[that's scary] aaaaaa it's spooky season 🍂💀🍁

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Because cats + pumpkins = ❤️: This is Bat-Erdene, a manul or Pallas' cat at Lakeland Wildlife Oasis near Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England. They put some ground meat in the pumpkin, which Batty tried to take into his office, but didn't measure the door width first. Passion overcame reason this day. 😿🎃

October otters (commissioned) [Id 1 to 3 : Wood carved standing otters, near a carving knife, on a workbench. Some part of the fur is paint in brown, eyes are black with two white dots and one grey line. Muzzle is black. Other parts are bare wood.]

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After observers lawfully filmed ICE in a public parking lot, the agents followed their car, boxed them in, and slashed their tire in retaliation. The observers bravely caught the whole thing on video.

The mantis is called the 'rice-pounding grasshopper' in Thailand (ตั๊กแตนตำข้าว), from the motion of its raptorial forelegs resembling the traditional manner of pounding rice to remove the husks. This one was drawn with this very brush.

Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a mantis perching on a small, sparse shrub. Photographed with a penny and the fine traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with, the detail is tiny and intricate. The mantis can fit onto the penny itself.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

478 black-and-white doodles of bony fishes. The first fish is a coelacanth; the last an ocean sunfish.