsed sun painted over with a golden symbol. One of them is tall with pink skin and hair and piercings, smiling slightly. The other is shorter, has muted red skin and brown hair, and is staring at the viewer in piercing manner. One side of their faces shows the skull underneath, as if exposed by the eclipse.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
orange creatures 📷
Photo of a very orange hummingbird perched on a stick. It is probably an Allen's hummingbird. Photo of a female American kestrel perched on a power line. She is orange-brown and streaked on her back and tail, but her face is more colorful.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries.

Find more info, download past art book, and submit here:
invertefest.com/#artbook
announcement image that says Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December. Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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thefuzzyslug.bsky.social
Hats! Collector Urchin (Tripneustes gratilla)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...
Panel 1: A brightly colored green, orange, white, and dark purple sea urchin, they have a kelp frond draped across the top of their orbness like a hat, a few orange spines poking through the seaweed, urchin is saying, "Hmm...", Panel 2: same urchin now has a pebble that is the anchor for a small anemone as a hat, urchin is saying, \"Maybe...?\", Panel 3: same urchin now with the shell of a dead urchin of the same species as a hat, "Nah.", Panel 4: close up of urchin reaching off screen with black and white tube feet to some obscured object, "Ohhhh!", Panel 5: a larger panel that contains several urchins wearing various sea debris as hats such as a chunk of a candy wrapper, some pebbles, a limpet shell, and some sea grass. The urchin from the previous four panels now has a large crusty looking dive knife as a hat and is saying "It's PERFECT" while the other urchins say, "nice!" and "so stylish!"
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
best friends forever 🥺

#art #oc #ocsky 🎨
Drawing of a baby faun-like unicorn and a little girl holding hands. The unicorn is fluffy and a little cat-like with seal point fur color and a yellow bow in its mane. The girl is a little taller and has dark curly hair. She is wearing a yellow floral dress and muddy boots, and she is holding a branch with a large beetle on it. Drawing of the same two characters as the first image, but now they are adults. The woman has her hair tied back and is wearing ladybug earrings, a dragonfly necklace, white blouse, green leafy pants, and muddy boots. She is holding a dead leaf with a green island, caused by a leafminer moth larva. The unicorn now has a pink bow tied around its horn, and it is wearing a messenger bag and belt with bags attached for carrying things. It is playing with an aspirator, a tool used for catching small bugs.
July 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
little girl helped a little unicorn escape a trap, and they became friends
#art #oc #ocsky 🎨
Drawing of a little girl reading a book to a fluffy little faun-like unicorn. The girl has dark curly hair and is wearing a pink dress and dusty yellowish boots. The unicorn has the pattern of a seal point cat and has a fluffy mane, hooved feet, and a long fluffy tail. The girl is smiling, and the unicorn appears to be listening intently. The background is blue with some lighter flowers.
June 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM