Bug Robbins (they/them)

@bugwithapen.bsky.social

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Illustrator, yearner, queer cowboy šŸ¤ šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø Www.bugwithapen.com

A page of queer themed tattoo flash illuminated on a portable light box. There are gay frogs french kissing, a pinned green carnation, a little pansy with a heart, a cute sweating popper bottle with cartoon eyes, a little oat milk container with a cute cartoon face, a jean short butt with a bandanna hanging out of the pocket, a brick with Marsha written on it hitting a pig cop in the face, in bubble letters the words dyke, enby, and fag, and a little t4t in candy hearts. The border is in progress and checkerboard. Behind the flash sheet is a mug of tea and a tray with various colored acrylic inks
Bug holds up the shirt they designed on a slim black hanger in front of their bookshelf filled with all sorts of art and trinkets. The shirt is a light cream natural color and has a gay punk little frog doing a peace sign and holding a book. They have a beanie, septum piercing, sleeve of frog tattoos, jeans and platform black boots. On their jeans is a caribeaner with a dragonfly key. The frog is sitting on a mushroom on top of a giant lilypad, and to the right is a stack of books as tall as the frog. On the spines of 4 of the books it says ā€œRead Books Be Gayā€ there is a little rainbow, clouds, and drawn sparkles at the top. Its all drawn in a very cute but printmakery and colorful style.
Reel of enby illustrator Bug Robbins putting on more and more frog items that they own- a bright green collared shirt, knitted frog hat with big round eyes, a long pajama shirt with a frog on the front holding a rose in itā€™s mouth, a frog sticker which they slap on their forehead, and a folky wooden frog with a fishing pole. The reel ends with them showing off their top surgery scars and then pulling down their new Read Books Be Gay shirt with a queer frog reading from a stack of books on it.
Large fluffy orange and white cat named Ovid sleeping soundly while having his chest gentle scratched and floof gentle scrunched. Beneath him is a soft grey knitted blanket and he is softly breathing/snoring.
Luigi Mangioneā€™s ankles, demurely crossed, saddle leather loafers on his feet and wearing a pair of khaki chinos. Each ankle is cuffed with a chain dangling down between.
A fluffy orange and white cat sitting on the top of a shelf. The warm glow of a lamp illuminates tons of books, an old leaded glass window behind the cat, and above more art, trinkets, and crystals.
Tattoo flash sheet based on the 2024 Nosferatu film. A rat dressed as Willem Dafoe dancing in flames. A ā€œprisoner of loveā€ hand styled like Orlakā€™s hand, a graphic image of the stone tunnel leading into Orlakā€™s castle, Ellen with the shadow of Orlakā€™s hand over her face, a rat head styled like Orlak aka ā€œratferatuā€, the locket with Ellenā€™s hair, a trad tattoo style plague flea, and in the center the gothic nosferatu type interwoven with lilacs and drips of blood
Portrait photo of Bug, they have a green collared shirt on and are smizing the camera in sharp black eyeliner with lots of chain necklaces. The photo has a vintage filter with rainbow flare effects.
Traditional style tattoo flash of Willem Dafoe as a rat in his character from nosferatu. Heā€™s waving his arm with a can of gasoline in front of a raging flame, dressed in a victorian coat and top hat.