Terrified of the day I make something that really pops off lmao I've skirted it a few times now, but now that I'm committed to not self-sabotaging, I have to be prepared to accept it.

Or like someone will be on the right course and then someone else comes in and is like "no stupid, that can't be true" and then the first person "corrects" themselves lmao

The Koboldathon is LIVE right now at www.twitch.tv/koboldfactory for every donation made to my ko-fi i will be drawing a random new kobold on the same canvas. if the canvas fills up i increase the resolution!!

I had a bit of an epiphany recently. I want to get weirder with my art. Cut deeper. Be more emotionally real. Now that I'm not suppressing myself, these walls I've built have become paper-thin. Time to shatter them.

Thinking about the 25 year anniversary article that deviantart put up that amounted to: "Yeah we implemented ai even though you hated it, but number go up, so suck it"

Glad to see this ai bubble shit finally starting to pop. Get fucked

I think my favorite technical thing to animate in 2D is changes in perspective, making things feel 3-dimensional while keeping the appeal of 2D drawings. It's hard for unusual shapes, but when I pull it off, the effect is intoxicating.

260319 pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQG0AU... press X to randomise #pico8 #dailycarts

Feels a little full circle doing fanart for a Glitch production when one of my old gmod maps got used in early SMG4 productions

Wowie!

New episode was *really* good

Here have a couple random sketches from last week

There's a certain threshold where if you put enough work into something no one realizes just how much work it took. Past week I did the best rotoscope job of my life, sketching over an animated 3D model in Clip Studio and shading it by hand. Someone assumed it was a filter lmao

Every time I finish an animation job, my desire to just sit down and make more 2D animation increases substantially.

I have been super busy the past 19 days

Anno is joking. He's buds with both Miyazaki and Tomino (Gundam) and knows that they didn't even really breakout until their late 30s/40s. Anno himself was 35 when NGE came out. Despite what you may have heard, Japanese people can be funny and sarcastic on purpose.

Have a couple Sonic doodles from the past few days in the meantime

idk how many people remember this brief thing in 2019 where I made a fursona (No the guy in my avatar isn't a sona, he's just one of my characters lol) I stopped using him because I didn't relate and wanted a redesign, but life got in the way. Well, now I'm finally doing it lol

I love getting reactions from people when I tell them I do all my pixel art (including animations and pixel textures) in GIMP Yes I own both Aseprite and Pro Motion

YET AGAIN I posted new character art to bluesky as a response to a meme and forgot to properly upload it here on its own first!! Mallet shows you what she's got up her sleeves!!! #ChaoArt #OC #Mallet

I'm at a point where it's not just "easier" to draw again, but it is *consistently* fun now, even when it's hard. Almost at 3 weeks of this mental shift and it feels like I'm almost at a point where this is starting to feel "normal" finally.

Properly learning cartooning and appeal has done way more for my art than years of learning anatomy has, even for my anatomy-focused art.

Definitely going to be drawing and posting my characters more often. Thank you to everyone who has shown me support and kindness over these. <3

Someday I aspire to make a 2D animation that's fully shaded. Nothing long, but something with fun stylized lighting that isn't 3D or cel shaded.

Thank you for the love! Here's a bigger sketch of her <3

Thank you for the love! Here's a bigger sketch of her <3

I don't really like posting art if I relied too much on reference in a work, but I figure linking to the thing I used for reference helps. I originally wasn't going to post it, but I really liked the vibe she gives off in that pose/dress.

More Nicole sketches from a couple days ago. I don't normally draw her in a dress, but I saw an extremely pretty pic that inspired me, I'll link it below.

I sometimes run out of things to say, but I cherish the comments I get on my work. I know people these days also struggle with things to say, particularly positive or constructive feedback, so know I don't take it for granted when someone takes the time.

Gift art I made of @hyperchaotix.bsky.social's character Nicole!

More Nicole

Got hit by inspiration and did some sketches of Nicole last night

I like Sonic and all, but I'm kinda getting sick of mostly posting Sonic art so much lately lol Gonna be drawing more of my own characters and more expanded ideas, plus stuff I wanted to practice more like fashion and environments. Mostly want to change the ratio of fan art to my own stuff.

what are some other ones we can find in this place?

I always miss shading stuff when I stop doing it for a while, so have this.

Sonic CD has the most wonderful and stylish enemies of all time. I want to pick them all up and take them home

"Drybrush smear" experiment 1

It's honestly nuts that I sometimes still feel like a newcomer to the table when I've been making digital art for nearly 20 years at this point. Maybe it's because I started so young?

Oh yeah, I still need to talk about how I did this lol I'll see about doing it sometime this week. I want to figure out a simple parallax rig first. Getting some good results from shader-driven stuff.

Forgot to post this toony Tails I drew a few days ago lol

I sketch on one big canvas until it is full, have a random sample from today.

For the past week and a half, I feel like I've started to rekindle the joy of having made something and a sense of pride in my work, a feeling I haven't felt in years. I've enjoyed the process, but usually I feel nothing after the fact, so this is a nice change.

"Reboot" (Art from 2020)

Something I think is funny as a background character detail is several games hint at Sonic being a little bit of a gambling addict.

Another sketch from the same night

Quick "large pixel art" experiment from a couple days ago. Part of a larger idea, we'll see how that pans out.

Amber Tree Forest (2025)

No End In Sight (2020) #digitalpainting

Hyperchaotix Illustration (2023)

Aether (2023) for @astrasilverhorn.bsky.social