shane tolentino 🚀🌱💫

whoever came up with ladderback jacquard is a wizard. watched one knitting tutorial and my mind is absolutely blown

"IN OBSERVANCE & SOLIDARITY". Two black speech bubbles with white text read "HOURLY COMICS DAY IS NOW ON FEB 8TH. CARTOONISTS HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. FEB 1 - MAR 1". There is an illustration of a black silhouetted hand raised and holding a pen in the top right, and an illustration of a nib pen and an ink well personified on the bottom right. The nib and ink are bumping fists. A URL at the bottom is "hourlycomicsday.com".

Hourly Comics Day has MOVED!

It's the 20th anniversary and we're taking a stand alongside our Black cartoonist members and friends to demand a change to honor Black History Month- draw your comics on the 8th, not the 1st!

hourlycomicsday.com

#hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicday #hcd

crab #sketch for your saturday 🦀

continuing with the pile theme, a #sketch of some seashells for your saturday

last year i took used my zoo sponsored mental health day to do the most indulgent thing i could think of doing, which was drawing a bone pile for 3 hours lol. #sketch for your saturday 🦴

another #sketch for your saturday of chestnuts from the plants of the world exhibit at the field

#sketches for your saturday for the cover of the book of student poetry I worked on earlier this year!

bird #sketch for your saturday lol

'tis the season! #artvsartist2025 #artvsartist

midnight snack #sketch for your saturday 🥒

this is why everyone hates Ohio

there’s a car with an Ohio license plate on my block that’s been parked blocking the crosswalk for the last three days and it’s turning me evil. yes 311 was called, yes tickets were issued lol

artwork of the creature from frankenstein (2025). the creature is the central figure, his body abstracted into the swathes of blues and greens, with a tinge of red, with details of furs of his coat and candles lit with red flames. his torso is carved out, exposing red flesh and a heart connected with veins that have some sprouting flowers, and the final scene of the creature embracing the morning sun. framing the creature are various body parts as well as the halves of victor and elizabeth's faces.

i love frankenstein (2025) so much

#art

An illustration of Alexei Leonov's spacewalk. A person in a white spacesuit with red details floats above their spaceship which is blue with bright white highlights. Around them floats a tether cable and the vastness of space is seen in the background

Me when I exit my tube to be in the void of space 🧑‍🚀 Alexei Leonov was a Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to do a spacewalk. Except from Big Moments in Space by Collins Big Cat (HarperCollins UK) published earlier this year!

#sketch for your saturday of a veryyyy little guy 🐧

And don't even get me started about the pale blue dot. If I think too much about Carl Sagan talking about that photo, I will start crying

Working on my book about Voyager is a combination of "Yay! Yippee! I'm working on a book!" but then also feeling very deeply emo about space. I love it

chaotic #sketch for your saturday while i peck out some stars ✨

shane looking at some beautiful hand-painted letters outside a coffee shop in kansas city

red bellied woodpecker on a tree

partially knit Cloud Sweater in some off white acrylic yarn

two monstera plants facing a window

Talked to some undergrads recently and found myself very thankful and fortunate to have time to spend on hobbies now. When I’m not at my desk, here’s what I might be up to:

Small green insect (lacewing) sitting on top of a leaf among other leaves

Group of insects on a pink background- mealy bug destroyers, predatory mites, golden chalcid predatory wasps, lacewing

Jamaican iguana laying on top of a log surrounded by foliage

Dealing with gnats in my indoor plants made me think of my illustrations of beneficial predator insects for the zoo 🪲

aw this is my local yarn store!!! :’))) i love this so much, I can’t wait to get this as a print!!!

yes!! i’ve got a converter for the ink inside too hehe

candle illustrations inside of a sketchbook done in black ink. a green fountain pen sits in the sketchbook gutter

#sketch for your saturday!! 🕯️

lil study of a still life painting by Severin Roesen
#digitalart

Page from a manuscript with ornamentation and decorative borders.

Page from an Arabic script manuscript with diagonally oriented text and decorative borders.

Page from a manuscript with a painted illustration.

Page from an Arabic script manuscript with diagonally oriented text and decorative borders.

Yusuf and Zulaikha (يوسف وزليخة), unknown scribe, 1880–1910, Kashmir.
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This Muslim story was adapted in Persian by Jami in the 15th century. See the full illuminated manuscript in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...
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#Persian #Quran #YusufAndZulaikha #Calligraphy #Nastaliq

thank you!!! she’s actually a little more saturated irl. this is lion brand wool ease in forest green heather :))

photo of several knitting items on a red chair. starting at 11 going clockwise, a set of bamboo knitting needles. a pack of gold stitch markers. a gauge swatch knit in stockinette. a knit sweater project on circular needles. the sweater is being knit top down (collar first). the collar is k1p1 ribbing folded over and the body is stockinette. the green yarn being used to knit the sweater.

we have graduated from knitting socks to knitting a sweater!!

watercolor of 3 geese walking into a library. text above reads "okay ladies now let's get information"

yes girls!!!

colored pencil drawing of a baby king crab in a sketchbook. there are half bits of other drawings in ink and pencil around the crab

thinking abt that baby king crab

Did you know that the USPS delivers 44% of the world's mail and is a critical part of our infrastructure? #weloveusps