So the group and I put together a flyer for the card game project to share in the hopes of drawing up interest in it. it's a tad crude but it does it's job. wanted to share it here.

So in learning about Journey to the west, I've learned that apparently that's where most if not all anime nonsense comes from. No wonder it get's referenced so often! Also it's got a lot of beef with Taoism it seems, granted I think it's partially supposed to be Buddhist propaganda.

Wukong's been on my mind mainly because I've been doing some study on Chinese myth and legend, starting with journey to the west. part of it is gathering inspiration for something, part of it is also just so I can finally know about the series that get's reference all the time in media.

I mentioned this a year ago but I still feel kind of weird about wukong being in metazoo, but I also don't have a strong argument for why he shouldn't be in here. It seems like the reboot expands into creatures of myth and legends and not explicitly cryptids...

Okay so I just cracked this open and I really want to share it because the art is absolutely fire and the artist really cooked with this! This is the type of art I love in tcgs, where the environment is as important as the subject of the card

You know, American children's media would be lost without the xylophone. Like seriously, every alphabet song would be in a real awkward situation with the letter "X" otherwise.

So I'll admit that I've been steadily collecting metazoo 2 cards, not only are booster packs cheap at $4 a pack but the artwork is vibrant and lively. Only one shop sells them here and I think I'm the only one buying them, but that's fine, everything else is getting annoyingly expensive.

Life is rough but you have to carry on, it's easy to feel glum after a big setback and it's easy to start catastrophizing. I probably need a break from news in general as well, especially when it's just one big parade of horrible things.

It sucks really, like there's no guarantee that life and your environment will get better but it will most certainly get worse and each day gives more evidence of it. What is there to hope for really? What is there to believe in? All I can do is hang onto what little I still have.

It's so hard to keep hope anymore, feels like despite my efforts, my life is steadily going out of hand. can't find better work at all and what I'm doing is barely making ends meet. it feels like it's only a matter of time before I find myself on the streets again in my vain efforts to stay afloat.

So I've been working on initial illustrations for cards in my card game, mainly for the starter decks I've been working on, starting with the red one. Evasion is important in a game of dodgeball with balloon creatures, and red has the best evasion options out of the 4 color.

Every day brings with it a new set of bad news from society at large to my immediate circumstances. It's hard to feel hope for the world and life in general.

So ICE has arrived in my state, and aren't too far from my city...

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

Explode some fat dinosaur/ kaiju. Originally, the owner of the Kaiju use A.I. to generate his character crushing my friend's character head (Yellow hair girl). So, I made this animation to get him back.

So I need to gather some data on something and I might as well not beat around the bush. In a card game where the creatures are all inflatables of some form. what kind of things would you like to see in terms of creatures or creature types?...

I honestly find it quite annoying how often I find myself getting stuck on youtube shorts. it always starts with that one curious video and then you're in a chain of shorts. It's like falling for the same dumb trap over and over again. I don't want my attention span weathered away!

Have some old-ish art from about three years ago, featuring everyone's favorite "this actually canonically happened"/"I drew this before the perfect parry ruined it" boss "WYVERN" from hit game "Sonic Frontiers". #inflation #inflationart

Been doing some study on seam placement and inflatable design from something @kronogarrett.bsky.social shared with me. Main thing I've gleamed is a sort of "beachball"or bloated cube pattern that seems to make up most of the forms.

Update: it ended up being a new PFP for the funny inflation PMDnD game

and furries love to talk that command grab inflation thing you can do to him with Jedah but no one talk about how is right up impossible to land it in a real fight because that mf move too much and it was during a time Capcom made command grabs too short in range.

Finally finished another scene for my silly ass project 🎊 Only took uuh, 7 months to get to it haha..

Been working on stuff with my card game to help with teaching new folks how to play it, created a new playmat with turn phase reminders, and a PDF Game manual that exists on the table in TTS. It's a lot of work but hopefully it pays off, at least the new mats look nicer than the old green ones.

So once again, I made the mistake of trying to play Commander again. This time ended with a condescending lecture on why I should consider playing more competitively so that game could go quicker! And this is coming from the guy playing a multiple upkeeps + treasure tokens spam deck...

I've been getting a lot of political cartoon in my feed lately, but a particularly annoying trend are the ones that mock people for seeing their country become a dictatorship and do nothing about it. Like... What do you want me to do? I'm just a broke-ass food carrier!...

