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they/them, artist, adult i like bugs and creatures

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🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 11h ago

For the past few weeks, I've been focusing on personal projects and gifts. I plan to continue for a week or so longer, trying to knock out or at least sort out a bunch of WIPs and ideas. Afterwards, I'd love to do some art trades. If you're interested, keep an eye out for another post when I'm ready

Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms!@explorermoo.com · 13h ago

Lil' thank you gift for my buddy @mooexe.bsky.social for helping me with cassette tape stuff :3 #furryart #mimic #analog

A colored sketch of an anthro mimic chest listening to tapes on a walkman surrounded by analog music

Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 24h ago

Peak Male Performance (Obeza floridana - silly gargoyle of a wasp lad)

Silly orange stubby gargoyle of a wasp on a palmetto frond - his thorax makes him look hunchbacked, and his his abdomen is a weird little triangle on a long petiole which you can barely see behind his hind legs, so it looks like it's just floating back there

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · yesterday

Basilisks: The embodiment of 'WAUGH, outta here' #smaugust #dragon #lizard #reptile #nature #sciart #digitalart #art #animal #science #biology

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a basilisk, or 'Jesus lizard', skedaddling across an isometric chunk of clear, clean lake water. A basilisk is green with blue polka dots, two large ear fins on the head, two sail fins on the back and tail, with a yellow belly, gangly limbs, and brown stripes down the tip of its tail. True to its name, it can straight up run across the surface of open water using its giant muppety feet. I wish I could do that. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 2d ago

keepers and captives and critters [ #flameshadowart #silksong | skrill, imoba, gahlia, First Sinner, roachkeeper, Eva ]

pen sketch page of silksong bugs. there are three skrill in different shapes - neutral, stretched out, and scrunched up. a skrill rides an imoba. two other imoba fly around on the page nearby. there are a few first sinner sketches - one of her standing threateningly with some blades conjured behind her, one of her skittering, and a chibi one with silk strands waving around her. two sketches of gahlia, one with the petals closed and another with the "head" shooting out toward the skittering first sinner. on the bottom are three roachkeepers - two standing menacingly with giant chains at the ready and a third chibi. finally, there's eva in her container that looks like a jukebox. there's also her sylphsong helm symbol to the side.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 2d ago

keepers and captives and critters [ #flameshadowart #silksong | skrill, imoba, gahlia, First Sinner, roachkeeper, Eva ]

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 2d ago

...i just remembered that bsky allows more than 4 images per post now. ive done multiple threads with two parts recently because i didn't remember this. smh. (i don't think it looks the best but it's still easier than multi-post art threads)

Peri @teryyo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Snagged Skein, Chapter 6: The White Song (I) Skein enters the Whiteward and learns what their Silk and Song can do... #art #hollowknight #silksong #secondsentinel archiveofourown.org/works/876195...

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anon asked what Cici would do if she found a stash of thousands of rosaries. [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Cici ] (1/2)

Cici, a silk snipper, enters a room that's filled with rosaries. Red beads hanging on strings from the ceiling, peeking out of lumpy sacks, lying in a dish, and a few scattered on the floor. She looks around with a stunned expression. She says, "What's with this curtain over here? Wh.. Whoa."

She holds a necklace of pearl rosaries. She looks stunned, disbelieving, and there are tears at the corners of her eyes. She mutters,"Holy shit?? I have never held this much money at once in my entire life... Th... these are so pretty."

Some time passes, and now Cici kneels on the floor, slouching forward, still looking somewhat dazed. The pearl rosary necklace is in front of her, and the bags and chest and strings of rosaries are all around her. She thinks, "I could leave... I could just go... Nobody ever... Nobody would..."

The same scene as above, only now some tapping noises coming closer interrupt Cici's thoughts. She twists to face the drawn curtains.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another tumblr ask, this time for one of my favorite HK characters :) [ #flameshadowart #hollowknightoc | Mossy Fool ]

Tumblr ask from tiger-lily-55555: "Hello! I have a question for Mossy Fool: What's a typical day like in the Colosseum for you? Any favourite pass times for between Trials? Wishing you luck in your next fight!"
Mossy Fool waves happily and says, "Hello! I don't fight every day, but that's usually what people mean when they ask me stuff like this so..."
Following are three smaller sketches showing the cycle of the day. First is Mossy facing off against a hulking beetle-like fighter. His voiceover starts, "On a fight day, I fight." The next scene is him sitting in a hot spring pool with a sturdy fool next to him. He's chatting happily while the sturdy fool covers their face and looks very annoyed. The voiceover continues. "And then after that, I heal and hang out with my fellow fighters." A final scene shows him slicing at a stuffed dummy. The voiceover concludes, "And then if I can, I'll do some training to end the day."

