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Ian Allen Bird
@ianallenbird.bsky.social
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he/him 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
I do art sometimes (raising money for a new tablet on ko-fi!)
Find me on Tumblr, occasionally Twitch, and Ko-fi @IanAllenBird, or my art Tumblr @IanBirdArt
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Doodled some bugs
#art #silksong
A set of pencil on paper doodles of various characters from Silksong. Those characters are a flea, a beastling, Zuzu, Nuu, two drawings of Sherma, Fayforn, and Pilby. The beastling is purring, the flea is awoo-ing, one of the Shermas is sleeping, and Nuu is Nuu-ing.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I forgot to post this, I made it a friend
#crochet #art
The rainbow dragon from above alongside a new, crocheted, pink, blue, and white dragon. They are laying nose to nose and tail to tail so that they form a heart.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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My actual commissions are closed until I can replace it, but for every $5 you donate, I'll do a simple pencil sketch of an animal of your choice! Just message me on Tumblr, Bluesky, or Ko-fi with your request and tell me how & where to mention you. (Reference images appreciated, no AI.)

Example:
A sketchbook page with drawings of a snail, a horse stick figure, a sea bunny, a sea pig, a cat head, a goat in a sweater jumping over a shrew and a millipede, and a wallaby with a joey in its pouch.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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made a cute little dragon fidget toy :3

(Pattern from: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...)
a crocheted rainbow dragon. its body is a spiral, so you can twist it around as a fidget toy. the crocheted dragon is now twisted up in a circle, its head is upside down and looking into the camera. the dragon is standing upright on its hind legs, supported in the front by its head resting on the ground.
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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an assortment of drawings I don't feel like making their own posts

#art #artistsonbluesky #mspaint
ms paint drawing of a person's head. they have wiggly watery eyes, a wiggly frown, a mullet, and a turtleneck. text reads, "World's Saddest So-and-So". ms paint drawing. a field of lavender flowers below a mostly cloudy sky. there is a fog on the ground, covering the field. ms paint drawing. a rat man with his hands in the air, shrugging. his expression is apologetic. he is wearing a purple long-sleeved shirt, jeans with a belt, and cowboy boots. text reads "WHEN THE — THE GUY DOESN'T KNOW".
August 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I call this "bug tantrum. like if a guy (me) was a bug (but big like gregor samsa) and threw a bug tantrum (because of the brain disorders)" and "me when there's one more freaking Thing to deal with"

#art
an ms paint drawing of a weird bug with a cat's head rolling around back and forth on its back. the weird bug with the cat's head standing upright, followed by the same bug but now it has angry eyebrows and giant beetle-like mandibles.
August 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I made the shimp a hat, btw
An orange crocheted shrimp wearing a baby blue crocheted hat. The shrimp sits next to Orzo, a blue crocheted dinosaur wearing an orange witch hat.
July 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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MS Paint drawing of a snail eating a 4 leaf clover, with a slime trail behind it. Text says "Goo Luck" in wiggly letters.
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Today I made a shimp.

(Pattern from GheeBeans Crafty on Ravelry, www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...)
An orange crocheted shrimp amigurumi, viewed from the side. The same shrimp, from above. The same shrimp's face.
June 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Two acorn weevils that I didn't quite finish.

(Link to reference photos because they're really good bug pics www.reddit.com/r/weeviltime...)

#art #bugs #weevils
An MS Paint drawing of an acorn weevil, from the side, facing right, standing on a plant. It is entirely flat colors. Another MS Paint drawing of an acorn weevil. This one is head-on and has more layered colors.
February 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Attention Artists!
QRP and show off the style of your art!

