A honey badger does not need a couch A Komodo dragon does not need a name tag, and a wolverine is not secretly dreaming of a warm lap by the fire. These animals carry something older than comfort, something sharp and intact, and the closer you look the more obvious it becomes that trying to turn…

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Dreams from the Optical Delusions Series There is something quietly unhinged about sitting down at the end of a long day, hands still carrying the weight of everything practical and necessary, and choosing to disappear into a field of black and white curves that do nothing useful except pull the…

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Every fragment is a real species moving through the world with its own survival story.

I’m gonna kill that negative creep!

Permission to push past the invisible fences

Growing Up – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 162 - Buy T-Shirt - Day 162 of an ongoing human and machine collaboration, Growing Up captures a fleeting subconscious moment where responsibility climbs steep and heavy while innocence follows close behind, a quiet record of the inner landscape that…

The honey badger does not give a f**k There is something quietly magnificent about the honey badger, a small animal that walks through the world with the sort of confidence most humans spend their entire lives trying to borrow. We often move through life carefully, trying not to offend anyone,…

With curiosity and a bit of resilience you eventually discover your own visual territory Somewhere in the quiet hours of making art the mind slips sideways and time loosens its grip, and that is usually where I find myself when I am drawing patterns like this coconut crab wallpaper, slowly…

The southern elephant seal is one of those animals most people will travel their entire lives without ever meeting, let alone sharing a quiet morning coffee with, which is partly why it ended up in my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet series in the first place. andycmarshall.com/2024/03/13/a...

A few quiet superstitions can actually serve an artist Superstitions often shape behaviour in ways that protect the work. One of the most useful is the belief that ideas lose power when they are talked about too early. When an artist treats a new idea like something fragile that must be protected,…

A proper old school art supply place Dreams can be hard to catch, especially when you are trying to do it every day like I have. Sometimes an epic movie plot unspools and leaves a mountain of tangled celluloid on the floor. This image, Twin Moons, was more like a cryptic postcard from the other…

A stubborn refusal to accept the expected hierarchy of the wild The last thing I learned came from an animal most people barely think about, yet it carries the kind of stubborn intelligence that artists quietly admire. The honey badger lives in a world that tries to bite, poison, sting, and…

My Visual Dream Journal Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Some of my latest dreams captured with words and recreated with AI. I’ve finally come up with something that resembles those fleeting glimpses into the infinite creative engine of the dream world, blending it…

Growing a Generation That Cares Enough to Protect What Remains

Aardvark Wallpaper Greeting Cards That Double as Mini Wall Art Buy Aardvark Wallpaper Cards Aardvarks are one of those animals everyone thinks they know, mostly because half the businesses in the old phone books called themselves Aardvark something just to cheat their way to the front of the…

Some endings are less about loss and more about transformation

My Visual Dream Journal – Day 144 - New Guy - In my Visual Dream Journal, I frantically snatch at the fleeting scraps of my dreams with the help of AI, preserving the absurd, dark, and beautiful bits before they dissolve into the ether forever. The project is an uneasy handshake between my twisted…

I’d be the worst person in the world I have never liked thought experiments. So let us run the worst thought experiment imaginable. If I could be someone else for a day, I would choose the worst person in the world. Not because it would be enjoyable. It would probably be the most confronting day a…

Honoring My Five-Year-Old Self: The Artist-Zookeeper of Uncommon Animals Read blog or purchase my - S is for Salamander original 1/1 Print andycmarshall.com/2025/03/28/h...

We search the skies for wonder while stepping over it in the grass. My alien animals began the way most honest creative work begins, quietly, without a grand plan. Just curiosity poking at the edges of an idea. Around that time the world seemed briefly obsessed with things in the sky. UAP they…

Integrating work, family and art in a way that is sustainable. My Hypno Bats are probably still out there somewhere, suspended in the digital ether. Hundreds of them. Different colours, slight variations, small evolutions of the same strange creature. I minted them across multiple NFT platforms…

Make a body of work that feels undeniably yours If I could sit down with my teenage self, the kid who loved animals but was already learning to dilute himself to fit in, I would not tell him to be realistic. I would tell him to be precise about what he is refusing. Do not give up on art. Not…

The Yangtze finless porpoise lives in one of the busiest rivers on Earth Cargo ships grind overhead. Industry churns the water into a permanent murk. It is nearly blind, so it listens instead. It sends out sound and reads the returning echo, building a picture of the world from vibration rather…

Most artists underestimate how much water they need Especially those trying to cross that fragile invisible threshold between surviving and thriving. The brain is mostly water, and every idea begins as an electrical event moving through that internal ocean. When the water level drops, the signal…

How artists cross the invisible line between being overlooked and being undeniable The aardvark is not a celebrity species. It does not make headlines. It lives in the margins, working the night shift, shaping ecosystems while the world sleeps. Most people could live their entire lives without…

The Hypno bat has stayed with me from the beginning, like those old sneakers The Hypno bat has never felt like a single finished artwork to me. It behaves more like a living organism that keeps shedding its skin and growing a new one. This latest version carries the fingerprints of another visual…

