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Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Tiny inklings project is well underway ✒🔍🕯
(all are under 2.5x2.5 inches)

Many tiny square ink drawings stren on a desk

November 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Pym, just woken from a nap.
#guineapig

Tri-colour abyssinian guinea pig looking quizzical

November 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

As the days grow dimmer, here are 15 free downloads of my album "Nocturne (Soundtrack for an Invisible Film)"

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redeem: aviengel.bandcamp.com/yum

Album cover featuring a black and white image of a moth on a white background. Handwritten lettering reads "Nocturne (soundtrack for an invisible film) Avi C. Engel

October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

delicate balance

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#artbyhumans #zendrawing #inkart #inkdrawing

Sinuous ink creature who appears to be juggling 2 orbs

October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

a buried river

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#artbyhumans #originalart #inkart #zendrawing #birds #drawing

Abstract ink drawing evoking water and birds

October 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

flowering acrobat

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#art #artbyhumans #drawnbyhand #inkart #horse #flowers #psychedelic #zendrawing

Ink drawing of an abstract organic creature walking on its hands with one eye, a horse protruding from a branch, and a flower-like structure on its body

October 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Mouse in lounge position ❤

#guineapigs #rescueguineapig #cavy

Short-haired fawn & cream coloured guinea pig lounges and looks into the camera

October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Downstream, blue

(brushpen, cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#zendrawing #inkart #artbyhumans

Abstract ink drawing featuring a downward facing creature - suggestion of birds, flowers, and petals are evoked but remain amorphous

October 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Mouse the guinea pig 💖

#guineapig #cavy #meerschweinchen

Short haired fawn and cream coloured guinea pig snuggling in my flannel shirt

October 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Baked a vegan pistachio rosewater cake yesterday for my partner's birthday. Turned out not at all as I expected, but still nice ⚘

Bundt cake sprinkled with rosepetals and pistachios

October 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Bog meditation

(brush pen + cerberus ink by octopus fluids)

#artbyhumans #bog #marsh #zendrawing #psychedelic #folkart #handdrawn

Ink drawing in deep blue of an organic form with lots of undulating texture. There is an eye at the centre, two bird-like crearures rising up on the left, and some sort of head rising up on the right

October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Small piece of sky (with eyes) wanders the garden

#art #inkart #artbyhumans

Colourful ink drawing of a creature walking through a flowerbed. There is a lot of texture surrounding the creature but its body is mostly negative space

October 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Tiny landscapes
of life and decay
quell disquiet

Orange lichens on a fallen branch, dead leaves all around

October 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

Jack of Diamonds

October 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

There are still a bunch of these ink-art chapbooks left. Each one comes with an album download as well:

aviengel.bandcamp.com/merch/too-ma...

(Working on pieces for a new zine atm)

#zine #originalart #materialculture #tinybook #monsters #zendrawing #formisemptiness #chapbook #bandcampfriday

my hand holding an ink art chapbook open - features black ink drawings on each page - one is a swamp creature with swans emerging from their head, the other is a little weird sprite playing with a yoyo

my hand holding the "Too Many Souls" ink art chapbook, flanked by 2 guitars

October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

another dancing sprout

#inkart #weirdbotany #folkart #psychedelic

Ink drawing of an organic forest-sprite type creature dancing, a larger face appears in the negative space as well

September 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

A happy wanderer

#inkartwork #artbyhumans #brushstrokes #brushpen #originalart #birds #art

Brush pen drawing of a spindly-legged wood sprite walking through grass, two birds fly on either side of them

September 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

wonky mer-creature under a sleeping moon

#inkart #drawanyway #artbyhumans #brushpen

ink drawing of a squiggly cartoon creature perched on a tiny island under a full moon - the moon has a sleeping face

September 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

graceless gazelle

#inkdrawing #art #artbyhumans #brushstrokes

Ink drawing of a round and bewildered looking gazelle-like creature

September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

dancing sprout

#inkdrawing #art #botanical #abstract #brushstrokes #dance #originalart

Highly textured ink drawing that evokes roots and organic textures and appears to be dancing

September 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

vexed rodent

#inkdrawing #art #rodent

September 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM

Avi C. Engel

@aviengel.bsky.social

This year I learned that I enjoy a good spy thriller, even though I tend to take in the atmosphere more than the plot. One of my favourites was Three Days of the Condor. RIP Robert Redford.