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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you remember old work not listed here you can genuinely just ask. Some client work is off limits, other than that everything is fair game.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can print at home/locally to skip ridiculous shipping, adjust the file to suit whatever format you need, and we get to keep the money in the community because fuck those corporate middlemen and their bullshit automated moderation. Honestly I only get $2-5 per print and cents per sticker anyway.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hello, since Redbubble did me dirty (suspension without explanation while owing me money) let's experiment a little bit! If I've known you long enough not to abuse my work and you want a print/sticker/whatever from me, pay me what you want, I'll give you high resolution files. Try me! #Art #SciArt

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

over the years I swear I've had 10+ people ask my permission to get this pic as a tattoo, but not a single person has followed up with the actual tattoo photo surely one of you is out there? you actually did it, yeah? not just a bluff?

painting of two squid, one in bottom left corner, one in top right corner, touching appendages in the middle, a parody of the creation of adam

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

deeply annoyed by how lush this random roadside staghorn is, i don't even think anyone waters this

a tree which trunk is fully covered by a huge lump of staghorn fern. the fern's leaves come in two forms, the shields go up like a green crown, the staghorns droop down, giving the overall appearance very full and lush

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Artists, show how much you've improved in 30+ years - 🦀 edition 1994 vs 2026

blurry phone pic of a kid's drawing of a crab in markers. the anatomy is extremely wonky and stubby but all the anatomical details are there.

portrait of an orange hermit crab in circular, ornate blue frame. the crab is in a snail shell with various worms and bryozoans encrusting its surface.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

QRP your bird art 🐓 oops all chimkn #Art #SciArt

Realistic vertical illustration of two roosters fighting, one jumping on top of the other, both having their wings open.

Flat color vector illustration of a rooster head surrounded by colorful abstract shapes formed by sharp lines.

Semi-realistic flat color drawing of a full body rooster in CMYK, with all the four colors overlapping each other to give it a wider range of colors.

Semi-realistic painting of a crowing rooster head, primarily golden brown against a colorful, gradiented, but mostly blue-pink-yellow circular background.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

look I found some old bugs in my folders #Art #SciArt

rough pencil-like sketches of a mantis from various angles. the main image shows it from the side, the secondary shows a closer shot of the face slightly from higher up, then a frontal face, and the raptorial arm. the text says odontomantis, 2024-12-12 franzanth

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

was aiming for one bug a day but apparently it's not feasible on busy days, so here's a bug WIP

unfinished digital drawing of a tiger beetle showing blocky colors in bright orange, blue, and green

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oh yeah my emotional support anatomically accurate articulated emperor scorpion figure also arrived in the same box.

a brown office desk with a plastic figure of a black scorpion with massive pincers and relaxed tail

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I had to import that last Durant from Japan so might as well casually complete ALL* crab cards right? *still missing one promo Crabominable which proves to be tricky to find, but otherwise, yes this is all the crab cards. There's not a lot of them.

a binder page showing 7 cards of the brown rock crab klawf, one of them is a duplicate

a binder spread, on the left are 13 cards of krabby, on the right are 13 kingler, both are just normal red crabs

a binder spread, on the left are 13 dwebble cards, on the right are 14 crustle cards. both are hermit crabs with rocks on their backs

a binder spread, on the left are 9 crabrawler cards, a crab with boxing gloves, on the right are 13 crabominable crabs, a similar looking punching crab with snowy look

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A while back I decided to collect all Durant cards because: 1. They were cheap 2. It'd be funny to have a binder full of ants Turned out they were so cheap nobody bothered selling them. The real cost? Dozens of hours of browsing. Today my last ant arrived and behold, all Durant cards (afaik).

hand holding a TCG card depicting the pokemon durant, a steel ant, from ground level view focusing on its face and big jaws

a binder spread showing 28 ant cards of different artwork and colors

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I tried reformatting some old art into TCG size and I don't hate the proportions HMMMM

a collage of 8 bug illustrations in portrait format.

1. ant-like mantises sitting on leaves, wide angle illustration treated like a black and white landscape photography
2. a pink spider with black spots like ladybug, hanging between flowers
3. two dome-shaped round beetles grazing, viewed from a low angle
4. a landscape of stick-like fungi with a big slug looming in the background
5. mantisfly, an insect that heavily resembles mantises, illustrated with ornate pattern fillings in green and gold
6. dead moth with black wings and a skull on its thorax.
7. bee burrowing underground, only the sparkly butt is visible
8. white dragonfly flying above water with its reflection below it

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

alright let's see how long this takes

a dark image with white outline sketches of 12 different moths

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'd like you all to also meet Motha Lisa www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Mot... and Krill with A Pearl Earring www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Kri... #Art #SciArt

A parody of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci showing a robed figure in black against landscape background, except the figure has been swapped by a very fluffy moth with humongous eyes.

A parody of Girl with a pearl earring by by Johannes Vermeer which should show a woman facing slightly to the left with a big shining earring, except the woman has been swapped with a shrimp, with legs and antennae protruding from her collar under her face.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't check my redbubble enough to notice sales but how did this old shitpost suddenly become one of the highest selling pieces in my entire store lmao #Art #SciArt www.redbubble.com/i/poster/THE...

