✨On Hiatus for September✨ Taking an SNS break to recalibrate, refocus, and touch grass aka trying to break my phone addiction. If you are a pal, you know where to find me. Everyone else, feel free to email me (email in bio). I will be returning for spooky season in October🎃🍂

trying very hard not to compare my art with other people's blargh. I feel so behind.

winging things right in pen rather than having a precise sketch is kinda refreshing

Finrod, King of Nargothrond

Me tomorrow: 🍂🥮🧡🎻📚📑🍁🍃👓🫖🍵🕰️🏛

My web shop is now open! You can find the link in the bio. I have a new manga release, postcards, and more—hope you enjoy browsing! Overseas - akeboshikinsei.bigcartel.com Japan - akeboshi.booth.pm #oc

(wip) animation's making a lot more sense now...

I keep forgetting it's a three day weekend. THREE DAY WEEKEND ETYYYYYY

Little hedgehog friend 🦔🌼🌱 #art #cuteart #traditionalart

Anatomy for Sculptors is having a labor day sale, perhaps it is time to pull the trigger on that purchase

anyway, reminder that I am going to go MIA from SNS during the month of September. pals, you know where to find me. everyone else, feel free to email me (email in bio). gotta go touch some grass.

why is it always the clients with the shortest rush deadlines that are the pickiest and want the largest number of revisions

MxM, because I was born female so that means I'm a gross nasty fetishist who is a danger to men, especially trans men (no joke, an ex-'friend' friend broke up with me and that was his reason)

Pros: my boss bought us all tikka masala for lunch and it was absolutely delicious Cons: that was the spiciest "medium" I've probably ever had

today's tea is Japanese Applewood Smoked Black Tea and I'm pretty sure my office at work now smells like BBQ

it's OC brainrot hours

old art, OC Ara been thinking about him a lot recently since you'll be seeing him in a likely NSFW lil comic next year in a ziiiine

Richard Gray, 2007

tired

damn, of course I tried a new tea today and it's absolutely delicious and I want more but it can only be ordered from Japan💔

my parcel finally escaped Iowa and made it into WI🎉

Took a continuous two mile walk outside of the subdivision for the first time since March 😭❤️

I love coming home to refund checks from insurance because I overpaid for medical stuff 10/10, would appreciate these types of letters every day lol

ok well one parcel I thought the postal service ate the company never shipped on accident somehow and they're shipping it ASAP tomorrow+ tossing in some type of freebie as an apology. that was a better resolution than I anticipated (tho who knows, the postal service could still eat it).

I'm so confused, I have a parcel that made it to Chicago (a few hours from me) but now it went back to Iowa??? Which is 6hrs or more from me.

how is it monday why is it monday

Going to bed at 10:30pm on a Sunday w/breakfast and lunch prepped for tomorrow like a well adjusted human? who am I, wtf is this

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me, a dumbass: what if I tried submitting to another thing that has a deadline in 3 weeks

it's so humid I move around for 2.5 seconds to clean and I turn into a puddle of sweat

RIP I think my vacuum just bit the dust

I'm trying to clean and there are BOOKS EVERYWHERE. here a book, there a book, everywhere a book book.

Cooked up another piece of album/single art of my sona, inspired by a conversation with @elegantlab.bsky.social about how amongst other things, the phrase "Vapid Human Art" would make for a great name for an album #digitalart #art #sona #sonaart #darkart #vampire

zines really are going to get me off my artistic arse & make me Do Stuff (this is good)

also tried making tea from the spearmint I grew. it tastes nice, except my brain associates spearmint with toothpaste. it was like drinking a nice toothpaste flavored tea. I will just grow peppermint next year😂

now going to roast acorn squash because it is autumn in my heart

I have finally succeeded in making crispy waffles

im so ready for autumn, I'm SO READY

I love my neighbor using a loud weed whacker at 7am on a Saturday

oh Liar Game is getting an anime *vague recollection of reading it and watching the live action show with an ex* maybe I'll give that a go when it comes out

wow enjoying life again and not feeling like ass 100% of the time is pretty cool. still achy & tired & adjusting from surgery, but getting there slowly.

indie stuff is great, where else could you get a perfume that smells like a pizza crust

peppermint tea made from my peppermint plants is so delightful

the terrible discovery some perfume oils may not send me to headache land the way alcohol-based perfume does

I joked a while back that artists should bring back webrings, but I'm kind of not joking. I think artists should start linking to each other's personal sites, carrds, etc. (with permission). As search engines succumb to enshittification, this sort of "word of mouth" increases in value

カラー原稿の達人: 小島文美 The Masters of Color: Kojima Ayami -Interview Translation Thread- of the interview with Kojima Ayami from the 1999 book The Color Kingdom 3 (色彩王国 3).

very excited, signed up to do the fall exchange on the indie makeup reddit. it looks so fun, people go all out with their parcels and I LOVE doing that shit