times are so lean (everyone knows this no one needs to hear it from me) and yet. maybe it's just cause i've worked in the industry been there done that, but i just cannot imagine making work that isn't highly true and specific to me when it's for ME and on MY free time and for not a dime lmao.

i'm happy bsky is surviving in its own niche way and wasn't just a momentary flash in the pan. i get a lot of thoughtful comments on here and feel that i have followers who are actually very interested in my art and like to see it specifically. i prefer that to a larger number of disinterested ones.

girl who can't decide what she wants to listen to so she's going to listen to someone on youtube read aloud ray bradbury short story audiobooks AGAIN

this was in my 2023 sketch file and idk what it means

after this week. juice buffet

relying on social media is so ass sometimes. i need to get going on a gallery page on my own website. no one will ever look at it but at least it will be there permanently

it's not actually a big deal at all but i think about this ethel cain rant a lot

i need to implement this for october cause im already like 💭 greasy mechanic mars who comes to fix your skylight... yes.... yessss........

feel self-conscious posting too much about it on main cause i worry it comes off as insincere native advertising but i genuinely didn't think i would enjoy patreon so much, i held off on having one for years cause it felt like another job i'd have to do but i love having a semi-private space for art

first 100 shipments were hand packed and labeled by myself and firtive overnight! first free moment we got since getting them in, we were serious about ASAP lol. first 100 orders were domestic so USA plush buyers, you will get an email later this morning if you were among them

next time i make stickers i'd really like to stickerify a set of my traditional media pieces

hmmmm get animaticpilled again. could this be the elusive thing i could start using my empty patreon for

the leg situation is

the banal oppression of a world that seems wholly uninterested in creating the conditions for art to be made or for people to live the kinds of lives that inform art... man. it hardly feels worth sticking around for

mar

tiny thumbail for 487 in my sketchbook lol

pony baseball

close now

i would LOVE a user-submitted alt text feature, similar to community notes on twitter, but where users submit alt text on a post for the OP to personally approve. the submitting user would get credited for the text and OP wouldn't have to reveal their own POV (important to me). win-win to me!!

from when i was trying to decide how to draw rained-on stuff

s.w.a.k.

it's time to get traditional media pilled again. it's time to touch paper

making horses move around

you are like a little insect

bruce :(

urfbounds

anyway i don't mean to downplay the meaningfulness of 500 nor the comic i chose for it. it's pretty explicitly meaningful and in a way more obvious than usual, people in the comments are already picking up on it, im sure you can get the implications etc. im happy to be here i did it yay

i do try to make the milestone numbers meaningful in some way but i would like to dispel the idea that every milestone comic is some huge implication of SOMEONE DIES or THIS IS IT!!!! because structuring a story around the big stuff hitting on round numbers would not really suit my writing style

this comm has been in pencils long enough now it can be in inks for awhile

something for my mom

random urge

from the ol file margins

chloe's leg situation if you couldn't figure it out

delusions of grandeur

pure of heart confident of line that's me

mars thumbs from 302