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ilikebugs.bsky.social
Bugs Like Kate
@ilikebugs.bsky.social
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Creature drawer, pixel pusher, bi nonmonogamous enby in the northeast. Mostly a personal account with some Kestrop Studio thrown in.

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ilikebugs.bsky.social
Saw my first jumping spider of the year yesterday! This little shy baby let me get a few photos before hiding back in the fence post. Possibly Genus Pseudeuophrys. #invertfest #salticidae #jumpingspider #arachnerd
Small brown and tan jumping spider viewed from the top Small brown and tan jumping spider from a three-quarter front view. He's sitting in a crevice in a fencepost.
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Hey hey it's a fuzzy bee day! Here are some bumblebees to kick off #invertfest!
Big fuzzy bumblebee in a light purple azalea flower, side view Big fuzzy bumblebee in a light purple azalea flower, top view
April 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Here, take this.
February 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
It's the same picture. #dontbesuspicious #raccoon #pizza #trashpanda #animalart #lifeimitatesart
Photo of me, light skinned round faced person with a curly short mohawk and bright red-pink hair, rainbow glasses and a wide eyed expression. I'm holding a piece of pizza with both hands in front of me. Collaged on top of the photo is one of my drawings: a cartoon raccoon with a similar wide eyed expression holding a piece of pizza in front of them.
February 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Last two of the night. Thanks for following along! #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomics
Caption: 8:00 p.m. ish Picture: black and white sketch of a very fluffy Quaker parrot looking excitedly at a baguette being offered to her by a hand coming up from the bottom of the frame Speech bubble: for me??? Behind the bird in bubble letters it says floof Caption next to the bird is (She did not eat the whole bread much to her disappointment)
February 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Yoshi lets Gizmo the Quaker parrot "floss" her "teeth" (supervised). But what if she had teeth teeth? No. Then we found terrifying berries. #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics
Caption 5:50 p.m. ish Gizmo with flosser. Picture: Black and white digital sketch of a Quaker parrot holding a floss pic in her foot. Caption: Gizmo with teeth to floss? Nah. Picture: Black and white digital sketch of a Quaker parrot holding a floss pic in her foot but now she has teeth. Caption 7:00 p.m. ish trader Joe's run with Yoshi Speech bubble winter strawberries? That's just ellipsis terrifying. Picture light-skinned person with side shave and long and curly hair. They are wearing glasses looking worried at a container of white strawberries. Caption: sad beige strawberries for sad beige people Picture: me, light skin person with side shave and curly short hair wearing glasses looking worried at the white strawberries. . Caption: white strawberries (wtf?)
February 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Interiors, landscapes, and backgrounds are not my forte so consider this a practice!
Caption: 4:45pm-ish Goin' downtown to see Yoshi Sketch at the top of stairs of a subway station, looking down. A sign near the top says Red Line To Trains
February 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
A theeefer! (Plus the hardest thing about getting new merch to the shop)
Caption: 2:10pm-ish Let's walk in the frigid cold! (But the sun is out so that's cool) Three images: a Sketched picture of an American Robin on a branch saying it's cold! Under is a speech bubble, Hi Robin! Then, a snow person with twig arms and eyebrows and a line mouth with the caption Tiny Angry Snowperson and a measurement line that reads 1ft. Finally a tree limb with wiggly blobs on it with a finger pointing toward it from off the page. A speech bubble: ooh look, jelly fungus! Caption: 2:45pmish Gabby and I did a glass fusion workshop last weekend! Two sketched tiles, on the left a creature that looks like an apple holding a star with a sprout coming out the top. Below this tile: Gabby's. The other tile is a pigeon sitting with its head looking back over its shoulder toward a heart. Below that tile: mine (obvs) Caption: I picked up our fired pieces Caption: 3:00-ish Dripping off merch at a local shop! Danger lurks around every display of all the cute things! Image: a door with open sign. The back of a person with hat, coat, mittens on, pushing the door. In the corner: Success! I bought 1 sticker on a sticker of a magpie with a ring on its leg.
February 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
I know the point of a 5-line-a-day journal is to write those five lines...each day. Also this one took me longer to draw because I had to remind myself I am actually right-handed.
Caption: 12:30-ish. Updating my 5-year journal - write 5 lines a day. Digital pencil sketch of me, round face, side curly short mohawk, wearing a hoodie. Holding a black pen, updating a small chunky journal. My phone sits next to me. Phone label: Calendar, photos and chats to remind me what I did... Label next to my brain: Memory Disk is full
February 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
The easier part: pack the order.
