Four Spores: Four

Rake Flower, 6" x 4-1/2", pen on paper, 2012

Four Spores: Three

My reframing of this Perfect Recreation™

                                         
The anteater's tongue reminds me of the above fig plant's frame-roots (or the fig plant's tongues, which roots kinda are). This game looks like Pac-Man but it's way harder and way creepier and makes an anteater's struggle to eat ants seem like a deadly and insurmountable (yet sonically groovy) enterprise.

Four Spores: Two

An MS Paint hybrid of an iris and an otyugh.

Four Spores: One

Palmistry, 6" x 4-1/2", pencil on paper, 2012

Image of drawing taken atop a book illustration of "The Tale of the Fisherman" (or "The Fisherman and the Jinni", or "The Story of the Fisherman") from Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (or Stories of the Arabian Nights, or...). The covered illustration corresponds to the following text: But once the nets were up out of the water the old man was sadly disappointed, for they contained no fish, but only the carcass of a donkey. The automaton in my drawing might be drawing energies through its sword from the entombed giant ninja head. Or, the automaton is being enervated by that very same head, an assault compounded by the arrow-limbed spider materializing in its midst (see below). On second thought, all of the characters in the drawing appear to have a fragmentary twin: the automaton/ninja head, the complete/skeletal shoulder dragons, the many-legged arrow-spider and the nascent one accompanying the ninja-head. 

Palmistry (detail)
Pollen as spores as stipples, split sleeves with graphite ripples...