1st Drawing Of Inktober :-)

little auk🐧

kustaa saksi

currently obsessed with how vanessa stockard draws black cats. i've never seen anyone capture their ability to transform into a vaguely cat-shaped void with so much accuracy

Humpback Whale with Ancestors

“Look how much we’ve changed”

From It Takes All Kinds, illustrated by Trevor Ruth. 1994.

Huihan Liu

lucky ducky 🌷🦆

Blimunda - Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento), by José Saramago

an illustration for Ladies of Literature Vol.2 - ladiesofliterature

Blimunda (a.k.a. Seven-Moons) has the ability to see people (and everything else) on the inside. She’s one of three protagonists, and they’re trying to build a flying contraption in 18th century Portugal during Inquisition. Bartolomeu, the “brains” of the operation, figures out there’s something inside people - “human wills”- which are necessary to lift their contraption. And it turns out Blimunda has the power to capture those into a jar as they leave the body of dying or desperate people - so she sets off to Lisbon as a plague spreads.

My favourite character from the only required reading book I truly enjoyed in secondary school. I was tempted to pick a more international or trendier character for this anthology, but… this felt right.