#purple emperor butterfly

[emmanuel-the-manual]

A rainbow of moths and butterflies I’ve drawn this year!

Also there won’t be art for a while- I’ve broken my dominant arm and cannot draw for a month while it heals up.

Thank you so much for the love on the bug drawings!

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Not all butterflies enjoy flower nectar; some, like the purple emperor butterfly, have a more eclectic diet. These beauties are commonly found around carrion and roadkill, sucking out the nutritious fluids in the rotting meat. They will also feed on honeydew produced by aphids, tree sap, dung, and urine.

(Image: A pair of purple emperor butterflies (Apatura iris) feeding on scat by Mathew Oates)

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[fireflywingss]

a nonbinary purple emperor butterfly

[realrogerhours]

Those who will inherit the earth

[some-random-wolf-with-internet]

Finished redraw 2023 vs 2020 and 2021

I really love the progress I’ve made over these few short years.

You can see the progress of Mikas design with her horns being bigger and no longer having back spines along with how I draw feathered wings in general.

[i-eat-butterflies-when-im-alone]

PÙRPŁÊ ĘMPĖRÖR BŪTTĘRFŁŸ

wow!!!!!!!!! iridescent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bet it would look even better with some sunglasses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have to agree with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[heartnosekid]

the great purple emperor (sasakia charonda) | source

[clockworkclownart]

Day 1 - Insect - #DannyMay2024

So it was complete coincodence that the first day in this challenge lined up so perfectly with a doodle i had just done after reading @impyssadobsessions 's ongoing Raising Phantom AU. there was a scene in the extra's where de-aged danny is hanging out with buterflies and one becomes a ghost~

[scottpartridge]

Posting something for #summerbuggin24 - a #purpleemperor #butterfly . It seems there are a few Purple Emperors - this one is the Japanese or Great Purple Emperor, Sasakia charonda.

#summerbuggin2024 is hosted by @lisap_illustrations@kirstensneathart and @artyreg77

[jesterph0bic]

My clown Yosano !! She's a butterfly :)

[onenicebugperday]

@titania-saturnine submitted: Sorry for the poor quality ^^' I was sitting on the porch when this friend landed on the chair arm rest and was exploring all the little grooves on it with her (?) tongue (??). I'm curious about the species because I've seen a few around lately (in NW Spain.)

Lol it sure is licking the heck out of that chair. Guess it's delicious. This lil friend appears to be a lesser purple emperor, Apatura ilia. Like other emperor butterflies, the caterpillars have cute little horns like in my icon photo :)

[emmanuel-the-manual]

Purple emperor 👑

[wildlifegermany]

[redtriangle]

Purple Emperor (plus Monarch Mode) Thomas Astruc as the holder of the Butterfly/Moth Miraculous. Astruc revealing his true color.

Miraculous Ladybug made by Thomas Astruc & Zagtoon Drawn by Redtriangle (me)

[losingchipmunk]

I drew Shinobu for my swap au :D I think she's pretty!

[artist-issues]

I feel like Luz’s palisman is a representation of what’s going on in the writer’s room for The Owl House ever since the end of Season 1.

Build up to a big reveal, get people guessing and hoping, and when it finally arrives, it’s…every animal, instead of committing to one. It’s a new creature with no previously-set-up lore or presence in the show…that is able to morph into anything.

Not a little owl, to symbolize she found a place where she can belong as The Owl Lady’s only true apprentice. Not a little wolf-King-lookalike, to symbolize her commitment to her friends and call back to Eda’s line from the first episode. Not even a little bat or singular animal to symbolize how she’s her own person. Just a lazily slapped-together last-minute creature that might as well be called “Whatever You Want-o-Saurus.” 

Elaboration below the cut.

Kind of like how the show can just be about any character. Oh, you thought this was a show about Luz and Eda, and occasionally their sidekick King, with even more occasional appearances by her new schoolmates? Nope. We don’t pick three main characters to focus on—EVERYBODY needs angst. EVERYBODY needs trauma. All characters must have big reveal moments, love interests, crying scenes, and relearn the same lessons over and over again. By Season 3, Willow, who should have had less screen time than EDA HERSELF, not only has more screen time, but is simply learning the same old half-a-witch self-worth shtick that she learned in Season 1. 

Literally, it would be like if, in Star vs the Forces of Evil, the show zoomed in on Ponyhead, Heckapoo, and Eclipsa, (Hunter, Willow, Gus) and every scene included some reference to their emotional trauma, like a hammer hitting your head in the same spot over and over and over. Meanwhile, Star’s (Luz) screentime is limited but also solely focused on her self-hate for messing everything up, Marco (Eda) gets three lines of dialogue, and we’re treated to much more Glossarick (King) and Ludo (Collector) screen time, where’s he’s no longer funny but nobly self-sacrificial and confident.

Or if Gravity Falls, Season 2, gave Dipper (Luz) plenty of screen time to be an emotional prop for characters like Robbie, Soos, and Wendy (Amity, Hunter, and Gus) while he background-hates himself. Meanwhile Mabel (Eda) is almost written out except for being given two lines per episode about wanting to save Mermando from being turned to stone—oh, you don’t know Mermando (Raine) that well? It’s because he was just tossed in as a progressive love interest halfway through the final season—and Grunkle Stan (King) gets to be completely free of all previous character traits except “must save kids” energy while Lil Gideon (Collector) holds him hostage. Oh, and the interesting villain? The one we’ve been teased with and really are invested in seeing lose? Bill Cipher? (Emperor Belos) He’s just kinda crawling around in the background, powerless until we need to give Soos more emotional trauma.  What I’m saying is, sure, Stringbean looks cool. The Collector looks neat and clearly is meant to be child-murderer creepy (oh but you can still feel bad for him because we poured Trauma™ on him, too.) The big playtime set pieces are definitely going for Gravity Falls’ “Weirdmageddon” vibe. Every character gets a snazzy new haircut and outfit change every three episodes (or ten minutes.) 

But who the heck cares when the story is lazy, unrecognizable, carries itself like it has substance and commits to nothing—except the same old character beats from Season 1 but with more crying?