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Liz Butler
@lizlagomorph.bsky.social
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Illustrator and future museum ghost.
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Happy 2-year anniversary to Mona, the most perfect beast. (Those other families gave you up because they couldn't handle your magnificence.) I love you so much it's stupid. 🐰
A photo of a Netherland dwarf black otter rabbit. The animal faces the camera. She is in a pen with her blanket and belongings. A photo of a Netherland dwarf black otter rabbit. She is almost entirely covered by a blue blanket; just her nose is visible. A photo of a Netherland dwarf black otter rabbit. She is asleep is the corner of a pen and her back conforms closely to the 90-degree angle of the corner. A photo of a Netherland dwarf black otter rabbit. She is in a box and has a surprised look on her face.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Art train time! 🚋

Next stops if people want to do it. ✨
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A sketch of a red tailed catfish. The drawing is mostly monochromatic blue, but the tail and back fins are orange. A sketch of a whale shark. The shark is blue and purple while the background is a flat, light blue. A sketch of a yellow-eyed penguin, showing the head. The background is flat black. A sketch of a wolf, snarling with its head lowered. The background is sketchy black and brown.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A little nurse shark to celebrate Ava's first #SundayFishSketch.
A sketch of a young nurse shark in shades of green.
October 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 30: Dream
Northern white rhinos are functionally extinct. Hope for their future may rest with Southern white rhinos someday carrying their calves - now embryos in storage.
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#rhinoceros #wildlife #animalart #sketchbook
An illustration of a white rhinoceros in shades of pink. The animal is walking and shown in profile.
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 28: Harvest
A freshly caught brown trout.
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#fish #browntrout #gamefishing #gamefish #sketchbook #art
An illustration of a brown trout. The head and mid-body of the fish are shown on a cream coloured background.
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 26: Forage
All rose hips are edible (but be careful in your preparation). From a photo by Guilhem Vellut.
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#botany #botanicalillustration #roses #garden #sketchbook #art
An illustration of a single rose hip attached to a small branch with leaves. The colours are simple - red, green, and yellow ochre.
September 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 25: Tireless
Przewalski’s horse has been the focus of intense conservation and captive breeding programs. The horses once again range the Asian steppe.
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#wildhorses #equine #sketchbook #art #horse
An illustration of a Przewalski’s horse standing with its head and neck in a relaxed pose. The horse is drawn in yellows and oranges. The legs of the horse disappear into the white background, into a texture that resembles grass.
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 24: Numbered
A sea otter with ID tags.
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#seaotter #marinemammal #sketchbook #illustration
An illustration of a sea otter floating on its back, on water. The illustration uses playful colours and blue outlines.
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 23: Scouting
Working dogs use their noses to find target species during conservation projects.
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#beagle #dogs #sketchbook #drawing
An illustration of a beagle, walking with its nose to the ground. The illustration is simple, with blues taking the place of dark colours on the dog. The background is flat beige.
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#SicArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship
A field scientist collects data from an evening grosbeak.
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#sciart #scicomm #nature #sketchbook
An illustration of a pair of hands holding a small song bird. One of the bird’s wings is held, stretched out. The illustration uses shades of blue and beige.
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 21: Reef 🐠
An orange shoulder tang.
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#tropicalfish #aquarium #sketchbook
An illustration of an orange shoulder tang fish. The drawing is done in pastel shades of peach and purple. The fish has a surprised look, as its eye glances back.
September 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial
The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas.
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#orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch
An illustration of two orca whales spy hopping - looking above the waterline with their heads in the air. The whales are dark blue and appear on a simplified background.
September 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 19: Depths
A diver swims behind a surfacing sperm whale. Sperm whales are the 3rd deepest-diving mammal.
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#whales #whale #ocean #sketchbook 🐳
A mixed media illustration of a woman diver swimming behind a sperm whale. The whole drawing is completed in monochromatic indigo blue.
September 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 18: Cenote
A Mayan tetra, from a photo by Marco Endruweit.
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#FishArt #tetra #wildlife #sketchbook
A mixed media illustration of a Mayan tetra fish. The fish lays on a mauve background.
September 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 17: Trawl
A Belgian fisherman (garnaalvisser) uses a draft horse to catch shrimp.
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#drafthorse #horseart #sketchbook
An illustration of a man riding a draft horse, which is carrying the tack and baskets used in traditional shrimp fishing. The image of the man and horse is completed in indigo blues. The background is a flat, off-white.
September 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift
Atlantic rock crabs are new arrivals to the Greenland-Scotland ocean ridge. From a photo by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 🦀
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#sciart #invertebrate #arthropod #crab
An illustration of an Atlantic rock crab. The crab is a monochromatic orange on a solid black background.
September 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 15: Spawning
Sockeye salmon undergo colourful transformation.
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#SciArt #salmon #fish #sketchbook
An illustration of a sockeye salmon in its characteristic red and green spawning colours. The background of the image is a pale green.
September 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 14: Mimic
A mimic filefish, from a photo by Francois Libert.

These devious nuggets mimic the poisonous saddled pufferfish.
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#sciart #fish #aquarium
A mixed media illustration of a mimic filefish. The fish is set against a bright purple background.
September 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 13: Bottleneck
Wisent herds have been reintroduced to Eurasia and now number in the thousands. All living animals are descended from 12 individuals.
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#SciArt #wisent #wildlife #conservation #sketchbook
A mixed media drawing of a wisent and her nursing calf. The wisent are both shown in shades of brown, with blue extremities.
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 12: Wandering
Gulls are found worldwide. Most species migrate with changing seasons.
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#sciart #seagull #seabirds #aves #birds #sketchbook #illustration
A mixed media illustration of a seagull as it takes off in flight. The image is completed in pale blues, with yellow highlights on the bird’s beak, eye, and legs.
September 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 11: Venomous
A Mojave rattlesnake. 🐍
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#SciArt #rattlesnake #snake #illustration
A mixed media illustration of a rattlesnake. The snake’s head is in the centre of the image and it coils towards the bottom left corner. The snake’s head is yellow while the body and background are completed in purples.
September 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 10: Tawny
A nyala doe, grazing.
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#sciart #antelope #wildlife #animalart
A mixed media illustration of a nyala antelope, neck bent down as if to eat grass. The Illustration is sketchy and a monochromatic brown. The grass is suggested by white negative space, the same colour as the background.
September 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 9: Vanishing
Amur leopards are critically endangered. Zoos around the world maintain a captive population.
A mixed media illustration of an Amur leopard. The cat lies on its side and faces to the left. The style of the work is unfinished, like a sketch.
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#SciArtSeptember Day 8: Niche
Fossas fill an ecological niche often occupied by cats.
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#sciart #scicomm #fossa #madagascar #wildlife
A mixed media illustration of a fossa. The illustration uses interpretive colours - orange for the animal and foreground and bright blue for the background. The fossa stands on a rock and faces to the right.
September 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#SundayFishSketch + #SciArtSeptember Day 7: Boreal
Walleye are a common fish in the waterways of the boreal forest.
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#sciart #scicomm #walleye #wildlifeart #animalart
A mixed media illustration of a walleye fish, shown from the head to the mid body. The fish is coloured in brown and gold tones and the background is maroon red.
September 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM