my bad everyone i’ve been out of town and then i embarked on my training arc tm

i discovered art marker brushes on photoshop. my whole world has changed

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getting medicated made me realize that… I actually don’t mind doing cleaning chores. like dishes, vacuuming, cleaning the bathroom, stuff like that… I actually kinda like it…?! it’s taking out the trash that’s the real killer.

Giselle illustration wip evolution. Lately if I do an illustration I like to do a rough color/value as part of the sketch

Detail 🥰

game crashed in the middle of the dmc3 boss rush level when i was at the last boss 💀 had to redo the whole boss rush again 💀💀💀

the hidden passage

a new comic concept (actually an old comic concept)

went to an exhibition where artists painted film stills or had stylized takes on it and i think ur fave is in here @hazelblad.bsky.social (already sold...)

i used to handwrite the text in almost all of my comics but nowadays i don’t anymore, even though i kinda miss doing so… i feel like having the same “hand” in the drawings as well as the text creates a kind of unity that’s really nice

SOON!! along with other news

A ballet called Giselle #ballet #illustration

lifestyle outtakes #photo

A ballet called Giselle #ballet #illustration

the other night when i was having trouble sleeping, i put on one of those sleepy history videos about greek mythology. the stories were interesting but unfamiliar to me. when i googled them, it turned out the video writer just made them up. extremely upsetting and distressing

another personal wip. thinking a lot about the royal ballet's production of r&j

during the day: lie around because i got no energy or motivation to do anything during the night: i want to make 2739274928 comics and drawings. omg.

how did a chinese gacha game do devil may cry better than an officially licensed animated show

🗡️ #DMC

when i was in school i took a fashion illustration class, and one of the classes we took a trip to the costume shop at new york city ballet. years later i’m still obsessed with stage costuming and design

the satisfaction i get from a really nicely made spreadsheet is probably not neurotypical

old aerti art <3

graduated from “what did you get on the math test” to “what rank did you get on [insert savage raid from final fantasy 14 online here]”

Cez of Drăculești, for the upcoming visual novel Drăculești

to me, “you should create for yourself” and “you deserve to be acknowledged for what you make” are two statements that should coexist. chasing engagement will rot your soul, while being neglected will see your passion wither. loving what you make is a failsafe for when the engagement never comes.

another ballet cooldown

cooldown drawing from last night

i talked before about trying infinity nikki because i love dress-up games, but it hit me today when i was thinking about how anguished i was trying to glamour my character before savage raids dropped: ffxiv is MY dress-up game.

summary of the last month in under 300 characters: commission grind, then hardcore raiding in ffxiv made my wrist go funny, then more commission grind, and i got one year older

a personal wip between commission work

someone on tumblr wrote a bunch in the tags about my swan lake piece… like how odette takes on the burden of the swan maidens as their queen etc. and i’m just like… wow people are so smart

thank you for appreciating her 🥰 i, um. already have an embarrassingly high HR

I like my Monster Hunter character a regular amount

making up for lack of posting lately with some comic wips (this is what I really fell into a hole drawing)

tripped and fell into monster hunter wilds. sorry

fell down the comic work hole again but hopefully soon i will have some previews to show, or maybe i’ll be brave enough to show WIPs from it

some other snake-related art i did 🐍

year of the what.. #metalgearsolid

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genshin, despite everything, has done a lot to help heal my relationship to my heritage, so i thought some fanart for the biggest holiday in china would be nice 🥰 also since it’s literally year of the wood snake—baizhu has a snake and is dendro element? it’s baizhu year.

happy new year 🧧

i don’t know what works i’d put in my comics dna. it would probably be a lot of shoujo manga though. and honestly i think i draw as much if not more inspiration from films and tv also!!

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

i don’t regret buying a tablet in the slightest but i sometimes wonder if it prevents me from drawing spontaneously

it may be time to download infinity nikki. it may be time to humor the 8 year old version of me who loved dress up games and played all the dress up barbie pc games for hours on end

having a link to sponsor a personal work is so neat... i guess in a way, that’s what patreon is for, but i’ve always felt too self-conscious for something like that