I've mostly been doing MS Paint stuff like the first piece lately but I dabble.
MS Paint drawing of a long black millipede, with little red legs and antennae. The background is green leafy shapes on flat brown. Labelled American Giant Millipede. Digital artwork, a Mother's Day card. A blue and black wyrm in flight takes up the middle of the card. Three large red flowers with white tips sit in front of the wyrm, partially covering its tail. The text "Happy Mother's Day" is written at the bottom. The background is pink-purple clouds. A digital painting of a seagull standing on a man's head, looking out across the ocean at the moon. Done in a angular, polygonal style to emulate a certain painting from the show Our Flag Means Death. A digital drawing of a creature that has one eye, two large bird-like beaks on opposite sides of the head, and a humanoid hand with 6 fingers as its lower half. One beak appears to have a smile and the other a frown.
February 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I'm practicing bugs today <3 Here's an American Giant Millipede and a Woolly Bear Caterpillar.
MS Paint drawing of a long black millipede, with little red legs and antennae. The background is green leafy shapes on flat brown. Labelled American Giant Millipede. An MS Paint drawing of a fuzzy black and orange caterpillar. Labelled Woolly Bear Caterpillar.
February 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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birb practice
An MS Paint drawing of a black-capped chickadee, assuming I identified it correctly. It's a bird, either way.
February 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Hey folks! I'm opening up 5 commission slots for $25 MS Paint Pet Portraits!

See details over at my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ianallenbird...
An MS Paint drawing of a color-point cat, in front of a red heart on an orange background. An MS Paint drawing of a tortoiseshell cat, in front of green bubbles on a yellow background. An MS Paint drawing of a grey pig, in front of yellow stars on a blue background.
February 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Made a big hat for Orzo (pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...)
A crocheted dino wearing a crocheted trans cape and a big orange crocheted hat. The hat has green and gold whip stitches around the brim, and green cross stitches up the front. The hat is angled to show off one of the dino's eyes and cover the other. The same objects, zoomed in on the gold and green whip stitches. The same objects, from the other side, showing off the cross stitching. The hat is now sitting beside the dino, to demonstrate that the hat is taller by maybe an inch.
December 20, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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she's just like if a cat was shaped like this
an ms paint drawing of Panasonic, the tortie cat from the post I'm replying to
November 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Please accept this ms paint mouse drawing of a beach and then take me to a beach at your earliest convenience thank you
An MS Paint drawing of waves gently washing onto a beach. Signed Ian Allen Bird 11/19/24.
November 20, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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My entry for the current Desert Bus art challenge (A Day in the Life of Deirdre) and a second (better?) version I thought of immediately after sending in the first.
An MS Paint drawing of the four Desert Bus shift banners, with the logos replaced by a black orb with a glowing red eye. The same set of banners, except the third banner has been edited slightly. Instead of a red eye with a white moon along the edge, it is now fully black with a red moon.
November 13, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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I don't play MTG but I love Graham Yarrington's art on the card Relentless Rats so for today's practice I redrew it.
An MS Paint drawing of a rat. It has a large red outline around its white eye, a rainbow gradient on its neck and ears, and a colorful cloak. There's a rainbow of hearts floating around it. Signed I.A.B. 11/12/24. The rat is a redraw of a piece of art from Graham Yarrington.
November 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Tonight's efforts toward drawing more often.
A digital drawing done in MS Paint. A field in three shades of green, a sky in three shades of blue. There are a few grey and white clouds in the sky. Signed Ian Allen Bird 11/11/24.
November 12, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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I'm trying to work my way back up to regularly drawing, so here's some Desert Bus fanart.
An MS Paint digital drawing of a bus driving through the desert, passing by a stop sign. There is an orb with a glowing red button standing by the stop sign, confused. Signed 11/9/24.
November 10, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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I love my round boy Kepler
A pencil drawing of my cat sleeping, curled up into a ball with his paw covering his nose. Captioned "Mr. Bep 11/2/24."
November 3, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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There was a tumblr post where everyone was making fanart of this hollow knight guy so I did it too
A mushroom enemy from hollow knight, its mouth open wide and its arms in the air. It is captioned WA WAWOWOWOWOWO. Done in MS Paint using a mouse.
September 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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today I saw John Carpenter's The Thing for the first time
A screenshot from the website Letterboxd. A review of the movie The Thing which reads, "hell yeah fuck yeah look at that Thing," followed by several blank lines and then continues, "but watch out!" The review is 5 stars and favorited.
August 8, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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As of yesterday, Orzo has a cape.
The amigurumi dinosaur is now wearing a pink, white, and blue crocheted cape, with a high collar. The cape from the back.
June 22, 2024 at 10:30 PM