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There is a cat named Fraggle Rock in this world! Come check out the illustrated diary (shared by Pallas Athena) of the adventures of settling in to their home, as told by the artist 'AM'! 🐈🐈‍⬛

Ritesh Babu's choice for best of the year:

chavenet posted Comics were real good last year, a short list of lists for best comics of 2023

The majestic Snowyoctopowl, perhaps?

In case you missed it, Brids, Sfish and other Amals, a fun browser toy by dng that mixes up Victorian animal illustrations to create amazing new hybrid animals every time you click.

MetaFilter member ' bouvin' posted about Pete Beard, who has just published his 100th episode of 'Unsung Heroes of Illustration', a series which covers illustrators born between 1850 and 1910.

Apocalyptic giant flying bioluminescent jellyfish destroying a city, digital art

Rhaomi entertained the Saturday night crowd in Metatalk by fulfilling requests for art by OpenAI's DALL-E 2

Louis Renard fish illustrations

The Go-Go's: "a kinetic effervescence, with a pulse that shimmered and spangled"; Glorious psychedelic fish illustrations, many of actual fish; Remember those brights spots on the Dwarf Planet Ceres?; All of James Sowerby’s mineralogy compendium illustrations arranged by color; DIY hologram chocolate?; Resurrecting the art of China's dragon scale bookbinding

Magic For Artists header

do whatever sounds cool to you shall be the whole of the law — thelonius

For those who like esoteric imagery, fearfulsymmetry posted the excellent "Magic for artists" three-part series. Note thread comments from robocop is bleeding (see also & more) and egypturnash (see also, & more & more)

detail of revikim's drawing

MeFi member revikim made this beautiful design using nothing but ink pens over six days of work, posted it to Projects and it ended up on MetaFilter. Stunning work while also being hard to imagine the hours that went into producing it.