A parody of Edvard Munch's the scream of a figure standing on a bridge facing the viewer, screaming, but the figure has been replaced with the close up of a cicada. The background is swirly red.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How upset would people be if I revive this series without the BG colors? People told me the colors set them apart from the usual muted/beige posters. I wanted each one to have its own identity but tbh I ran out of colors lol. Anyway, buyables: redbubble.com/people/franzanth #Art #SciArt

A collage of 9 scientific illustration posters, each one featuring a different group of animals. The groups featured are ostracoderm fishes, nudibranchs, echinoderms, cephalopods, ediacaran biota, trilobites, jellies, spiders, and crabs. the background of each poster is notably saturated with dark vignette in the corners.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

pt 5. last one, i need to get back to work a bat, a flying mammal, and a palaeodictyopteran, an extinct "six-winged" flying insect from the paleozoic

a badly drawn bat that's halfway between a bat signal and zubat from pokemon vs a reasonable drawing of an insect with four big wings and two stubby wing-like projections behind its eyes, and two tail-like thingies in the butt similar to zubat's

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

pt 4. blue whale, the largest aquatic mammal, and aegirocassis benmoulai, the largest filter feeder from the ordovician

a badly drawn emoji whale vs a fairly realistic whale-shrimp looking aquatic arthropod

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

someone challenged me to draw a dog and a crab from memory without reference and

a bad line drawing of a dog that looks like it was drawn by a 3 year old vs a fairly realistic fiddler crab with the proper anatomical parts

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Crabmons pt 7 #InverteFest 🦀 Stag beetle @sad-ghost-guy.bsky.social Aerial @salamanderseer.bsky.social Muppet @penguinwizard.bsky.social PB&J @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social That's it that's the end, see you all again in December.

a set of 4 crab doodles. stag beetle is a brown flat crab with spindly claws resembling stag beetle mandibles and one pair of its legs are wide like beetle wings. aerial is a quad rotor drone with a pointy crab face and two claws underneath. muppet is a gray nondescript blobby crab with two arms pointing up each one wearing a green and yellow sock puppet. PB&J has a giant sandwich with a big bite mark acting as a claw, oozing orange and purple liquid. the body of the crab is two orange and purple jars tied together at the bottom by a tray, with the jar lids on top having eyestalks.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crabmons pt 5.5(?) #InverteFest 🦀 I ran out of time so I'm giving you all an exploitable template instead, go have your own office supplies crab of encouragement. Office supplies @pyukumusou.bsky.social

a set of 4 doodles of office supplies stacked like a crab. the body is a cylindrical pencil case, two pencils sticking out on top like eyes, the claws are scissors and a stapler, on the face is a yellow post it note. all 4 crabs are identical, but with different text on the sticky note. the first note says live laugh crab with a heart, the second note says you've got this with more hearts, the third note says eggs, milk, potatoes, giratina v #186 lost origin, the fourth note says HELP written in different shaped letters like a ransom note.

the office supplies crab with blank post it note, ready to exploit.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download & submit to the next edition: invertefest.com/#artbook #Art #SciArt

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a mantis, trilobite, cephalopod, beetle grub, tick, among others. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including 3D, paper cutout, pixel art, and so on.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Since we have a lot of prompts I'll post sets of 4 that are distinct from each other Blueberry @rosenlynx.bsky.social Plasma cutter @psyknight.bsky.social Mollusc @lordsovorn.bsky.social Star @spissatella.bsky.social #InverteFest

a set of 4 crab doodles. blueberry is a crab that looks like the bell-shaped blueberry flower hanging down, blowing bubbles that are just literal blueberries. plasma cutter is a mechanical box with safety goggles and two cable arms that end with plasma-emitting nozzles. mollusc is a hermit crab in coiled ammonite shell with paddle like legs. star is a star-shaped crab carapace with tiny claws and very long legs extending backwards like shooting star trails.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I need to atone for my sins (taking too many vertebrate projects this year) so I'm doing an #InverteFest special - Crabmons give me a word/archetype/whatever and I'll do a crab when I can crabapple & skeleton, prompts by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social in the middle of a Slay The Spire 2 run

two crab doodles. on the left is crabapple, a red apple sliced in half facing the front as a face, two leaves on top as eyes, two smaller partially eaten apples as claws, apple slices as legs. on the right is skeleton, a crab whose face is made out of a single vertebra with its gaping hole acting as a mouth. on the sides are rib bones as legs, on the front are shoulder blades as claws

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#InverteFest begins at midnight your local time. Post your invertebrate art, join the community art book, go find critters in the wild, celebrate with us using the hashtag!

A poster showing 14 crabs of various shapes and colors. some are spiky, others have suspiciously long limbs, serrated claws, paddle legs, hairy shell, triangular body, and so on.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Last WIP I'll post, any further and we'll be in the "the WIP gets more engagement curse" territory. In the meantime you can submit your own work to the artbook here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

same illustration as above but with more refined details. a landscape image with mountains in the background and trees and bushes in front, but each one is a different invertebrate species

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I recently did a cover illustration that didn't make it, but go read the paper if you're interested! It's really fascinating. #Art #SciArt

dark illustration showing a raven and an otter circling around a glowing circle with a nematode inside

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