astro-axolotl - Bubblegum Punk
Bubblegum Punk

Art blog of Ari Coester. He/him. Mid 20s. I post comic concept art, cute animal watercolor, and surrealist illustration. My favorite things to draw are animals and monsters.

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6 months ago
A white and pink axolotl wearing a purple witch hat with green ribbon and hanging from a broom. The purple sky behind them is filled with orange stars and a full orange moon. There are some pines beneath them.

They're a little confused but they got the spirit!


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7 months ago
A giant reindeer made of telephone towers and lines that sucks white smoke from a power plant. Its red eye glows against a full yellow moon. Its legs disappear between the mountains and the crooked pines.

A spooky beast in time for halloween.


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11 months ago
A slight down shot of a person sitting on a concrete wall with one leg dangling over the side and the other bent to support their weight. Despite the heat, she's wearing black combat boots, black jeans, and an army green jacket with a hood. Her backwards black baseball cap keeps her long pink hair mostly out of her face. Their pony tail bounces slightly in the breeze. She smiles slightly at the camera. She's holding an open pink can which pink and yellow writing in the sky proclaims is strawberry soda.

Summer soda vibes! (Though that outfit may be a little hot for June)


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1 year ago
A pair of six-sided pink fuzzy dice connected by a braided purple cord. The ones are replaced by big round eyes with dark purple cat-like pupils. The left dice has a wide pupil and a mischievous grin with sharp teeth. A thin pointed tongue flicks out from its mouth. The right's pupil is smaller and its smile more timid. Its tongue is rounded. Each dice stands on a single orange chicken leg with white toes and spurs.

A silly little monster to brighten your day. I think they look funny hopping around.


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1 year ago

a little self reblog of a bat painting for international bat day!

A watercolor of a little brown bat on a white background

A little brown bat watercolor on paper.

1 year ago
A water color of small forest buffalo ( tamaraw) in black and red brown lines. The tamaraw is standing sideways and looking at the camera with a soft black eye. White hairs cross over it.  The horns and ear are red brown while the nose and body are drawn in black lines

We love a break to do a simple line art drawing. This a tamaraw, a small buffalo and the only native bovid in the Philippines.


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1 year ago
A side view poison dart frog with a shiny black back. Its back legs are gold with black markings, and their long toes are red with purple toe pads. There are patches of lime green where the legs meet the body. A green strip runs from shoulder to elbow on its forearm. Their front toes are black with one or two blue spots. A band of aquamarine sits over the black eye.

We love frogs in this house


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1 year ago
A watercolor of a little brown bat on a white background

A little brown bat watercolor on paper.


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1 year ago
A woman in green cargo pants with a blue belt and a black tank top stands with her back to the camera. Over her shoulder, she holds a katana with feathers, bones, and herbs dangling from the end of the hilt. Slash, burn, and bite scars litter her arms and face. Her head is shaved around the sides but just long enough for a 2 inch blond pony tail. At the base of her neck, a blue tattoo of a death's head hawk moth fluoresces. From the tip of her blade, a larger replica rises and hovers above her head. She stares back at the camera with eyes the color of the moth. The background is a lurid warm to cool purple brushstroke gradient.

Some people in her order get bears or wolves as their spirit bonds. She got a moth.... because she didn't need any extra strength.


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1 year ago
A pink and purple snail with a pumpkin leaf in his mouth crawling on a dark purple background. His shell is replaced with a lit jack o lantern with triangle eyes and nose and a spiky mouth. A weathered paper banner above him says "HAPPY" in red all caps and one below him says "HALLOWEEN"

He's a little slow, but he made it here eventually. He wishes you all a happy belated halloween!


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1 year ago
A small humanoid that is bird from the throat down. Turquoise and royal blue wings pinned just slightly away from her sides with red sewing pins at the elbow and wingtip. Tail feathers compressed and rigid. Her chest feathers are golden and still, a red pin through the center of her chest. Another pierces just above her sternum. A bob of blue hair frames her slightly surprised, glazed eyes. A trickle of blue runs from her mouth, down her chin. The paper backing is rough and purplish off-white. A slip of paper above her head reads: M. faerie. All is contained in a shining brown frame on a dark brown background.

