Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), in white winter coat, family Leporidae, Alaska
photograph by Loren Merrill
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Today in important facts about bunnies:
Northern Arctic hares have a strange habit of fleeing by hopping on their hind legs instead of running on all fours, and no one knows why the hell this happens
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From Stardust to Stardust - Hare
One of my favorite versions, the tiny leverets 🥹💗
Tapestries are available! Number 96 (with many species variations) https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1402940378
And posters: https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/714985107
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Inle
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NGC 1964 // Gary Imm
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Reimagining and redrawing a lot of old things lately, trying to merge the painting styles, subjects and patterns I most enjoy working with 🐰 (Oviously to match my crafts stuff too!)
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Been working on some Alcor outfits for the past few days! ( I don’t have any taste in fashion so I honestly have no idea if any of the stuff I came up with actually looks good) I’m sorry for how many fishnets there are, I just really love them but don’t have the confidence to wear them myself. I made multiple of Alcor in pajamas, and one of him in a toothless onesie I have myself!
I also added Lepus.
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some non-bug creatures seen in my backyard recently. someday I will get a photo of a fairy wren that isn't blurry lol.
Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus).
Superb Fairywren, male (Malurus cyaneus).
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Antelope Jackrabbits (Lepus alleni), family Leporidae, Southern Arizona, USA
photograph by @Kat Guellich
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The March Madness
The mating period of European hares starts end of January, beginning of February and ends end of July, beginning of August. The height of the breeding season, is known as "March madness", when the normally nocturnal bucks are forced to be active in the daytime. The boxing usually occurs when a male is being too persistent with a female, chasing her across fields in an attempt to mate.
Right at the beginning of the hare breeding season, in January, is also the best time to see the constellation Lepus.
Very happy with how this piece came out! :)
Prints are available:
https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com/listing/1672012404/the-march-madness-print-hare-ostara
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Polar Hare with her leverets (another version) 2021
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M79 // Reggie Jones
This is yet another globular cluster, although this one is likely extragalactic! Astronomers believe that it immigrated to our galaxy from the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, which the Milky Way is currently swallowing.
Discovered by Méchain in 1780, Messier noted that "this nebula is beautiful; the center brilliant, the nebulosity a little diffuse."
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This one was a long time coming, updates to The Chamaeleon Three! It was a difficult and delicate balance to strike with editing each of these, making sure their concepts and symbol integration were strengthened while streamlining a few things as well.
Lepus’s palette and design accents are very similar to Centaurus’s right now, as I plan to overhaul Rus’s colour palette with his own tweaks later. Between the two I think it fits Lepus a bit more.
I was already happy with Lynx’s prior pose so most of that was copied over here, and overall his tweaks are slightly more subtle compared to the others.
It was just a matter of cutting back on a few things to balance the level of detail and colour placement, which was easier said than done! Chamaeleon especially, I didn’t want her to lose her neon flare when trying to simplify parts of her design, so I had to take a long break after looping back on myself too many times. I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me earlier to combine the concept of the mottled skin of a chameleon with spray paint splatter for her, but better late than never I guess! I wanted it to be more obvious that she’s a tagger without having to rely on her holding her spray gun or paint cans all the time.
I’m not sure who got the biggest glowup between them, but I’m super happy with all three, especially the improvements in the posing and overall anatomy/structure. This was quite a few months in the making, but it’s nice to see it complete now :)
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The constellation symbols for Chamaeleon, Lynx, and Lepus were originally designed by Denis Moskowitz and released to the public domain
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