iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Limenitis weidemeyerii, Weidemeyer's admiral Having a feed on Agastache foeniculum, anise hyssop. I learned that adults will feed on carrion.

Tall spindles of light purple hyssop flowers frame a black and pale yellow spotted butterfly.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My violent Latenivenatrix I play in Path of Titan. He is a kick brained chicken that often ends up smashed to pieces or bitten apart. And he also bites his teammates.

A portrait of a dark brown raptor dinosaur with a pinkish muzzle dripping blood. Behind his squinty glinting eye are orange accents. A word balloon reads: I KICKY >:D

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Monarda fistulosa bustin with butterflies: western branded skipper? And some sort of fritillary, maybe aphrodite?

A parade of orange and black banded butterflies flitting among pinkish purple arrays of blooming bee balm, monarda fistulosa.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Another highly coveted plant native has established for me: purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea. It has taken years of seeding for one plant to grow and flower. I am grateful, and hopeful for more.

A lush mountain wildflower meadow. A tall wildflower is prominent in the foreground, tiny purple pink inflorescences climbing a cone of buds. Yellow Brown eyed susans and prairie coneflowers are scattered behind it, with pine covered mountains in the far background.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I yelled with joy when @quickxyk.bsky.social had me come look at this plant he found. I’ve been trying to grow Scarlet Gilia for years and it seems a few seeds managed to take hold. I am ecstatic.

Slender blossoms of vibrant red scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata on a spindly stem with a grassy and wildlfower background.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Get wrecked, grasshopper. Something has defoliated my columbines, and I bet it was grasshoppers. Thank you for your service, crab spider. 🫡

A crab spider sitting on a hyssop plant clutches its grasshopper prey by the face. L grasshopper.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As expected, the leaves of the (nearly) albino blazing star (Liatris spicata) is doing poorly now that the sun is more intense. Expected, but still too bad.

A tangle of healthy greenery with three or four long slender leaves of white. The pale leaves are droopy and mottled with damage.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Love to see orchids just growing growing from the earth. These are hyacinth or chinese ground orchids in Osaka outside a historical building.

Pink orchid flowers against a backdrop of sprays of bright green leaves.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Having a splendid time in Osaka! Thanks to @sekkinkyowe.bsky.social , @kanata029987.bsky.social , @geppei5959.bsky.social , and KC for making the visit so special! And thanks to Geppei for the art. 🥰

A drawing of the character Vantid licking their lips while looking at a delicious piece of sashimi held in a pair of chopsticks.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Me: no more sketchbooks Also me: cafe sketching in fat moleskin book from 7 story stationary store in Ginza, Tokyo sure sounds nice.

Loose colored pencil drawings of cats and crystals with two colored pencils in the foreground and a table with a ceramic cup in the background.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Beautiful creatures: Leconte’s giant ladybug SNAKEFLY Bumbleflower beetle Field crescent

The fat shiny red carapace of a ladybug shimmers in warm light. The ladybug is on a piece of pine bark.

A SNAKEFLY rests on a piece of pale granite. It has a slender dark brown body with long lacy transparent wings, and an elongated “neck”.

A fluffy brownish scarab beetle rests on a speckled piece of granite.

A butterfly rests on gravely soil. It’s wings are checkered in patterns of orange, gold, and black, edged with white.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Flew to Portland today. Worked on this and other sketches. 🦊

A photo of an iPad screen open to the procreate UI with a digital colored sketch of a fox. Behind the iPad is the wall of an airplane with a pouch stuffed with drinks and Southwest Airlines info packets.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Extremely excited to have what appears to be an albino Liatris emerging this spring. 😮

A photo of a liatris plant growing through pine needle litter. One of the sprigs of growth is very pale, appearing to lack the chlorophyll the rest of the plant has.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Concepts of Rocky Mountain Myrr Deer. I was working on before my laptop fried. I kept losing work from constant crashes so I kinda ran out of juice for these. Maybe I’ll pick it up again someday.

Several loose concept paintings of deer skulls with myrrh like tree branching of the antlers. Some of the skulls rest on moss, while one hangs ominously in rusty orang space. One fully fleshed mule deer looking beast stares at the viewer amongst scrubby sage with a Stormy sky behind.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Done messing with this, good enough! Made in Procreate.

Digital painting of a silver fox portrait against a green background.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yeeaaaah. RIP to my apple and cherry blossoms. It was so nice yesterday! How did you save a rattle baby?

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My studio smells like fox, I don’t know why. *lights incense* It’s snowing today, but yesterday I observed a beautiful gopher snake scavenge a mouse. I’m glad it got a good snek snack before the freeze. Hopefully it’s holed up under the house and staying warm.

A gopher snake gave and neck in a graceful s-curve nestled among conifer duff under a flagstone.

Gopher snake seen head on, its face very goofy, the process of swallowing a mouse, only the back feet and tail remain.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Oncidium Wildcat. These are the biggest oncidium flowers I’ve ever grown. Very faint sweet scent.

Yellow orchid flowers with rusty splotches in front of a sunny window. A stained glass amethyst quartz with plants leans on the window sill.

Close of yellow orchid flowers with rusty splotches in front of a sunny window. A stained glass amethyst quartz with plants leans on the window sill.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Megafluff color morph fox created in colored pencils.