I do like strange faerie concepts and taxidermy. Have both.


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1 year ago
Melog curved in a c shape as they jump down from a gnarled green tree. A string of floating gold lights spiral around from their paw to the base of their tail.

An old she-ra art piece. I really loved this kitty.


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1 year ago
A person lit from the left side by lavender stage lights jumping in the air and playing a cherry red bass guitar. Her pink hair in a ponytail flies around her right shoulder. Her black leather jacket and combat boots shine in the light. Her jeans are a pale baby blue and her t-shirt is white. She's smiling softly, completely at peace. The dark purple of the venue masks the crowd completely.

I missed drawing her. Have a show still of Kira Reed-Rodriguez


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1 year ago
A tea shop in the early morning light with pinkish tile floors and aquamarine walls. Along the left wall, there's a small wood table with two brass samovars and a few paper sample cups. Next to it, a bookshelf filled with brass tea containers. A set of three wooden counters arranged in a square with an open side on the left. Behind it, A purple curtain shuts off the back from the front of the shop. The furthest counter from the viewer has three old-fashioned style candy jars brimming with scones and a pastry case filled with tarts, cookies, cinnamon rolls and lemon bars. The two shelves inside the counter are filled with white cups and tea pots and black trays. Behind the cash register, a blond man in his early twenties stands wearing a white collared long-sleeve shirt, a green apron, and black pants. He pours a cup of tea into a pot. He looks over his shoulder smiling as the steam coalesces into a translucent humpback whale.

No whales were hurt in in the making of this tea.


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1 year ago
A white beta fish curved in a c shape on a black background. Its gray shiny eye stares at the viewer. Its semi-transparent fins contain arms of galaxies and scattered stars.

Galaxy Betta Fish.

Iron is only formed in the hearts of dying stars, and its a key component of vertebrate blood. This fish, like all of us, is made of star-stuff and the galaxies in its fins reflect that.

But astro-axolotl why a fish when all vertebrates have iron in their blood? Good question. The answer is I just really, really like fish.


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1 year ago
Facing towards the camera, a black teenage girl crosses her arms over her chest. In each hand is a pistol. Across her chest, two violet sashes containing bullets. Her shirt is simple white linen; her pants simple brown. A dark blue poncho covers her shoulders and spare fabric cascades off the left side. A black cowboy hat with a violet ribbon shades her stern face. Standing behind her is a bipedal black creature made of rivulets of thick liquid. Two pronghorn antlers sprout from the crown of its head. Its red eye stares at the viewer, emotionless. Two wings spread out fully behind its back. Behind them both the sun is setting, painting the sky red, orange and purple. The sand is the color of blood with small tufts of brush sprouting.

A teenager girl on a quest to avenge her mother. A demonic guardian bound to her that refuses to kill people. An empty desert where no one can hide for long....


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2 years ago
A 14 year old girl in profile lit from the front. The side of her head closest to the camera is shaved while the other side is short and spiked. Her hair is bubble gum pink. She's snarling with sharp teeth and dark fur sprouts from her cheek and the back of her raised, clawed hand. A too-big jean jacket hangs over her shoulders. There's a black circle patch on the shoulder with a red paw in the center. The background is dark green with triangular sparks dancing from the bottom left corner to the top right, going from orangish yellow to blood red.

We love a monster transformation in this household. Osha-violator Dogslobber back at it again.


