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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity)

@iancooketapia.bsky.social
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Storyteller. Science Communicator. Passionate about the world around us. Too many projects. Personal account. Founder of bsky.app/profile/cookedillustra.bsk…

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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is the Meat Mum.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A friend asked me to torture Wumpus. Double checking the spelling, I found out there was once a game called Hunt the Wumpus. This trend feels fitting.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look at this little guy.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Art from 2019 Honestly, in person it was way creepier. A 2D projection onto a 3D sculpture of a face, giving it a truly uncanny look. Seen at the G39 gallery in Cardiff, Wales.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨
Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.
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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3
A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hyrax in a Business Suit was the prompt. I went down a rabbit hole looking at Ethiopian designs for suits. I love African male fashion, man. I'd so wear stuff like that.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't believe the amount of recent history revisionism in the UK. Response to Polish immigration was so severe that it successfully led to Brexit. BREXIT. And tanked British economy. This happened last decade, you can just Google it.
Post on X Remember in early 2000s thousands of Polish men immigrated over to UK cause their economy crashed but no one said fuck all cause they came to work, minded their own buisness an left our kids alone.....

Response Most Poles who emigrated to the UK in the early 2000s remember something completely different and photo of xenophobic graffiti
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Been a while. Friend likes football (or kickyball, as I call it) and it is a source of evergreen ways to laugh at the sport.
Cartoon drawing of a man rolled up on the floor looking dejected. A football is next to him, unmoved. He says "I kicked the ball and it hurted" with no visible punctuation to drive how silly this little loser is being.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Discovered Paul Pena tonight. youtu.be/PqLk0wRlDs0
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Tuva Farewell
YouTube video by Paul Pena - Topic
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I am experimenting with visual language for a thing.
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Cooked Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com · 19/06/2026
Hey, sciency people. We want to do an experiment in prebunking. But we need you for it. An audio clip of your research, so we can turn it into a fun, newsy, animated thing to share online. Please get in touch if this interests you. More info coming soon.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Friend struggles to drink water, so I made it funner foi them.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
My attempt at Christian art. Did I succeed? Are you holyeth noweth?
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Going through my archive and finding some drawings from that time I visited Bucharest.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Took me an hour and a half to reduce my internet bill by £5 a month. All I wanted was LESS internet (I live alone, I do not need this much), and they wouldn't. They just wouldn't. I wish I could give some of this speed to friends in digital poverty. It is ridiculous.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Been away a couple of months and gotten rusty so I took my stylus and drew... whatever this is. I am afraid, chait.
This choice of green evokes uneasy feelings in me. This mouth, it craves something, and I am powerless to provide it. Someone please remove me from its vecinity! It's hold is too much for my weak will.
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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
a handmade embroidery artwork titled "Manually embroidered cats" created by artist @ladyserebrennikova.
It features three cats with intricate, unique patterns on their bodies.
The artist notes that these are manually embroidered and sometimes sold with baby cats included. 
The designs are often inspired by traditional art patterns like folk embroidery or floral themes.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Proud of this silly drawing I did for this article I wrote about how thoughtlessly consuming YouTube videos made me craft a strange narrative that othered people along lines of biases and political brainrot. It involves Breadtube, of course. Read below↓ theffangai.substack.com/p/not-immune...
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Not immune to propaganda
Where a quiet moment made me realise that YouTube videos had changed my perception of reality.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Somedays you feel like...
Sketch of a little weird feller in a dark cave reaching out to grab a hamburger left outside the cave. Very creepy, very cute.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Tahu Nuva.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
They look wrong from this angle. But, often, Tragedians look wrong from many an angle. #Pathologic3 #indiegame
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Time to heal a town.
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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'm finding as the years go on with me making comics that are primarily black and white, I am getting more readers commenting on 'why it's not in colour' and many others not reading because there isnt colour to begin with... that sure does stink!
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clo∙ver @clovercomics.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
France isn't far from what the USA is going through: President Macron & co are doing their best to put all power into the hands of police and military forces, and doing nothing to punish racism & xenophobia. Police violence is on the rise, and our medias are all being corrupted by far-right BS.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026
Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I really love how, on my third, more focused watching, you start to see the character Re-L Meyer from Ergo Proxy as what she is: a 19-year old girl way over her head who has had no positive role models or ways to deal with her emotions in a healthy way.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"Oranges", Oil on canvas,30 x 40in Alexander Saidov, Russian, born 1970 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Pohatu Nuva quick sketch. Drawing these masks is... difficult. I like Bionicle.
Digital sketch of Bionicle Toa Nuva of Stone, Pohatu
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Just did one of the endings on the indie title "Sorry, We're Closed". It is very rare that a game makes me want to play it obsessively. But this PSOne-style horror title is such a harrowing, beautiful experience it just grabbed me. New game + mode, here we go!
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Stiv @stivkun.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Code Lyoko monster designs randomly manifest in my head from time to time
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Visions of Swansea. Digital photography. Psychogeography.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I have seen god.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Math.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Winter sounds by the River Taff and Llandaff Cathedral in the back. Llan refers to a settlement with a church, as I understand it. So Llan Taff becomes Llandaff.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Drew a thing to celebrate finally deciding to delete my Instagram account. Too many thoughts to put into a 15 minute sketch.
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Simon Goss RCA @draftsmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Last of the mussels for now. All for sale - small ones are £275, medium £350, large £450 - float framed in black ash. (+P&P) Oil on hardboard 20x25cm (small). www.landscapepainter.me.uk/still-life #seashellpainting #mussel #musselpainting#artforsale #naturepainting #artforsale #buyoriginalart
A colourful oil painting of a mussel shell.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Escaping the cycle of Samsara is beyond my possibility. But having a hammock helps in that goal.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Timelapse digitization of a portrait drawing I did of Lithuanian musician Robertas Semeniukas of the band Žalvarinis. Finished drawing below.
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(Not the Horror Author) Shirley Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Here's a look at some of the pieces I made for the 21st annual Post It Show THIS SATURDAY at Giant Robot! ✨💖 1000s of originals from 100s of artists will be available for $30 a pop! Peep their blog for more info: www.giantrobot.com/blogs/giant-... #art
A set of 6 sticky notes arranged on a piece of card-stock.

The illustrations painted on each sticky note are a variety of animals ranging from wolves, bears, a bison done in an illustrative style similar to my ceramic pieces. They look as though they’re running across a landscape with a red sun, or a crescent moon, high above them.

There is also a piece featuring a crow with a big googly eye (literally, it's an actual googly eye).
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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'𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙪𝙮' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Walking Stick | Andrew Wyeth watercolor
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 27/11/2025
It's that "young creatives whose influences are apparent making something they love on a shoestring budget with no pretense" vibe that makes the result feel real intimate and human expressly because you can see the seams and cut corners even as it puts a smile on your face.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Someone described this as "festival girl business casual".
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Pipe Banshee says hi
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy. I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time! This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
A bull African Buffalo crosses a river in Kruger park, South Africa. He is walking towards us and has quite large horns. He is carrying about a dozen red-billed oxpecker birds on his back. The oxpeckers are eating ticks and parasites off the buffalo and also acting as sentinels to warn the buffalo about approaching predators.
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
When do you get too buff for a jar?
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The Iguan-ian (digitally hand-made perplexity) @iancooketapia.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Vegeta versus the REPO frog.
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