Caption: 11:40-ish: Watching it snow while I pack cards and stickers to take to a shop nearby. Digital pencil sketch of my desk, on the monitor is a sketchy spreadsheet. The monitor itself has a bee sticker on it and googly eyes. Under the monitor on the desk is a stack of cards, a stack of stickers, an envelope, and a sleeve. Also there is a mouse and a really cool penguin cutter thing from the MOMA. Next to the desk is a window, and through the blinds you can see a VERY sketchy view of some trees, railings to a porch, and big snowflakes.
February 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
This should read from like 9:30 to 11:00am, but one should probably not draw a screen for three whole panels...
#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics
Caption: 10:15AM-ish? Morning YouTube videos with Joel! We call this "Bucket Time" Black and white digital sketch. My partner Joel, white man with dark floppy hair and a light beard in profile sitting in a cushy desk chair. In front of him is a laptop, on the screen two simply drawn narwhals crossing tusks. A waterbottle is next to the laptop. A caption with an arrow pointing to the laptop reads "Is narwhal tusking a thing?"
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Hourly comics day is here!!!! Will be posting in this thread. #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2025 #hourlycomics 🧵
Caption: 9:30am Do I draw a variation of this every year? Black and white digital sketch of Puck, my black cat, with his paw on my cereal bowl. Sketch of me with short curly mohawk and roundish glasses wearing a hoodie, holding cereal bowl with one hand and spoon in other. Speech bubble from Puck says Dis... Dis for me? Speech bubble from me says No.
February 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year: #hourlycomicsday! I'll be posting here in a thread. Excited to see who else here participates! #hourlycomics #hourlycomicsday2025
A black and white pen and ink cartoon drawing of my head and neck - I have a round head, side curly mohawk, roundish big glasses and a massive open-mouthed smile. Above me in a speech bubble: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. I have a hand over a banner that reads HOURLY COMICS and 2025 is written below the banner. The sketchbook is resting on a blanket cropped out of frame but also at the bottom of the sketch rests the pencil and pen I did it with. I am not excited or anything.
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Trying out new acrylic markers with some colorful pigeons and reminding myself that I need to make more time for play! #pigeons #pigeonart #animalart #birdart
Acrylic markers on a desk, on top is a picture done with acrylic markers of cartoony colorful pigeons. Between the pigeons are bread products. In the corner it says pigeons, my loves.
January 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
What the world needs now
Is bugs sweet bugs
#bugphotos #letsgobugging #insects #insectphotos #parody
Close-up photo of an Eastern Tent Caterpillar moth with wings raised on the tip of my finger. The moth is very fuzzy and has feathery wings. Close-up photo of a longhorn bee on a yellow flower. The bee is very fuzzy. Close-up of a very light green flatid planthopper on a wooden railing. Its eyes make it look a little like a cartoon. Close-up of a blow fly (related to house flies) on a goldenrod blossom. Profile view. Its front two legs are up and it looks like it's rearing like a horse.
January 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Due to this pattern on my CV, I'm due for another certification this year! What takes less than a year to get that I should clearly do? Wrong answers preferred ;)
#lifelonglearning #updatingmyresume #adultlearner #wronganswersonly
The education portion of my CV, which shows the following: Education Mass. College of Art and Design Certificate in Graphic Design, 2020 Lesley Univeristy MFA in Creative Writing, 2010 Denison University BA in Creative Writing, 2005
January 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
This has been a greeting card for two years (but FOR WHAT OCCASION???) and I finally gave the dumpster a setting to make it prints. Tag yourself! I'm the rat with the pepper.
#dontbesuspicious #pigeons #rat #raccoons #animalart
Cartoony style animal scene! A dumpster against a dirty brick wall. Half the dumpster is closed and on top sits a mostly empty pizza box. In front of the box stands a shocked looking rat with a slice of green pepper. Next to the box lounges a very stuffed looking raccoon, staring into the void. Out of the open half of the dumpster comes another raccoon, holding a piece of pizza. A third raccoon's bottom half can be seen flailing upside down from a pile of trash bags behind it. In front of the dumpster, two pigeons peck at pizza toppings. Everyone looks shocked. Graffiti on the dumpster says Don't Be Suspicious!
January 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
During two 6-hour drives this holiday season, Dad and I counted hawks. 19 total in three days, noted between naps. I also identified some kind of woodpecker, lots of pigeons and starlings, and several smaller raptors as we sped by.