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2 years ago
Windy Days (photo Taken In Lieu Of A Scanner)

windy days (photo taken in lieu of a scanner)


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2 years ago
A photograph with a black background of four people in Winnie the Pooh onesies. The left most person is the tallest and is in a piglet onesie. They have light skin and long pink hair pulled back in a ponytail. They smile sheepishly with their hands in a big pocket. The person next to them is in a pooh onesie. They are Indian and are holding a piece sign over their right eye. They are grinning. Next to them in an eeyore onesie is a black woman of the same height with the ends of her natural short hair dyed purple. She has her arm around the person in the pooh onesie and has a half-smile. There's a red diamond-shaped pendant on a cord around her neck. The last person in the line up is the second tallest and wears a tigger onesie. They have white hair, a happy smile, and a black choker around their neck. They're doing nya paws.

Some young punks in coordinated Winnie the Pooh onesies. Surprisingly, Chel's idea.

Kira (piglet): Hey Chel, why are we wearing these again?

Chel (eeyore): Halloween!

Kira: Yeah, but why Winnie the Pooh?

Midas (pooh): Cause it's fun! Now smile! The timer's about to go off!

Lace (tigger): Everybody say punk's not dead!

Everyone: Punk's not dead!


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2 years ago
A black teenage girl stands sideways pointing a Wild West pistol at the camera. A round lilac sigil glows around the muzzle. The sigil's outer ring is filled with triangles. The inner circle is filled with five circles with dots in the middle arranged in a pentagon. The circles are connected by lines. A black poncho billows out behind her. Two violet straps studded with bullet holders cross over her chest. She wears a white long sleeved shirt and brown pants. A black cowboy hat with a violet ribbon shades her stern eyes and sterner expression. Her black dreads wave in the breeze. Behind her, the red desert sand stretches to the horizon which ripples in the fading heat of sunset.

Introducing Violet Death, the most terrifying teenage gunwitch in the whole West. Her truth bullet will make you spill your guts-- in both senses of the phrase.


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2 years ago
A woman lies on her stomach on a bed with lavender sheets and pillows facing towards the camera.  Her tank top and sweatpants are sage green. Her long black hair falls over her left shoulder. A speckling of black ink dots both shoulders, and her one visible hand is stained with ink. She looks serene as she eats a page that hangs from her mouth and stains her lips with ink. A sage green book, open and with half its pages missing, lies before her. Three books( sage green, light green, and gray brown) lie in the bottom right corner, all their pages torn out. On the left side of the image is a bookcase with books in the same colors as the ones on their bed, all their pages torn out. The wall behind the woman is light blue.

She's having a good time, learning a lot, and trying to satisfy the endless hunger.


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2 years ago
Profile of a woman silhouetted against a yellow sunset sky with clouds in the red barren desert. She wears a black long sleeved shirt and a braid curls over the top of her left shoulder which is closest to the camera. An abnormally large coyote skull covers sits on her head and covers her face down to her nose, but her stern expression is still visible. Her eye peers out from the eye socket. Through holes in the top of the skull, two coyote ears emerge.

Little Western concept I'm toying with. Where'd she get that giant coyote skull you ask? Stay tuned!


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2 years ago
A blobfish sits on the sandy, purple sea bed, illuminated by the light beam of a submarine. Its thin tail is green-blue and another fin of the same color waves down from the base of the tail to the mid-back. The body is a soft gray and triangular. Two  fan-like fins frame the face on either side. It is bulbous and like the rest of the body studded with small white bumps. Its eye is small, black, and gleaming with quiet knowing.

A deep sea friend: the blob sculpin. These are also known as "blobfish," which won the price for world's ugliest animal a few years back. Why doesn't it look like the blobfish you've seen on the internet? With bulbous noses and frowning lips and pink flesh? Those blobfish were dead and photographed after removing them from their seabed homes (1,600 to 9,200 ft deep) in the pacific. Reeling them up causes their bodies to rapidly expand because of the pressure change, which causes them to become pink and bloated. This blob sculpin rests peacefully on the ocean floor, staring up at the light of a submarine that illuminates it. Soon, it will swim off into the dark, hunting small crustaceans.


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2 years ago

okay so I know this makes some ppl uncomfy and others dont care but!

reblog if you’re okay with people spam liking your posts

im okay with it! just thinking this might help ppl


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