S is for Sunflower Sea Star – Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet The sunflower sea star is one of the largest sea stars on Earth, capable of growing up to a metre across, moving with eerie speed along the ocean floor on thousands of tiny tube feet. It is not a passive ornament. It is a hunter. It…

Visual Dream Journal — Day 137: Take Cover You know how during a solar eclipse you can make a pinhole camera inside a cardboard box so you can safely witness something too bright and overwhelming to look at directly. This felt like that. Only instead of an eclipse it was an intense meteor storm…

A “hidden wonder,” quietly going about their work while the world fixates on myths. Ever known a blood-sucking corporate executive? Or maybe one of those energy vampires who leaves you drained by the time they walk out the door? Well, I’ve got a gift idea that’s subtle, pointed… and entirely…

Who Are the Art Police? My Vampire Bat began the old fashioned way. Pen scratching across paper. Ink staining fingers. I used three reference photographs, fed them into AI to generate a symmetrical guide because bats, like leaves and lungs, carry that mirror language of nature. Then I drew it by…

Is it too scary for my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet kids book? My Vampire Bat did not feel evil as I drew it. It felt precise. Ancient. Efficient. A survivor doing what it has always done, long before humans arrived with their stories and fears and misunderstandings. We have turned Vampire…

I would happily create until I am cold in the soil The Hypno Bat Electric Eel pillows are finally out in the world. A soft square thing that carries a bit of voltage in it. Camouflaged and blending into electrical eel currents, symmetry pulling against itself, light and dark circling each other…

Don’t be a jerk and the machine keeps humming What if Earth was a machine? An absurd, over-engineered piston-and-belt nightmare buried under our feet, groaning, humming, probably grumbling about humanity’s idiocy. And like every machine, it’s needs stuff. It demands maintenance. It spits warnings.…

An artist’s digital home base The sunflower sea star is one of the strangest, most beautiful things in the ocean. All arms, symmetry and quiet alien grace. And it’s been getting wiped out by star wasting disease. They don’t just die, they fall apart. Arms drop off. Bodies collapse. Not because of…

Why Some Artists Thrive While Others Burn Out (And What Patterns in Nature Teach Us) They’re small, elusive and deeply connected to their ecosystems. They don’t dominate the forest, they harmonise with it. For animal lovers, they carry that quiet magic, half myth, half biology. For me, they’re…

This Vampire Bat Would Look Great Hanging in Your Castle There’s something about a vampire bat that hits three of my favourite nerve endings at once: art, animals and old-school horror. So when #Inktober threw up the prompt Pierce, my pen immediately went for fangs. This illustration is a…

Trade short term sugar highs for long term soul fuel If I listen carefully underneath all that orchestrated noise I hear sugar’s siren song, like the call of the Hypno Bat, saying diabetes is great, death is cool, everyone loves a dead artist, that’s when they finally make sure you get famous,…

Fear shrinks your world. Fascination expands it Fear that you’re behind. Stress that you’re failing. Overwhelm that you’ll never catch up. None of that comes from the forest, the ocean, the stars, or even your own thoughts when they’re left alone long enough to breathe. It comes from the glowing…

This is going to change art forever! I want to say it’s print on demand. It looks like freedom for artists. No stock, no warehouses, no gatekeepers. Just upload your work and suddenly you’re a business. Except it’s still a gate. Same system, new costume, worse terms, thinner margins. You might…

What does your perfect day as an artist look like? Here’s mine  I wake up before sunrise arguably the best time of day. No alarm. No doom-scroll. No corporate sirens screaming productivity into my skull. Just light, breath, birds, and the quiet hum of a day that hasn’t been ruined yet. My phone is…

Time strips your illusions and hands you something better When I was younger, I thought life events happened to me. Now I see they happen through me. Like storms through a forest. You don’t stay the same tree. You bend. You lose branches. You grow moss in weird places. Sometimes lightning hits and…

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Slow Art in a Fast World Something that has lived on my to do list forever is publishing my kids book, Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet. As you can see, I’ve created an entire universe of merchandise, t shirts, mugs, pillows and stickers, but you know what I don’t have? The book. The one thing…

From Dream Creatures to Homegrown Realness I’ve always had a fascination with the octopus, a kind of beauty horror combination, so it’s no wonder they make regular appearances in my dreams. Their ability to camouflage, solve problems, and just how utterly alien they are fascinates me. People seem…

From Tape Drives to the Creative Takeover I’m drawing a brocket deer, tiny, shy, and endangered, and it hits me how much it feels like artists today. Both live in worlds where everything is sacrificed to the god of money and convenience. Forests get bulldozed, attention spans get mined, and…

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Afraid of Flying, Afraid of Falling: Art, Ethics and Avoidance I keep making patterns. Forests of patterns. Kaleidoscopes of creatures. Crowns spinning into infinity. This new crowned eagle t-shirt pattern is bold, rhythmic, a little hypnotic. The kind of shirt that quietly says, I notice things…