A sketch where we're looking over Mossy's shoulder down at the ground where he's laid out his shield, helmet, nail, and a pot of green paint plus a paintbrush. There is ash on the ground around these items. He says, "I like to paint when I'm not fighting! It helps calm me down and feel closer to Unn. My priority is to make sure Unn's symbol on my shield and the rootscript on my helm are restored. Sometimes someone will hang out with me while I do this, but I'm usually alone. I think a lot of the other fools don't like me much... ... I'd be kinda lonely here if I didn't have Unn."

a simpler sketch of him facing the viewer and making a heart shape with his fingers. Screenshotted text reads, "Wishing you luck in your next fight!" to which Mossy responds, "Thank you! I hope you enjoy watching it."

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 5d ago

gouache practice [ #flameshadowart #hollowknight | brumm, carefree melody, kingsoul ]

a textured paper with some simple gouache paintings. on the left are two charms from hollow knight - carefree melody and kingsoul - and on the right is brumm holding up his torch and looking at the fire

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 5d ago

flight, freeze, fight, and fish [ #flameshadowart #silksong | kakri, steelspine kai, worried pilgrim, skarrgard, second sentinel ]

pen sketch page of silksong bugs. kakri and a steelspine kai fly near some coral stalactites. worried pilgrim sits at the first shrine and recounts being saved from a voided bug by second sentinel. a skarrgard calmly sits within a school of floating steelspine kai.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 6d ago

the frog and the fly [ #flameshadowart #silksong | groal the great, scabfly ]

pen sketches of groal the great and scabflies filling the page. some are fairly neutral drawings of the bugs while there are also a bunch of silly ones. groal looking bored and then yawning, a scabfly with a impractically long scarf, groal blepping, groal stretched to have a sausage-like body to fill up space, and groal sticking their tongue out to catch a fly much like a frog would

Salartmander | Commissions OPEN @salartmander.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🖋️ Experimental #commission for the amazing @lieutenantv.bsky.social !! [ #silksong | #silksongoc | #hollowknight | #artcommission ]

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · 6d ago

BEHOLD, HODGEPODGE scrap yarn crochet bead lizard, yahooooooo! [ #flameshadowart #crochet | pattern in reply]

two pictures of a pony bead lizard, but instead of small plastic beads, it's all crocheted yarn. the beads are blue, teal, dull purple, orange, white, and magenta. the "string" that's holding the beads together is a strip of yarn that's pale brown and peach. The first picture shows the lizard hanging from the back of a chair and resting its front half on the seat. the second picture shows a pale-skinned arm holding the lizard up so we have a better view of its head with its arms sticking out.

a picture of the lizard lying on a dark, marbled countertop

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

an oil beetle joins the blue beetle wall (i ran out of the lighter yarn before i finished and nearly ran out of the blue thread too hahaa) [ #flameshadowart #filetcrochet | both patterns by TheCrochetedCocoon www.etsy.com/shop/TheCroc... ]

filet crochet of an oil beetle. the lower third is done in blue yarn while the upper two thirds are lighter blue

the oil beetle crochet piece is now pinned on a navy blue wall next to a stag beetle filet crochet. there's also a colorful plague doctor mask atop a lampshade next to the beetles.

Dimenran (comms open)@dimenran.bsky.social · last wk.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

There was still an aspect of stumbling... [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Trickle, Ensconce ]

Tumblr ask from joshay98 asks: "So how did Trickle stumble upon Ensconce in the first place? Must've gotten pretty lost."
Trickle looks bemused. He says, "N-no? I knew exactly where I was going. M-mostly... I asked around a-and explored a lot and eventually found the signs that I-I knew to look for!"

a silent scene of Trickle standing before the mouth of a cave with a portion of Ensconce's body leading into or out of the cave. He calls out into the tunnel to announce his presence. Little does he know that Ensconce's head end is looming above him, arms out and body bent in readiness to spring forward and grab the silverfish trespasser.

Atlas 🦋 | Working on Comms!@explorermoo.com · last wk.

Commission for @radlad25.bsky.social ! A nice way to spend the evening :3 #furryart #moth #commission

An illustration of an anthro luna moth hanging out on the branch of a tree

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

Anon: "Ensconce; What is your all time favourite thing in your collection?" [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Ensconce ]

Ensconce gives the viewer a side-eye and a dialogue bubble with ellipsis shows up.

