astro-axolotl - Bubblegum Punk
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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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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
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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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1 year 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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1 year ago
Windy Days (photo Taken In Lieu Of A Scanner)

windy days (photo taken in lieu of a scanner)


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1 year 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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1 year 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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2 years ago
A dark blue werewolf silhouetted against a full slightly orange moon in a dark blue sky. Their ears are back and they're looking down sadly at their right hand's claws. Written on an arc above the moon is "You're a Werewolf" in scratches. Below the moon  on an arc is written "and I'm a full moon." The lyrics are from "Be Nice to Me" by the Front Bottoms.

I like werewolves. I like song lyrics. I see song lyrics about sad werewolves: I draw. Lyrics are from "Be Nice to Me" by the Front Bottoms.


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2 years ago
The top part of a red brick building with two rows of balconies, each with three glass doors leading inside. The bannisters are black iron bars. In the top left balcony, a person with long pink hair leans against the front bannister. She wears a purple leather jacket, blue jeans, and black combat boots, and stares off in the distance. A cigarette hangs in between her left index and middle finger. Smoke rises towards the dawn sky. In the background, the Denver skyline stands beneath the gray Rockies.

A morning cigarette after a party.


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2 years ago
A white mug sits on a wooden table in the morning sun. Inside the mug, there is a small coral reef with green, pink, yellow, and purple corals and anemones. Above the reef, many fish in the same colors swim. Near the top of the water, a school of five eagle rays swims near the right edge of the mug and a black tipped reef shark swims near the left edge. The water's surface ripples and shimmers. On the outside of the mug's left side, a white hand rests. A black sweater pools around its wrist

I think something is wrong with my coffee maker....


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2 years ago
A young girl stands in a green field holding up a lantern. Her brown cat ears are pinned back against her spiky, shoulder length brown hair. A purple cloak wraps her shoulders and its end billows just above her knees. Her brown pants are rolled up above brown boots with black soles. Her long-sleeved shirt is green with gold x's embroidered at the wrists. Rising above the pines in front of her is a large dark blue cat with black ear tufts and white fur in her ears. Her eyes are two yellow moons. Her nose is black. A large star marks her forehead, and smaller stars stud her whole coat. The moon hangs between her ears in the dusk sky. Two dark green pines in the foreground frame the scene.

This is the story of a little girl looking for the mother she has never known. The story of a world of gods and a world of men, and the child caught between them. Zine coming soon.


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2 years ago
A tiger swallowtail butterfly. It is mostly yellow with black veins and blue detailing on the lower wings. A light pink DNA double helix spirals out from the butterfly's tails. Yellow bases (thymine) are paired with green bases (adenine). Blue bases (guanine) are paired with orange ones (cytosine). Bases are bonded with silver hydrogen bonds. The background is purple with a lavender hexagonal lattice.

Tiger Swallowtail and a strand of its DNA.


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2 years ago
A cream sea slug with brown spots wears a tan cowboy hat with a red sash around the base. It has gold studs. He chews a strand on gold wheat. The background is a green circle.

"Howdy, partner. Don't suppose you seen any cows around these parts? Mine seem to have wandered off. Mind helping me find em? Your eyes be mighty useful, 'specially cause I don't have any!"

Will you help him find his cows?


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2 years ago
A gray tabby cat with a white chest, black nose, and gray-green eyes lying on a blue mat. The background is a pale blue. His name is Myles.

My roommate's cat, the magnificent Myles. He's adorable and I love him so much.


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2 years ago
A 3/4 view portrait of sea slug humanoid with teal skin and bright blue freckles. They match her round, pupil-less eyes that have black wings. On top of her skull is a blue goo resembling a short bob hair cut. Two black furred antennae sprout from it. On either side of her black lips are two small bright blue tentacles. She smiles, revealing sharp white teeth. In the dark water around her, glowing blue lights hang. End Id.

Made a little portrait of a sea slug lady complete with the head antennae and face sensory tentacles. I think we sometimes forget they're voracious predators so I gave her sharp teeth.


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2 years ago

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A lovely friend!

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Here's a friend for you too


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