This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

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Hi #PortfolioDay I‘m a printmaker and illustrator and these are some of my fav etchings made on zinc

98.4% [of photographers] want $ for past infringements by ai corps. 96.1% believe there should be mandatory labeling for ai-generated works. 89.9% not interested in licensing their images as data for machine learning. 85.3% want default position to be ‘opt-in’ for ai training, not ‘opt-out.’

i still like this one 🌊🎨

In Los Angeles! Just kidding, I’m in Puebla (which was actually called Los Angeles back before the Spaniards got their ass whooped). It has 37 major churches and the oldest library in the Americas

Thank you to all the not bots following me! I greatly appreciate that you like my work enough to deal with my sass. Unless you’re posting AI slop, in which case- gtfo ☺️

Hey, hi! It's #portfolioday again and I'm looking for work!

Heyooo #portfolioday I'm Audre ('charamath') & I'm tired! I'm a vis-dev/concept artist (specializing in designing critters) for animation, film & games. Looking for work and making indie games and a monster manual in the meanwhile! www.charamath.com

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Michelle, concept artist and illustrator, open for work (commercial and private), especially in the Tabletop Gaming and Genre Fiction Realms. 💼: www.coveofmadness.com 🖼️: vgen.co/CoveofMadness 📧: michelle.pecoraro[@]hotmail.com #ttrpg #fantasyart #illustration #bookishart

Hi #PortfolioDay - I'm Jaws. If you like what I do, supporting me on Patreon helps me pay the bills and allows me to spend all my time creating gay little guys. 🖼️ jawsstone.com ✉️ [email protected] 👛 patreon.com/only_jaws 📺 www.twitch.tv/jaws_stone 🎙️ @theartofpod.bsky.social

Hello #PortfolioDay I am Elwyn, a French freelance artist who specializes in medfan illustration. I am currently looking for opportunities in ttrpg, tcg or for book covers Private commissions are open too, the info are on my website Portfolio : elwyn-rain-art.carrd.co ✉️ : [email protected]

What's gooooood it's another #PortfolioDay I'm Morgan, PNW based digital, ink, and watercolor artist interested and experienced in illustrating book covers, TTRPGs, video game art, music album and promo art, and anything Cool and Interesting. Site: mxmorgan.com 📧: hello at mxmorgan dot com

Heyooo #portfolioday I'm Audre ('charamath') & I'm tired! I'm a vis-dev/concept artist (specializing in designing critters) for animation, film & games. Looking for work and making indie games and a monster manual in the meanwhile! www.charamath.com

Hey #portfolioday! I'm Emily and I love everything to do with fantasy, folklore & fairytales. www.emilyhare.com

Registration for my workshop still rolling! pocosinarts.org/product/big-...

late night edibles me is a silly creature youtu.be/ElQAQAKPU4w

NGL- if kid me knew I got so close to fulfilling my childhood dream just to have the industry choose that moment to heave artists into a mass grave she’d probably go walk into the woods and never come back. Art (and dogs) kept me going back then when things were ROUGH. Sorry kid me 😓

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Why birds so horny an hour before dawn?!

So, I couldn’t resist the urge to make a new print based on the Artemis II mission. #art #artemisii www.monkeyminionpress.com/products/art...

1) dogs 2) ART 3) books 4) chocolate

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. but those who do study history are also condemned to repeat it, and it's a lot more annoying for them when they see all it coming.

Life size velociraptor

4ish Hour Study from a couple of photos taken at White Stallion Ranch in Tucson, AZ. Really focusing on naturalistic colors through balancing temperature through saturation. #pleinairpril #digitalpleinair #landscape #desert #horse #artsky

She insisted on walking her fish

Labyrinth — Cartographer’s note I wasn’t supposed to paint this one. It wasn’t just a refuge. It held something. We found it. We stayed there, for a while. Maybe too long. High in the trees, it was already changing. We saw it begin to slip away. So I kept it here. Not as a place, as a memory.

Open for book cover commissions. What book cover would you have me illustrate id you could?

Hey artists! Next Tuesday, Apr 14, is #PortfolioDay! I thought it would be fun to do a little knowledge sharing for the art community ☺️ What are your top tips for building a professional art portfolio? How do you approach it differently if it's digital or physical?

slowly getting back into streaming again with some sketching if anyone wants to drop by and chat/lurk www.twitch.tv/charamath

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

my brushes 🫶

Glaze 2.2 is out. It is an update for Windows users to support recent NVidia GPUs (including 50xx GPUs). Downloads at: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu Mac users do not need to update. We are also updating Nightshade to fix the True bug and also support new GPUs. That update is coming in the next few days.

This is what baby eels looks like. The long trailing tail is its *stomach* (nope, we scientists have no idea why) Eels hold their mysteries close 📽️ by Fan Zhang

2 am me is SPICY

Oh hey, the dude is EXACTLY the type I figured he might be upon reading that headline.

The only thing I'm scared to admit is how fucked my sleep schedule is. Fuck AI. I LIKE drawing and creating.

Is there a way to make a little animated gif part of a png tuber? Running vtube while recording makes my computer angry and just using two .pngs when I made a whole ass gif of my Brejie drawing and twitching his ear and wagging his tail is just...sad

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! I am a trans guy hailing from Colorado. I am a sculptor of dragons and other creatures, playing w clay for 25 yrs. 2026 has been rough so far and I could us some sales, shares, and tips. I am also raising funds for my upcoming move. Thank you 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ lnk.bio/verdantsculpts

happy #tdov I'm a transmasc creature artist and sculptor

My first Trans Day of Visibility on HRT! Happy to celebrate that little milestone and genuinely looking forward to being more visible in the future.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

For Trans Day of Visibility, come support a project run by 2 trans husbands with a bunch of trans artists participating! 🩵🤍🩷 We've Always Been Here is filled with queer art set all throughout history, all over the world. Only 2 days left on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... #TDoV

Can’t legislate us out of existence 🏳️‍⚧️ prints now available!

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

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You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.