Oh look at the date, it's January 29th... the "tNniversary". Last August I was testing a slightly different Seir design and so I decided to finish something about it for today. Also gave me an excuse to redraw his front facing bust. The sketchy headshots are from last year, the rest is brand new

"It feels like it's been forever since I was thrown here. My body grows weaker, the pain grows harder to bear... But the moon's soothing gaze always seems to refill my strength." --- My first drawing of 2026.

I made an updated side headshot for Sellatrix too! The old one bothered me even more than Verloren's old headshot. Like the original, there's also alt versions for no-hood and the other hairstyle she wears sometimes

Sellatrix doesn't take her tasks very seriously. She doesn't care if she loses this job anyway since she never really wanted it much in the first place. She would gladly just live in the middle of a forest, growing some crops, raising some rabbits... scaring passersby with her witchcraft...

I have updated the side headshot for Verloren! I use these as the main ref for my characters and I haven't really been using the old one anymore as it no longer looks accurate to how I draw him. Not like I really need to use a ref for him at this point but anyway...

Forgot to post this one here, it's based on a pic I took of them in Petz: shenzaibird-art.tumblr.com/post/8038576... Also there's long text because of course there is: shenzaibird-art.tumblr.com/post/8040616...

Verloren was confident that after tomorrow's audience, he'd finally be able to fully get back to things, without the worry that he was about to lose all of his work. One last audience, and he would have peace... ...But oh well, you know how that went... :)

Like most necromages working at the Houndsdagger Castle, Sellatrix also sought lucan body parts to use in her craft. But while many of them relied on private deals with suppliers, Sellatrix was particularly fond of hunting for her own victims in the wild.

I've been having some technical difficulties the whole month, ranging from getting a new display to almost losing many files so... I haven't been drawing much Have a generic Verloren face sketch, one of many that look extremely similar lol

And there were also collies!! THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I lurked near the collies (and shelties) for a long time. I've been having TERRIBLE puppy fever lately. I know I want a collie puppy as my first dog, and I even know what I'll name her... and meeting all these collies DID NOT HELP.

This past weekend I went to a dog show for the first time and it was fun! I don't even have a dog but I love dogs, and it was so cool to see many different dog breeds I had never seen in real life! I saw a borzoi!! I PET A REAL LIFE BORZOI PUP!!! Her fur was so soft! She was so pretty!

🎃 Spooky Time >:3 🎃 (I've been working on many things, none of which will be ready for posting anytime soon because I keep hopping between things, unsure what would be the coolest to release first...)

Commission for Norn!

Commission for Efraim!

Commissions for Razz Redcrest, Cinder Collie, Whisky Tango

Commissions for Squipplepuff, Roku, Jay x2

Commissions for Obelisk, Jynn, Clanga, Maki!

Commissions for Morley, Zaphier, Rovoska x2

My commissions are CLOSED... 🎉FOREVER🎉 Like anything ever, it would be too long a post for bsky character limit, so here you go: shenzaibird-art.tumblr.com/post/7949518... tl;dr No more commissions so I can actually do more OC stuff

Did anyone else miss him too or is it just me? (I'll be waking up from the dead very soon I promise.)

ArtFight attack on Starling by @catlidoscope.bsky.social !

ArtFight attack on Aviel by @malnovamortis.bsky.social !

It's been two whole years since Verloren became my main OC today! Here's an older art that I never posted. It's from November 2023, which was like four months after the redesign I think he looks a bit younger on this pic so this is probably when he had just moved to Houndsdagger #furry #ocs #ocsky

Hm how useful are tags on here? Should I sacrifice post text to add many tags to my posts? What are some good OC arts/stories tags that people actually use and browse? I'm trying to get used to browsing bsky but I haven't really managed to get into it yet, wondering if finding cool tags would help

Finally publishing the little rewrite I had been working on (which unreasonably took me many months to finish) Now it even has its own silly title too! If you haven't read it before, now it's slightly more nicely written at least heh Link here: shenzaibird.neocities.org/s/stories/st...

Commission for Ouiji! #furry #furryart #magic

Commissions for Jynn, Wyndham, Zidijan, Terry Maize! #furry #furryart

Commissions for GoodKarma Pigeon, Mikasa, Harker Perin x2 #furry #furryart

I can't ever stick to a single deadline... It's past the middle of June and I haven't finished the thing I wanted to post first as part of my OCposting and I'm sad cause that's gonna be so fun and I can't wait but I can never finish anything ever *shaking this stupid dog* stop being so useless god

Commission for Stol'rus! #furry #furryart

Commission for Digital Potato! #furry #furryart #dragon

Commission for Nezumi! #furry #furryart #avali

Commission for Jay! #furry #furryart

Commission for Venture! #furry #furryart

Hi I'm not dead hehe! This was gonna be just a quick post about what I'm currently up to, but it got too long so you'll have to read over here: shenzaibird-art.tumblr.com/post/7818100... (If you even care about a random dog's lengthy ramblings about OCs stuff heh)

Commission for Arrow Quivershaft! #furry #furryart

Commission for Athi! #furry #furryart

Commission for Regular! A fanart of Simon from Guardians of Ga'Hoole! #furry #furryart

Commission for Swoop! #furry #furryart

I have renamed this account to @ShenzaiBird-art because I created a new account that I'll be using to repost other people's art and random stuff, and I wanted to keep the naming scheme the same as my tumblrs lol Anyway, my new reposting account is @shenzaibird.bsky.social if anybody wanna follow :D

Hi there, I'm Shenzai and I have a million OCs and stories in my head that I keep wanting to yell to the world about! There will be magic, blood and evil dogs... (once I'm able to get back to doing OC art...) For OC info, stories and other cool stuff, check out my website: shenzaibird.neocities.org

Commission for Sausage! #furry #furryart

Commission for Kona! #furry #furryart

Commission for Eyrlumi! #furry #furryart #avali

I just sent someone an invoice numbered 665 and I'm like... wow, that's been a lot of commissions. Went to check and I started using invoices for commissions in May 2018. So that's nearly 7 years of commissions! Now who wants to be my invoice #666? >:D

Commission for Raven! #furry #furryart

It was my birthday on Feb 26th and I spent basically the entirety of the night until the morning looking at the stars and taking pics of them and drawing... My new obsession. I really like Canis Major. I couldn't really see all of its stars in the actual sky but I saw them on a pic I took