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Creature spotlight: canids

IDs in alt text - how many can you guess? :-)

This is a collection of creatures originally drawn for my sticker club. Learn more and see more of my work here!

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Joe Kavik, Inuit artist, Bird, ND

Stone

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Love you like a moth loves the flame

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Learning about teeth

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owls + apples 🍎

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Pictish Boar Symbol, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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Final Days of fish february !! You can now get the original paintings on my Ko-Fi if you are interested !

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these rubber beluga charms are on sale! these were regrettably one of my worst sellers (RIP) and i have so many leftover - help me make room for stock of new products this year!

they are soft, smooth and bendable and won’t scratch or chip any other items on your bag or keychain :)

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cicada relief print :)

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It’s a pity we don’t see many female werewolves, considering that are many parallels between lycanthropy and womanhood. The rage, the moon cycle transformation, the blood, the pack protection. The lack of werewomen obviously come from an inability to depict women as hairy dirty monsters, and from the misunderstanding of alpha/pack relations. Lycanthropy breaks the societal mould of the ideal feminine woman, just like vampirism breaks the mould of the manly male.

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Jelly cycle, gamblin ink on kitakata paper, hand pressed

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I love the kind of books that are written from the perspective of a completely ordinary animal, telling a story of their ordinary life, painstakingly researched to be as close to nature as possible, save for being written out in a language that humans understand. The challenge is always in how much the author tries to anthrophormise the animals, I especially hate when they're given humanlike ideas of love and romance. I'm more down for them having their own bizarre religion than them having stable, monogamous romantic relationships if the subject animal does not actually do that in nature. Like rather give me a story about a completely regular deer buck who observes the beginning of rut like

It's starting to be that time of the year when I become stupid. I hope I won't get killed or injured this year from doing anything idiotic. Hey who the fuck is that guy, get the fuck off my turf.