Quil

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✨️ Quil | They/Them | Adult ✨️ 🐛Digital Artist 🦋Dabbling in bug photography 🪲Commissions: Closed till out of artblock 🐌 VGen: vgen.co/quilbug 🦗 Carrd: https://quilbug.carrd.co/ 🐝Bug Species: https://worldofwispers.straw.page/

A side view photo of a bright green bottle cicada on a leaf that matches its shade of green exactly. It has a large, segmented abdomen, transparent wings with yellow at the joints and legs that start off chunky before tapering into thinner joints. Its oblong eyes are a muted blue with a little black pupil, and there is a bright yellow marking behind its eye that looks like eyeliner.
A side view photo of a little hunch backed fly sitting on the edge of a very saturated sap-green leaf. The fly's stout little body has a hunch between its abdomen and thorax, spindly legs, and short antennae. Its abdomen is black, its thorax caramel coloured, its eyes red and its wings a transparent brown. It lifts its right foreleg up, as if pointing forward.
A front view photo of an australian garden orb weaver spider tucked up all cozy on a dark green leaf. It has pulled its two front legs close to its head, and its two back legs almost tuck under its big chestnut shaped abdomen. It has a very fuzzy, beige body with many sensory hairs sticking out of its legs. It has four tiny beads for eyes that peer out with an almost worried expression.
A side view photo of a baby giant grasshopper perched on the tip of a green leaf. The grasshopper has a little green, segmented body, little speckles of lighter green and black, oblong brown eyes and straight antennae.
A side view photo of a lichen moth pupa encased in a cage-like trellis of hairs it had constructed around itself. The pupa is a little orange-brown bean, its abdomen segments and wings can be faintly seen. Around it is a second structure made of interlacing hairs like a criss cross mesh.
A side view photo of a flatinae leaf hopper sitting on a redish-brown plant stem. The leaf hopper is a flat rectangular shape that tapers into its beak-like head. It is a saturated sap green colour, and its eyes are small with a smaller pupil dotted in the middle, giving it a shocked expression.
A topview photo of an orange salsa orb weaver spider on a ginko leaf. The spider is a bright, saturated range with lighter orange hairs and bold geometric patterns on its abdomen. It has four little eyes squished close together on the front of its head, and two more eyes at the sides. It has long legs that taper at the ends mottled with bold orange shades.
A photo of a little brown leafhopper sitting on the sap green stem of a plant against a saturated dark green background. The leafhopper has a teardrop shaped body, the bottom of the teardrop being its flat little head that tappers into the tail end with its wings neatly folded to its sides. The top of the leafhoppers head elongates into two prongs, with a hairy, knobbly ball on each end.
A photograph of a little white garland house hopper peering up past the camera, lit by a spot of sunlight, while standing on a dying leaf surrounded by dark green. The spider has a squareish head with its pedipalps pulled close over its red chelicerae. Its four visible eyes are in a row at the top of its head. Its little body and short legs are a dirty yellow colour, and seem almost semi-transparent. It angles its head up toward where its looking.
A photo of an australian garden orb weaver spider taken of its underside as it sits waiting on its web. The spider is plump and fuzzy, with a large diamond shaped abdomen, segmented thorax underside, and long fuzzy legs that taper into dainty points. The spider is coloured saturated shades of cream, caramel, and soft yellow.
A close sideview photo of a robber fly, focusing on the many segments of its thorax. Its thorax has a round shape, and the side seems pretty flat. It has small segments that interlock in a seemingly sporadic manner. The robber fly is mostly light grey, with some darker grey on the top largest segment of its thorax and some yellow on its long abdomen segments. It has white fluff all over its head, big oval eyes, red legs and transparent folded wings.
A sideview photo of a long weevil on a speckled green leaf. The weevil has a long, pill shaped body, stubby legs that seem to be unsteady, big oval eyes and a long black snout where two antennae potrude from. Its body is a patchwork of splotchy redish browns, off whites and darker patches.
