Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!

A Mienshao for you troubles? . . . . . . . . . . . #Mienshao #Pokemon #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

PKMN Trainer Monte wants to battle! . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #pixelart #ArtistOnBlueSky

A beaming smile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Chesnaught #Pokemon #pixelart #ArtistOnBlueSky

A redraw of Termite, my Fire-Wood Kholo Kineticist from Pathfinder! . . . . . . . . . . . #Kholo #Pathfinder2e #Kineticist #TTRPG

Some fun doodles. . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Lycanroc #Samurott #Floatzel #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

Happy New Year from Malaysia!

@arukona.pmd.social Merry Christmas! Here is your raffle prize! I hope you like how it turned out it! . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Obstagoon #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

@lexezlao.bsky.social Merry Christmas! Here is your raffle prize! I hope you like how it turned out! . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Toxtricity #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

@shady.lucario.social Merry Christmas! Here is your raffle prize! I hope you like how it turned out! . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Lucario #digitalart #ArtistOnBluesky

I like to imagine if PMD was something like a JRPG sometimes… . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #digitalart #ArtistOnBluesky #Chesnaught #PokemonMysteryDungeon

AI will never understand the reason why people hone crafts. Every bit of art, every bit of struggle, every misplaced Spanish word, every errant note I play, I persevere because learning things wasn't something like credentials to me or a thing I would flaunt.

Congratulations to: @shady.lucario.social and @lexezlao.bsky.social! I will be drawing your prizes as soon as I can!

Tendré fe.

One more day before I close it and draw the winners!

Optimism for me has never been the denial of the negative. Covering your ears and eyes and ignoring the bad things in life and only considering positive is denial, not optimism. Optimism implies the acceptance of the negative and not forgetting the positive despite it.

Hey everyone! You have about 1 week left to enter if you plan to!

Remember the kindness of the world. The person who held the door for you when you had your hands full. The person who let you go first in a line for the bathroom. The person who gave a nice comment on your work. The people who would smile to you when you spoke. Remember this exists.

A continuation! As usual, tell me which is your favourite! . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #digitalart #PokemonMysteryDungeon #ArtistOnBluesky #Floatzel

Quick practice. . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Delphox #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

A project I have going on. If you’ve stuck with me since the Twitter days, you know exactly what this is! Tell me which is your favourite! . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Floatzel #digitalart #ArtistOnBluesky #PokemonMysteryDungeon

All of you who decided you would pick up a tool and draw — you move me. It's the reason why I strive, because many like me are striving the same. It may not be perfect, and mine may not be perfect, but it's ours. If people are trying so hard, I want to do that too!

Kindness is defiance.

Hello everyone! I'm accepting commissions again! This time the money destination has changed! Read more here: monteblanque.wixsite.com/montescrib

What happens when you take off your glasses? Also good test to see if people can even read this thing hahaha . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Floatzel #Lucario #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

20 minutes. Cool! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Arcanine #digitalart #Pokemon #ArtistOnBlueSky

ko-fi.com/thatonefrogx... I didn't want to do this, but I am being pushed over the edge. I'm still working on commissions but I am severely strained, both physically and mentally. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, and I apologize for not meeting my standards. 💔

Have you ever heard of light attenuation? It's a process in which light "decays" when travelling longer distances in different mediums. There's attenuation in the air, in water, in other mediums. In art, it creates a very nice dynamic "spotlight" effect that creates good chiaroscuro!

AUGHHH 😭 This means a lot to me you can't imagine... Thank you...

Commission I did for @unclearpowerplant.com of their character, Grant! I posted both versions because I didn’t know which to pick. I hope it was worth it! 🙇‍♂️ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Typhlosion #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

Commission I did for @viroro.bsky.social of their characters, Childe (Riolu) and Havar (Growlithe)! I hope it was worth it! 🙇‍♂️ . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Growlithe #Riolu #ArtistOnBlueSky #digitalart

Oh wow, this is such a difficult question. I like my OCs all for different reasons, and dislike them for different reasons too. My comfort character to draw is Sorbet, I suppose he would be my favourite one? It's hard to just quantify things like this though hahaha.

Happy International Men's Day! Remember, you are more than just the bread winner of the family that only has anger for their emotions. Men can be sensitive, and gentle too, and they most definitely can use the dreaded four letter word — "help". Love, Monte.

Happy Zoroark Day! I drew my character, Filo to celebrate! . . . . . . . . . . . . #Pokemon #Zoroark #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky #ZoroarkDay

Hey everyone! Commissions are back up! This time I'm helping a guy out, he's bsky.app/profile/navv.... Do consider commissioning me and help him out! You get to give money to someone who needs it, and you get art on top of it! monteblanque.wixsite.com/montescrib

You had little money, but you bought my commission anyway. Sharing this is the least I can do? I don't know? Hahaha. Please support this person. Help them out!

Living in Brazil is hell. There's not much I can do other than say that in eight days I might be sleeping on the streets! The good news is December is looking to be an easier month. The bad news is that it's not December. Sleeping in concrete might not be bad. Share or donate. ko-fi.com/navar

‼️RAFFLE ALERT‼️ Hello everyone! I’m going to be holding a raffle for 400 followers! Two winners will be selected (ideally) before Christmas Eve, to receive ONE drawing. Comment a ref below THIS post to submit an entry!

Dear old friend, The day has long ended, midnight has passed. The date yesterday that found its final minutes, you passed away, I heard from the mouth of our mutual friends. Today, we held a party in the club we were in together, and you were in the minds of I assume many today. I love you.

Hard to say, I've recently discovered I really like gummies! I also really like corn based chips, like tortilla chips, and a type of corn puff like Toki (I'm not sure if these puffs are global, but it's kind of a classic in Malaysia!)

Madhu, Beast of the West. . . . . . . . . . . . . #Obstagoon #Pokemon #digitalart #ArtistOnBlueSky

Process? What’s that? Kekeke In all honesty, I don’t have a pipeline I follow. Most of the time I follow a feeling. Usually these feelings can be summarised into a sentence or a word, then I expand upon it. I have a base design going, then the lore comes by answering the question “why”!

I saw some friends of mine do this and I think it would be pretty interesting to hear from you all! monteblanque.straw.page

The art of complimenting is something I notice not a lot of people have. Complimenting someone involves proof, otherwise it comes across as shallow and insincere. It doesn't have to be objective proof, it could all be subjective!

Ever heard of "Por un perro que maté, mataperro me llamaron"? It means "For a dog I killed, dog-killer they called me." It comes at no surprise that negative acts have a stronger impression than positive ones.

It takes a special empathy to realise that what you see isn't always the reality of the person you're empathizing and to try and imagine what if possibly, the opposite of what you see is true for them.

I'll be going on a huge rant to talk about something. Do you ever wish you were good at something but you can't really grasp what exactly was the thing you needed to be good at? So you divulge into objective metrics to figure out what sates the idea of what "you want" but never come to a conclusion.

Happy Halloween everyone!