So there's a fair bit of interesting lore behind this series, like apparently DaddyLoong's background is that from birth he was assigned a water ditch to manage but lost it due to urban expansion bulldozing it and then became unemployed, so he came to Hangzhou and got a job as a programmer...

So for whatever reason, youtube recommended a 4 year old series of japanese(?) short animations about a family where the husband is a yellow noodle dragon with a human wife and a son who is also a dragon. just figured folks in my circle would like to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxpy...

Been looking through old dev recordings, this was basically a proof of concept for bossfights and the whole idea of "strain damage" caused by keeping a boss overinflated as an alternate way of dealing damage. the boss sprite was borrowed from @squidblimp9x.bsky.social

Okay so what happened to the audio on this old video I just posted? within the first 10 seconds it just fades out. that was never in the original video. Has that happened to anyone here?

Lately I've been thinking about that gamemaker RPG I was working on, the one that's basically earthbound but you can inflate enemies and they inflate too and stuff. Been contemplating getting back onto it, but am also mildly frightened about the spaghetti code I'd have to return to...

Emil indulges in some fun with a giant #inflatable #Leomon and does some expanding himself. Hopefully there's enough capacity for the sabertooth's impressive...output. Starting 2026's art submissions with something spicy as I finish off last year's work. #digimon #lion #smilodon #furryart #nsfw

A simple, rough illustration of the lizard monster from my game projects back in 2024, while those games might be in a state of limbo right now, a lot of the ideas behind the setting still float around in my head and I've been wanting to draw these guys for a bit.

Happy new year! Wish I had more to throw out for this year but alas. but that is something I want to change this year.

So you know, Vivi and Gon are interesting examples of the downside of media crossovers, where if an obscure character becomes meta in a competitive game in the worse way, they end up with a far larger hatebase than they do fanbase. These days, most folk that know of these two utterly hate them.

So Twitter released this new thing where you can just send AI to edit any public image, and I'm morbidly curious if any bad actors have utilized it yet. the implications are spooky but I kinda wonder if the social consequences at risk are keeping anyone from casually trying it yet...

A fairly masturbatory sketch of an inflated yoshi I did a month ago, not much context to it.

Some rough sketches that began with me exploring an idea for an ice behlbeste that was more of a design foil to their fire counterpart, wearing a jacket instead of shorts and having a flat and angular head design influenced by avalugg. Although they kinda just look like fat sergals in retrospect.

So it's the day before christmas, and as I look upon all the art I've been thinking to myself, I really need to get a reason to just draw again, like in a way that's decoupled from my projects like Balloonomancy, where there i'm stalled by this desire for strong presentation of it...

Who needs a Christmas tree when you have a dragon to decorate? I just about got this finished before the big day. Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day! <3

So I'm still doing commissions, but I've also begun doing food delivery on the side to generate money as well. just wanted to mention for those still waiting. I don't take payment until a commission piece is finished so I have to do a bit of a balancing act for now.

Clean Sketch commission for Shelby1995/KiryuBT1995 Godzilla's plan to get bigger than ever! though through unusual methodology.

So I see that my local grocer is now putting out Valentine's Day stuff already... It hasn't even been Christmas yet! We're not even halfway there even! Also I thought Christmas was the top dog of holidays, everyone's supposed to wait until it's done.

Commissioned piece for @oregene.bsky.social, of his character in some charizard pajamas.

So I saw this today at a collection store for real cheap, I've heard of these! It's a sort of miniature game with little ships made from card cutouts. So I decided to grab it just to see what it's all about...

Paying for food is going to be a major challenge, and that's forget about Christmas. if anyone is willing to donate, i have this open, it would greatly be appreciated... I need to do some things before i open commissions. any help is appreciated ko-fi.com/gregoriogrea...

So I'm going to be without work for the next couple of weeks, so I'm opening up commissions out of necessity in an effort to cover bills. Commissions rates can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Email me at [email protected] if you'd like to request one and work out the details.

So now I do need to seriously open up for commissions, but I just have no recent work worth showing off. what can I do at this point?

I wonder if there exists furry artwork of an anthro that is a handler of normal animals, but it's the prey animal of that given anthro. Like a fox that keeps chickens or a wolf that Shepherd's sheep. Or a shark/pelican that owns an aquarium or an anteater with Ant terrariums...

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao