What a month. 0 sales, plus I updated the OS on my iPad and it kept crashing so much that I had to buy a new one. I am very, very lucky that slowly drawing bugs is merely a hobby.

Folks, I have a solution: no-one is allowed to hold power once they reach 50. Decisions need to be made by young people who will live through the consequences, not deranged old men who only care about their legacy.

Some birds just look like old souls. Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), colored pencils on Canson pastel paper. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #birdart #birds #ColoredPencil #drawing

Trying to work out if this was written by AI, or just someone with terrible writing skills. What a world we live in now. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Somewhat amusing that my only sale this month had to be cancelled when they realised what I sell is a print, rather than an actual insect. Bonus points for realism, I guess.

After yesterday's nice feedback, here are another couple of spreads from my concept book.

A couple of page concepts from the book I'd love to create some day.

Just watched The Babadook. Holy shit.

Illustration of an Indian Rose Mantis (Gongylus gongylodes) 🌹 - #scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #mantis #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #mantis #rosemantis

Dawn over Marl Pits (1) digital painting

Get all of these for cheap!

For a limited time (a week or two) I've reduced the price of my complete postcard set to just £30. That's about 64p per card, which is INSANE. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/6...

catching up on #febugary2026, here's toxodera integrifolia!! #art #bugs #sciart

Artists, quote with something silly!

Anyone who knows how long my drawings take will know that participating in #febuguary2026 is impossible. However, today's bug happens to be one I've already drawn: Toxodera integrifolia

Possibly my most controversial opinion is that we don't actually live in a democracy when morons can be influenced so easily. It's not 'The Will of The People' if the people can be so easily manipulated to consistently vote for their own demise.

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

This piece has already a few years, but I still like to come back to it from time to time #sciart #insects

Nice to hear that the South Bank Centre has been Grade II listed. Here’s a few of my South Bank drawings from a few years ago.

Well, after a lot of struggle with image formats and my own embarrassment, I have made A BOOK (well, it's a PDF, let me have my moment) about the sauropods of the Iberian Peninsula. Links at the end of the thread

Can anyone recommend decent and inexpensive A1 and A2 frames (uk)? Like many artists, I imagine, I need to find something sturdy and professional looking, without eating too much into my profit.

Added some (hopefully) SEO-friendly text to my website yesterday. Now patiently* waiting for the orders to come rolling in. *ish

First week of #Febugary2026 !

Artists, quote with your most detailed art. This took me almost a year. It's 25x7 feet and was painted actual size in Photoshop before being printed as wallpaper and mounted. I needed progressive lenses after this.

New gallery in my portfolio! #sciart #birds Take a look 👇👇👇 www.drawfolio.com/en/portfolio...

Artists, quote with your most detailed art. 6 months of absolute tedium, this one.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

One of the things I'm looking forward to is this personal scavenger hunt-esque list of the species we're hoping to find this year. It's a way to keep us outdoors and grounded in these current times AND in multiple habitats. #sciart #naturalist

I've quite enjoyed the Traitors as a guilty (i.e. trashy) pleasure, but their crowning glory was the music selection for the finale: The Cinematic Orchestra, Einaudi, Max Richter and Sigur Ros, all in the space of about 5 minutes. Give their music selector a raise!

Achrioptera manga

A little preview of my new drawing. Just over the 4 hour mark.

Hurrah feeling better enough that I can partake in the last shortlist bird for #BirbFest2026 Here be the majestic Red Junglefowl..... #BirdArt #SciArt #BirbFest #Illustration #Procreate #ArtSky

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Suella Braverman is the absolute worst. Imagine complaining that what you want to do to people is being constrained by... *checks notes* ...human rights laws. What an absolute piece of human garbage.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

@arsenalvisionpodcast.com title for the next pod: 'Look what happens when you take shots'.

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

I've started my next bug and it's a funky grasshopper. In the meantime, please enjoy this funky grasshopper: Eastern Lubber (Romalea microptera).

Some more #birbfest2026 characters! Here we have a Northern Emerald Toucanet, a Dalmatian Pelican, a Common Redpoll, & the New Holland Honeyeater🪶. Who’s your favourite? #kidlitart #illustrator #childrensillustration #birdillustration #birds (are we supposed to hashtag on BlueSky? No idea 👵)

A page from my sketchbook. I think I'm falling in love with colored pencils... and frogs 🐸

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Insects ❤️

Dragon Flower Mantis (Toxodera integrifolia) #AppreciateADragonDay

One of the most important interviews that @zackpolanski.bsky.social has done so far. youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?...

Illustration of a cat-eye stick mantis (Heterochaeta orientalis) ✨ - #scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #mantis

It is vital that you know what is happening. You can see the briefing on-line here: www.nebriefing.org Many of us think the event should be televised so nobody can claim they didn't know.... www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

Hi #portfolioday, I'm Martyn. When I'm not drawings bugs, I'm drawing other bugs.

I know it was full of bots and Nazis, but this kind of post would've done serious numbers on Twitter. Can you folks help me share this with fellow nature / insect enthusiasts?

Reshare for the morning crowd...

It's up on my website now: martynwarren.com/gallery/chin...