#birder #birdnerd #birdcomic #comic #naturecomic
A six-panel black and white comic. Panel 1: Spans the top of the page, shows a flat midwestern rural landscape of trees in the background, fields and a shed in the middle ground, and one leafless tree and a fence in the foreground. A red-tailed hawk sits on one of the fence posts. Off to the side comes a speech bubble: ONE! Panel 2: A square panel of houses silhouetting the background. In the middle ground is a leafless tree with a red-tailed hawk sitting in one of the middle branches. One of the branches hangs over a wall, which is in the foreground. This is the kind of wall that divides neighborhoods from the sound of the highway. The speech bubble coming from off to the side says Two! Panel 3: In the background, mostly sky with whispy clouds. We see the tops of leafless and evergreen trees at the bottom of the panel. In the middle of the panel, a soaring hawk. The speech off the side says Seven! Panel 4: In the background, a leafless tree and a hawk swooping from one branch to another. In the middle ground, a sign that partially says "Rest area" with a sign pointing to the left. In the foreground, two figures, talking. Me, with a short mohawk up in a bun and dark jacket, faces away toward the tree and points. The other figure, Dad, Looks toward me. He has darker short hair and wears glasses and a light colored hoodie. I say, "Nine!" he says, "How did you see that?" I reply, "It moved!" Panel 5: A sky starting to darken with a few stars. Background trees, farther away now. A darkening field. A closer-up fencepost, on it sitting a closer-up hawk more in detail. Eleven! I shout. Panel 6: In the background, only gray sky. The underside of a hawk takes up almost the whole panel. It's starting to pass over behind a building. Off-panel, I say, "Eighteen!" and Dad says, "Wow that one was flying low!"
January 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
It's finally time to open the 24th little door of our #ArtAdventCalendar! Behind it comes bounding out a baby goat, excited to wish you SEASONS BLEATINGS! #goat #babygoat #greetingcarddesign #animalart
illustration for a holiday card. At the top is a red ribbon with the words seasons bleatings in it. Below that is a baby goat mid-leap, eyes closed and mouth open in a joyful expression, with a wreath around his head.
December 25, 2024 at 6:15 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
2 pieces of bird art for days 22 and 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar! The warblers played their northeastern US tour this summer, it was great so I had to draw them a show poster (art featured in one of my bird zines). Also a parrot I made my dad a few years ago.
A digital drawing of three cartoony migratory birds - warblers - playing in a rock band. The black and white warbler spins his drumsticks behind a drum kit with The Warblers on the bass drum. On the bass guitar is the yellow rumped warbler. Singing at a microphone is the yellow warbler. Labels with their names are next to their heads. A vector, flat-style illustration of a scarlet macae sitting on a branch. Around it are blue and green jungle plants. The print is matted with bright red in a bright blue frame.
December 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Some suspicious looking characters for #ArtAdventCalendar day 21! More 2-charm shrinky dink earrings. Love making these even though they take forever and haven't sold as much. #handmadejewelry #poscamarkers #uvresin #shrinkydinks
A pair of dangly earrings on a light wood desktop. The top charms are cartoony raccoons, mostly heads with arms coming out the bottom. The raccoon's hands are connected to another earring charm, a half-eaten piece of pizza. Next to the earrings partially cropped out are a blue posca acrylic marker and a pair of tweezers.
December 22, 2024 at 4:04 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
The 20th tiny door opens for #ArtAdventCalendar to give you a... Tomato Wombat! Or Wombato! They have square seeds. #animalmashup #wombat #tomato
A digital painting of a wombat made out of tomatoes. Or, more accurately, some wombat-shaped tomatoes. In green and white lettering behind it says Wombato
December 21, 2024 at 1:22 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 19, sketch I did for my mom years ago, based on a photo of me in the Boston Public Gardens long before I lived here. (In the area, not in the Gardens.) I checked the other day and the ducks are all wearing winter hats and scarves to stay warm! #makewayforducklings #boston
Pencil sketch cutout on a piece of textured blue cardstock. Sketch is of me at about 7, awkwardly bending to hug a bronze mallard duck statue. I have shoulder length hair which is covering the ducks head. Behind the mama duck are 5 baby ducks visible.
December 20, 2024 at 4:21 AM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
I love random drawing prompts so have made several large wheels on spinthewheel.io. This morning I made a vegetable wheel to go along with my animal wheel, which spawned today’s #ArtAdventCalendar post: Turnip the Bass!
#animalmashup #turnip #bassfish #drawingprompt
A digital illustration of a bass fish mashed up with a turnip. It’s shaped like a bass jumping with its mouth open but its body is the pink and white color of a turnip, with turnip leaves for its fins. Behind the fish are the words turnip the bass.
December 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
ilikebugs.bsky.social
Strolling through the leaves is the subject of #ArtAdventCalendar day 17, a chill vibes goose. #animalart #birdart
Digital illustration of a cartoony goose wearing a red and white striped scarf and blue jean jacket. The jacket is covered with enamel pins and buttons. They are strolling through a park with autumn leaves and trees falling around them. They're looking up with their eyes closed and their hands in their pockets, looking calm.
December 18, 2024 at 1:34 AM