A field-guide styled page illustrating and elaborating on wisper communication. The text ontop of thr page reads, "Communication continued. Observed: Host insect's communication behaviour. Illustrated in the middle of the page are three scenes of wispers displaying their biological communication methods. A cricket wisper (teleogryllus commodus) squats low to the ground and chirps with its wings. A moth wisper (rhimphalea sceletalis) kneels and points its abdomen up, exposing its pheromone emitting hair pencils. An ant wisper interacts with a regular ant of its species (leptomyrmex) by touching antennae. The bottom text reads, "Hypothesis: Wispers retain host's biological communication methods, but uses it mainly with its own bio-species. Telepathic communication may be used otherwise.
A screenshot of doodles done on magma, this shot showing roughly doodles bugs. There is a pear shaped weevil drawn in green by quil and labelled "webil", a little silly shaped weevil drawn by byrup and labelled "thing", and a neat weevil attempt drawn by pogglins.
A sketch of quilbugs anthro insect persona lifting byrup the anthro skink up into the air by the back of his sweater. Quil is very much smaller than their skink friend, and struggles to keep them both airborne. Byrup hangs his arms and tail comfortably and looks up to quil while sticking out his tongue.
Three sketchy drawings of bugs, featuring a bright green giant grasshopper, a type of splotchy brown weevil, and a flower feeding march fly with a fluffy body and brightly coloured eyes, surrounded by little colourful stars, hearts and symbols.
A textured coloured sketch of a young pathos plant stretching its leaves upward. Sitting on the plants curving stem sits quilbug's little green insect persona, very much the same sap green as the plant. Quil crouches with one leg perched on the thicker part of the stem, the other leg dangling down. They steady themself with their hands, and their balance is kept with their outstretched, transparent wings.
A coloured drawing of Crouton, Cesar Umbrage's spiny spider oc, striking a fun pose. They are an anthro spider with a black body and pops of fluorescent yellow-green on their stomach plates, pedipalps, head spines, feet pads and abdomen.
A neat sketch of Emperor the insect monster pinning down an anthro frog against the ground with a front leg and reaching down toward him with a claw. The frog tries to squirm his legs out of Emperors grip but his foot is pinned down by a second claw, he stretches out his hand in an atempt to block Emperor as it leans down with its mouthparts flared open. Emperors four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes.
A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the insect monster who has byrup the blue tailed skink sitting on its shoulder, placing cesars spiny orbweaver on its other shoulder by a web line.
A quick sketch of quilbugs anthro insect persona sitting on the floor and sipping on a small jelly cup with their proboscis as if it were a bowl of popcorn.
A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the insect monster holding cesars spiny orbweaver sona up in a claw above its open mouthparts while byrup the blue tailed skink sits on its shoulder,. In cropped bluesky comment speech bubbles Byrup shouts, "Food for the emperor!" while Cesare pleads, "I'm sorry for yelling please don't eat me Emperor".
A rough sketch of Emperor the insect monster with byrup the blue tailed skink on its shoulder, looking at cesars spiny orbweaver sona on its arm, who points at byrup and yells "IT LOVES YOU WHAT THE HECK". The speech bubble is cesars cropped bluesky comment.
A clean sketch of Emperor the insect monster crawling down toward the ground from being up on the ceiling. Its four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes. Its back legs are planted on the ceiling, its front legs curl down lower and its back is arched as it twists itself around.
A rough sketch of Emperor the insect monster, crouched and looking straight at the viewer. Its four legs and two arms are long and slender and have hairs that flare at the ends near the clawed hands. It has long antennae, mantis-like mouthparts and big blank eyes. It tilts its head slighty as if considering what is in front of it.
A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the giant insect monster putting byrups blue tailed skink sona on its shoulder and patting him with its antenna, seemingly pleased.
A roughly coloured sketch of Emperor the giant insect monster holding byrups blue tailed skink sona in one hand, it's four claws trapping him against its fuzzy palm.
