#bowelfly

[gachimushi]

Brother Gregor spending his morning in the garden.

[blossompigeon]

IT’S OUT!! IT’S OUT!!!

I was part of an incredible 72 artist strong Art Telephone which spanned the length of 14 months, and it finally concluded recently!! This was hosted by the incredible @bowelfly who did an absolutely amazing job wrangling this massive job! I’ve never been more proud to be part of an artistic project, truly.

Here’s my piece! I ended up drawing and finishing this whilst moving house which was INTERESTING. Despite this, I’m proud of my piece :) I STRONGLY recommend you to go through this telephone RIGHT NOW and look at all the incredible, incredible art. There’s shrimp! There’s bobbitworms! There’s eels! There’s fantastic beasties! Seeing this being revealed live was unforgettable.

[leona-florianova]

For this day of goblin week, I have decided to draw a conga line of @bowelfly 's shrewblins.

[skelizard]

Oh yeah I forgot to post this when they came in but everyone should go n buy @bowelfly's stickers, just sayin'.

[futurebird]

Foolishly bowelfly offered to draw "any bug for $4" so I started asking for ants… and stopped after six to advise them to please raise their prices before it got exploitative.

Just look at these girls!

I resized them to show their very different scales. I love ants so much. Thank you for these drawings.

[polito0]

my part of an art trade w/ @bowelfly ! Trungo :]

[fleshwizard]

Sorry i'm super late but hey !! Weezard !!!

Dude i love your drawings i really wanted to do a weevil since you love them so much i hope you like it !!

hey my birthday is this coming sunday and all of my loved ones and friends are 1000 miles away from me. if you feel like giving me a little birthday treat you could draw for me a weevil wizard to keep me company.

alternatively you could consider giving me $5 to draw you any bug of your choosing so that i can justify buying myself a bottle of fancy liquor. i won't take straight up donations because i'd feel extremely bad about that so i insist that you request a bug drawing if you give me money.

<3

[onenicebugperday]

Cassidine beetle, Elytrogona quatuordecimmaculata, Cassidinae

Found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Photo 1 by pedrogenarorodriguez, 2 by renedurocher,and 3 by franklinhowley

[mineral-vulture]

Attack to @bowelfly featuring Shrewblin!

He attacka with a spoon! Also, yes this is inspired by the Tonberry summon attack from FF8.

[fleshwizard]

Junkbrass

[thecreaturecodex]

Thanks to @bowelfly expanding out into stickers, I now have a sticker of this design! I love it!

Desert Beeple

Image © @bowelfly, accessed at his tumblr here

[For the neural network monsters, I asked some of my friends who are artists if they would design an illustration based on the names. Which turned this into a game of creature telephone. I’m very pleased with how things turned out.]

Desert Beeple CR 6 N Magical Beast This ebony beetle is larger than a camel. Its face is an open cone, like a megaphone, and it gives a cacophonous call.

The caravans and nomads of the desert dread hearing an eerie, atonal honking drifting over the vast expanse, as that indicates that the desert beeple is abroad. A desert beeple is a giant insect of faint intelligence, and its song distracts and confuses those that hear it. Desert beeples are voracious and wandering omnivores, and they happily prey upon the stores carried by merchants and the merchants alike. The jaws of a desert beeple are small and contained within its horn-like musical mouthparts, so unlike many monstrous beetles a desert beeple cannot bite. They instead reduce food to a thick paste by crushing it, and then siphon it into their mouths.

Desert beeples are frequently solitary, as they require plenty of food, but in good conditions they can gather in small social groups, serenading each other with their beeping cries. Oases are particularly tempting targets to desert beeple clusters, and many merchant groups will pay highly to rout these monsters from a conveniently located oasis. A desert beeple stands four feet tall at the shoulder, grows to eight feet long and weighs more than a thousand pounds.

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[gachimushi]

Fishing trip with Brother Gregor

[bunjywunjy]

So I resently saw this post: https://www.tumblr.com/bowelfly/746535166780063744/try-it-i-fucking-dare-you

I have a feeling its a larva of some sorts... but I don't know of what. A fly? A beetle? A BUTTERFLY?

What does it eat?! How does it eat? Those pincers look unusable...

it's an antlion!

they DO eat ants, but the name is a bit of a misnomer- they really should have been called something like ant-pitfall. or maybe ant-sarlacc.

it'll make sense in a sec, promise

see, they do this:

most of the time, the pincers are the only part of them that actually sits above the ground! the rest of them is buried at the bottom of a steep pit they dig that ants and other small insects just kind of helplessly tumble into constantly in a very warner-brothers fashion.

*BLOING! BLOING! BLOING! YEEE-OOOOWTCH!*

so, yeah. they just spend all their larva time being an insect-centered horror movie monster, until they pupate.

and then they turn into these!

yeah. ant-lions are baby lacewings.

you really CAN'T make this shit up, and that's wonderful.

[bedupolker]

Climb time! Feat. @bowelfly's magnificent weevzard, Quercus

[skelizard]

That’s justa buncha @bowelfly‘s Arby!

[slitherbop]

My piece for @bowelfly ‘s huge game of art telephone, THE 2024 GIGAPHONE !