Ensconce curls around and reaches to a shelf with a green box. there is also a pinkish bag and a teal vase with some feathers and a drooping stalk of plant.

ensconce holds a yellow-grey rock with green crystals growing out of the top. there's a subtle green glow. enscone looks down at the rock happily

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

My Silksong OCs visit Hallownest (prompt from flownetbug) [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Trickle, Cici, Maúl, Crinum ] 1/2

a loose painting looking down the throat of the cast-off shell in kingdom's edge. trickle the silverfish is a small figure standing before and staring reverently at the maw of the corpse

a painted sketch of Cici and Maul standing in a flooded street under the rain in the City of Tears. the angle is looking down at the bugs with the city's tall towers reflecting in the puddle beneath and around them. cici looks both awed and defeated. maul looks tired

a painted sketch of crinum standing on a ledge overlooking one of the pits of corpses in the Soul Sanctum.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

more character art coming soon. i did some fun pieces today

ぞてぞ @blipbugbug.bsky.social · last wk.

最近のらくがき

菜君 @licaijun99.bsky.social · last wk.

#Artfight2026 The character belongs to @ascalaphid.com

Peri @teryyo.bsky.social · last wk.

Snagged Skein, Chapter 5: A Spool of Silver Skein ascends beyond the land they know, and steps upon their golden stage. #hollowknight #lace #silksong #ao3 archiveofourown.org/works/876195...

Trigaroo @trigaroo.bsky.social · last wk.

cube fable!

NullPointer 🍄@nuiipointer.bsky.social · last wk.

This has been my summer so far #hymenoptera #wasps #dunning-kruger

Dunning-Kruger effect curve about wasp identification.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

Dave is a strange but friendly mystery. He seems to grasp the intention of what's said to him, but actual language comprehension is less certain. [ #flameshadowart | Dave, Spinch ]

Dave, a pale skinned monster with a long body and four primary arms, waves two arms and makes an indistinct sign with one of his other hands. Text in brackets say "Waving!!" and "Hand signs!!" Spinch, a purple and blue cat-like creature, looks unamused as it adds with its own hand sign, "The only problem is... his gestures and signs are gibberish."

"And if you try to read his mind, you'll just get a headache," Spinch continues. Dave now leans over Spinch and holds it up onto its hind legs. He has some hearts around his head as he looks at Spinch and pokes its cheek with one finger. Swirling around the two characters are abstract shapes and colors that might indicate thoughts or intentions coming from Dave. Spinch winces with a headache.

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

Bothering Flame's OCs Event because I have both the time and energy to draw responses, and it's fun! While this event is mostly for tumblr, I will mirror the art/short answers here. If you'd like to interact with one of my OCs here, reply to this post. OC Roster: toyhou.se/flame-shadow...

a shaded sketch of my currently designed silksong ocs. in the front are cici and maul. behind and to the left are ensconce and trickle. to the right are honeysuckle riding a squit steed and crinum looking distrustfully at the greymoor bugs

🔥 Flame 🔥@flame-shadow.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm doing a character ask event on tumblr. Local swamp horsegirl gets a question about hotland horses. [ #flameshadowart #silksongoc | Honeysuckle, Crinum ]

A snip of a tumblr ask from twilit-beast which asks, "How does/would Honeysuckle feel about hardbone hoppers?" followed by a sketch of a young stilkin OC, Honeysuckle, looking excited and thoughtful as she says, "Cricri told me about them! They're so sturdy and hardy and can hop across really hot rocks as long as they're not liquid hot (whatever that means...) And they make hard thumps when they land on the ground!"

Honeysuckle continues talking, "Ohmygosh, I wish we had them here." A pause. "Well, I think they'd drown here, actually, so maybe not."
There is a two-sketch sequence of a hardbone hopper landing on a floating platform and then crashing through it into the muckmaggot water. Honeysuckle looks uncomfortable.

Crinum, a stilkin trapper, snickers and adds his thoughts: "I doubt you could even tame one. The bigger ones are vicious and will kick you to death easily." This is accompanied by an imagined scene of a hardbone hopper elder kicking Honeysuckle who goes spinning comically into the air from the force.
Out of the imagined scene, Honeysuckle protests vehemently, "They'll kick YOU to death because you're a meanie-head! They'd all LOVE me so much!!"