A sketch reference sheet of Emperor, Quilbug's bug-monster persona. The creature is a mix of multiple insects. Is has the fuzz and green, red and yellow colouration of a pellucid hawkmoth. Its posture, mouth parts and the way its wings fold over its abdomen is that of a mantis, but the wings are transparent like a crickets. All its hands and feet are the same, with fuzzy 'palms' like a tarantula where four prehensile claws jut out of. The reference shows Emperor in a neutral pose, a closeup of its hands, and a closeup of its open mouth parts.
A rough digital sketch of Quilbugs insect persona lying on their back, exhausted, and with a bandage on one of their arms. There is a little title written above it that says "Treatment Success" with fancy sparkles, and an arrow pointing to the bug that says "Fatigue 100".
A little illustration of Quilbug's insect persona sitting sleepily on an abstract background of greens and blues. Quil is a lanky green bug person with red and yellow bands on its back and abdomen, and transparent wings.
A small reference page of Cherrynose the macrotristria sylvara cicada wisper. Cherrynose is a bright green, orange and teal coloured cicada with a dark blue pointy mushroom cap for a hat. The reference page shows Cherrynose in a neutral pose along with its colour palette and closeups of its forewing and back.
A side view photo of a flower-feeding march fly on a white papertowel, against a white background. The fly has a simple oval body covered in fluffy hairs, big colourful eyes, transparent wings and spindly black legs. Its triangular compound eyes shine green and yellow. The fluff on its underside is an off-white colour, while the fluff on its back and on the end of its abdomen is bright, saturated orange.
A side view photo of an extremely fluffy bag shelter moth sat on the tip of a finger. The moth is covered in cream coloured hairs all over its stout little body, poofing up on the back of its head, thorax, abdomen, and the first two joints of its legs. The fluff on its abdomen is a caramel colour with black splotchy stripes running across the top. It has cream coloured wings that look way too small to carry its big fluffiness, two feathered antennae, and two big round eyes.
A roughly coloured sketch of quilbugs lanky green insect persona overcome with love, they hold their hands crossed over their chest, flutter their wings, curl their antennae into a heart and close their eyes. There are little hearts and stars around them.
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "Mr. Guy who writes the field notes, who are you and what is your name?"
A front page and authors note to the world of wispers field-guide. It has a title written in cursive ink that says, "Exploring the World of Wispers". Beneath the title is a drawing of a photo of the author, taken on an instant film camera with a sepia filter, it is drawn as if taped into the page. On the bottom white border of the photo there is a small note that says, "By me :)". There is an authors note at the bottom that says, "A documentation of the magical phenomenon known in folklore as 'wispers'. My aim is to find, observe and document all there is to know about these little creatures."
A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining the life cycle of quilbugs magical wisper species. The first stage is 'Nature', illustrated by a patch of greenery in a forest. The second stage is 'Catalyst', illustrated by a glowing white swirl. There is a note beside it that says, "Something causes natural energy to form into a magical force." The third stage is 'Wispie', illustrated by a glowing swirl in a humanoid shape, with radiant lines coming from its head. The fourth stage is 'Fusion, illustrated by a some white radiant glow on the back of a black and yellow hoverfly. There is a note under it that says, "Nature and magic combine into one." The Fifth stage is 'Wisper', illustrated by the hover fly turned into an anthropomorphized version of itself, crouched and curious. The Sixth stage is 'Life', illustrated by the hover fly wisper carrying a little bag and flying. There is a note under it that says, "Seemingly immortal, but can and will eventually be killed." The Seventh stage is 'Death', illustrated by the hover fly wisper getting caught by a quick frog tongue. The eighth and last stage is 'Decay', illustrated by the feces of the frog that ate the hover fly wisper laying in the dirt, with some glowing white particles floating up from it. There is a note above it that says, "Magic returns to nature, as if it were any other energy."
Another strawpage question that asks, "Are there other more powerful personifications of magic? Like some sort of gods? What are their relations with wispers/wispies?"
Another strawpage question that asks, "What happens when a wisper is eaten by something? Does the predator get some part of their magic?"
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "How does natural magic manifests, other than wispies? And is it possible and/or advantageous for a normal arthropod to harvest it to potentially become some type of wisper?"
A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining wisper communication via an interaction that was had between the author and a black house spider wisper (badumna insignis) in the corner of a bathroom window. Two illustrations show the window, and a closeup of how the spider wisper looks. It has a messy, tangled web in the top right corner of the window, and hangs onto the threads with one hand outstretched to the viewer. An annotation beneath the second drawing reads, "Messy web, like a regular house spider :)". The conversation is transcribed, it reads. "As I was about to open the window, Voice, "Wait!". Me, "Hello?", Voice, "It will destroy my web!", Me, "Are you... the spider?", Voice, "Maybe.". Beside the transcription there is a note that reads, "It was a slow exchange, concepts entered my mind and were slowly interpreted into words I understand. I imagine it had to interpret the concepts from my words as well." A little diagram illustrates this at the bottom of the page. There is an icon of the spider on the left side with "its language" written beside it, and an icon of the author on the right side with "my language" written beside it. Between the icons is a squiggly line surrounded by shapes that represent concepts, and arrows that point to both icons, signifying the concepts being transferred to both via telepathy.
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "Are you able to be commissioned for a ref sheet/character design for these critters? I wanna moth one so bad!"
Another strawpage question asks," As the host already has a language before fusing, does that mean that they are somewhat intelligent and conscious before fusing? And how does other normal arthropods perceive fusing? Is it sacred? Is it considered negatively by the family of the host as they lose them?"
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "Are there humans or other intelligent species in this world, and if yes, what are their relation with wispers?"
A field-guide styled page illustrating some non-insect wisper variants. There a headings, annotations and notes on the page. The heading reads, "Observed: Non-insect wispers. Arachnid, Crustaceans and Mollusk." The note at the top reads, "Note: Non-insect wispers are rare, and seem to be the least humanoid." The note at the bottom reads, "Hypothesis: It may be easier, or more desired, for a wisper to fuse with some bodies over others... which may explain the absence of plant or fungus wispers. Note: why no small mammal or bird wispers?" The first illustration shows an anthropomorphized white garland house hopper (maratus scutulatus) that poses with big, cute eyes. A note beside it reads, "stared at me while I drew, then started posing." The second illustration shows an anthropomorphized cherry shrimp (neocaridina davidi) that gives a suspicious side eye, its arms relaxed below it to look like regular shrimp limbs. The note beside it reads, "Thinks I don't see it in the tank." The last illustration shows an anthropomorphized garden snail (cornu aspersum), that looks the most like a regular snail, but with two little arms. The note beside it reads, "found in a terrarium."
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "can a wispie fuse with something other than an arthropod (ex: mollusc, a fungi, or those yellow blob-thing-that-are-somewhat-intelligent), and if not, what makes arthropods able to fuse with wispies, and are there other species of wispie-like creature that can fuse with other things?"
A field-guide styled page illustrating and explaining how wispers are born. In four pencil-lined sketches it shows a bright light behind a grasshopper sitting on a stem, then the bright light taking a humanoid shape, then the bright light encompassing the grasshopper, and then the glowing grasshopper morphing into a humanoid version of itself. The fifth illustration shows the anthropomorphized green grasshopper, crouching on the stem and looking up, the glow fading away from it. There is text on the page. The heading says, "Observed: Birth of a Grasshopper Wisper (valanga irregularis - juvenile). There are annotations beside each sketch that says in order, "Glow observed near other grasshoppers that faded away), Insects seem unfazed.", "Humanoid shape?", "Bright flash.", "Only lasts a second.", "Morphs into humanoid form.", "New wisper born! Regarded me with caution before jumping away.". Beneath the last drawing is a block of text that says, "Hypothesis - Wispie seeks a host, seen by glowing near insects. When host is chosen, the wispie chooses what form to morph it into (humanoid shape 2) and combines with host in bright flash."