A white and orange extremely fluffy fox made in colors pencil.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Sketches of creatures from The Alien Chronicles: Myal, which I imagine as capybara+cottontop tamarin, a Reject Viis, and Elrabin, the coyote like Kelth.

Drawings of various alien species from the Lucasfilm book series, The Alien Chronicles.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Every time I see a spider, I grab a cotton swab, dampen it, and slowly approach the arachnid. I get as close as I can and, sometimes, they’ll reach out an exploratory leggy, and then shove their face in for a big drink.

A cotton swab dwarves a small jumping spider on a green wall. The spider is drinking from the wet cotton.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Pokémon, here’s when I took part of a Pokémon with sexy legs trend.

A magicarp with sexy fishnet legs prancing across water.

A pidgey with sexy legs posing in front of a purple backdrop.

An oddish with a multitude of sexy legs sprouting from its head.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

OK. For the first time in many years, I’m open for single character sketch commissions! Furries and quads/wildlife and pets: $100, DM me. :3

A dragon anthro with feathered wings perches on a thick tree branch. His mouth is open in a cheeky grin with his tongue out.

Three anthro characters from the waist up. At top is a frilled lizard person, below her is a big cat with tufted ears gazing lovingly up at the lizard, and at the bottom is a surly looking canid with large ears wearing a coat.

A wolf anthro standing in a circle of mushrooms in a forest beholding levitating crystals.

A coyote wearing a collar holds a cactus mug of steaming tea while sitting with his knees drawn up.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Floofy Smarm,painted with gouache 💖🦊💖

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Recovery well under way! 🥰 It’s trying to flower, but I want it to keep putting energy into new roots so I’m cutting the spike.

A raggedy looking orchid with shriveled psuedobulbs and two fresh green new growths. A hand points out a small flower spike. The orchid is in a hexagonal teal pot on a wood surface with a sunny window behind.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

When the sunshine is too bright to work but I’m reluctant to pull the shade because it’s too beautiful.

An artists desk covered in orchid plants in bloom and rainbows of paints, colored pencils, a glass mosaic lamp, and dragon statues. The sunny window shines bright light upon everything.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I think this #orchid is “Guaritonia Why Not”. I’ve lost the label! it always flowers for me, even though its leaves look like blighted ass. Behind it is #Oncidium Twinkle.

Bright pink backlit orchid flowers with yellow centers in front of a sunny window. A cluster of small white orchid flowers is also shown on the right, as well as some scraggly looking orchid leaves.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One of my favorite orchids has bloomed for me! It’s been a couple years, it kept bud blasting on me. #orchids #epicattleya

An orchid flower in the foreground, known as epicattleya rene marques, with a green star shaped base, fuschia and white tipped end, and a frilly lip of yellow. Other orchids are in the background in front of a sunny window.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s #LoveHornbillsDay, so I gotta post my rhinoceros hornbill character, Reyliss

A rhinoceros hornbill with blue eyes wearing a necklace with dangling orange cabochons. He is backlit so his casque glows with rich subsurface scattering.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In the studio with windows open for a breeze (in January wtf), burning some incense (my “deep animal” blend), treated wood with lemon oil and beeswax (bonus turpentine smell), other surfaces with my oakmoss sandalwood spray, and wearing aged vanilla attar while the occasional orchid scent wafts by.

Photo of a sun filled windowed room with many plays on a wood desk and bamboo table behind a chair covered in blankets and sheepskin. Art supplies like watercolors and a sketchbook lay scattered on the dark surface of the desk.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I sketched some of the views along the I-70 on our way home from Steamboat Springs.

Several ink thumbnail sketches of mountains, trees, and birds. It is labeled “The road home from Steamboat Springs 12.31.25”

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I like to decorate cookies as if a glitter factory exploded.

A hand holding a copper teaspoon pouring sprinkles on top of an iced sugar cookies on plastic wrap on a counterto. The sprinkle decor is chaotic, with many colors shapes and sizes of sprinkles strewn across the cookies.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Some fanart from the old book series “The Alien Chronicles: The Golden One”. This is my take on the main characters from the first book, when they are still young.

Three anthro characters from the waist up. The top character is a golden skinned lizard with a spiny frill dappled with blues and greens. She is wearing a golden bejeweled collar and gauzy draped top. Beneath her is a golden big cat anthro reminiscent of a lion with tufted ears. She is wearing a golden enameled cartouche and a loose gown adorned with a golden ring. The third character is a snarly little jackal creature with long pointed ears and dark fur grizzled with silver. He is wearing a blue coat with golden embroidery.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Gouache and watercolor sketch of Yolo the baby king vulture. He’s such a cute baby. 🥹

A loose painting of a young king vulture looking very close into the camera. He is panted with warm purples and golden ochres.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Neostylis Fuchs in flower, one of my favorite orchids.

Numerous Purple orchid flowers in Front of a window showing mountainous scenery and a blue partly cloudy sky.

Numerous Purple orchid flowers in Front of a blurred window.

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🌟 🌈 Vantid Art 🎨 🌟 @vantid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

From putrid fungal infection rot to pushing out healthy roots and pseudo bulbs, this orchid seems to be recovering! I just treated it for mealybugs cause it doesn’t need that stress. I’m optimistic for a full recovery, but probably no blooms for a couple years. 💊🪴💊

An orchid in a clear pot held by a hand. It looks rather sad and shriveled as it’s recovering from fungal disease that was killing it. The background is numerous plants.

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