A question asked on the world of wispers straw page in regards to Quilbug's magic wisper species. It asks, "Is there a fixed number of wispies/wispers alive at any moment? And if not, where does all the energy/conscience of a wisper go when they die, is there a magical mana pool of wispies waiting to be reborn?"
A photo of a white garland house hopper spider in the middle of eating different species of jumping spider on a brown leaf. The house hopper spider has a fuzzy, light brown, chestnut shaped abdomen with four dark vertical stripes running along it. Its thorax, head and legs are hazel, shiny and almost half transparent, and it has a dark brown patch on the top of its head rimmed with white. It has six round black eyes and its chelicerae are stabbed inside its meal. The spider being eaten is yellow, orange and white. Its eyes, the same as the spider eating it, seem to stare at the other.
A three quarter front view photo of a maculate ladybug sitting near the edge of a green leaf. The background has a soft dark blue hue that lights the photo. The ladybug has a half-circle shape, its smooth elytron curves into a round slope down to its triangular head. It is mostly a dark orange colour with black splotchy spots on its elytron. It has two big black eyes, short antennae and segmented orange legs. Its mouthparts seem to be mid-movement.
A photo of a tiny fungus weevil sat near the edge of a green leaf, the leaf seems very large compared to it. The weevil has a compact, rounded abdomen and thorax that tapers down into the short snout on its face. It has stubby segmented legs, big rounded black eyes and long antennae with a slight curve. It is mostly a medium brown colour, with its thorax having mottled browns patterned in vertical stripes
A roughly coloured sketch of Beetle Knight and quilbugs insect persona standing back to back with weapons drawn, facing an unknown enemy. Beetle Knight stands firm and confident, wielding a serrated blade in two of four hands. Quil on the other hand stands shaking with terror, wielding a thorn blade in three out of four hands. Beetle Knight is a stout bug with dark grey chitin and a geometric head horn. Quil is a lanky green bug with transparent antennae and red and yellow bands on their back and abdomen.
A screenshot of a checklist on Vgen to become a verified artist. Three out of four requirements have been checked including commission earnings, commission reviews and the artist rating, leaving only the follower count.
A photo of a huntsman spider sitting politely on quilbugs hand. The spider is fuzzy, with rounded shapes for its head and abdomen, and long legs that taper at the ends. It's body is a light muted brown with mottled patterns.
A closeup photo of a light brown moth hiding beneath a dead leaf, zoomed in on its face. Its face and eyes are dark brown and have a hazy black pupil, its snout is fuzzy and pointed, its thin antennae are folded against its wing and it has tiny speckles all over the rest of its fluff.
A sideview photo of a little brown pony ant peering dramatically off the side of a long green leaf. The ant has small, cute proportions, spindly legs and wiggly antennae. Its little brown body is a shiny red-brown with a bubbly texture n its thorax and head.
A three quarter side view photo of a flatinae leafhopper sitting on the underside of a long leaf. The bug is a flat rectangular shape, the back of its wings making the end of the rectangle, then tapering into its front legs and beak-like head. It is a pale mint green colour, and its eyes are small with a smaller pupil dotted in the middle, giving it a shocked expression.
A roughly coloured sketch of AntsMcGee the cyber ant showing off their LED eyes flashing rainbow colours to Quilbugs insect persona, who jumps up pointing at them excitedly. Antz has a segmented brown-maroon body with pipes of aqua coloured cooling liquid visible on his shoulders, stomach and abdomen. They have spikey antennae and transparent ant wings. Quilbug is a little green insect with lanky limbs, transparent wings and red and yellow bands on their back and abdomen.
Quilbug as the goat from 'cult of the lamb' stands with a bowl containing the bits of a pig person follower. They elaborate from the previous comic while tilting their head and looking to the side, "Well I thought the 'deadly dish' was what the follower wanted, because its technically follower meat,"
A photo of a cicada shell clung onto mossy tree bark, angled diagonally. The shell is a reddish brown and transparent in some parts, you can see the green background shining through the eye, back and abdomen parts.