My new zine is here! This zine is about knowing your rights. Get it here: www.dorkydino.com/free-downloads

As cute as this charm is, it never sold well. I will be discontinuing production of this charm, so if you wanted one, it's your last chance! www.dorkydino.com/product-page...

Hiya, I'm Brandi, the artist behind Dorky Dino. I create watercolor paintings, drawings, collage, murals, zines, and all kinds of other creative projects. Besides art I am also interested in thrifting, board games, mutual aid, and activism. If you like what I do, I hope you'll stick around!

A list of resources to learn more about mutual aid. 💚

How do you get involved in helping your community? Consider what skills or resources you have to offer, and what your community needs. Find the overlap, and that's your actionable mutual aid.

New art on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/151845...

There are so many ways you can contribute to and connect with your community! Here are a few ideas.

We show up for each other in the times and by the means that we can. We all have something to contribute.

People have different abilities, skills, and needs. When we recognize that, we can be radically inclusive.

We are all connected. Everyone deserves love, care, and access to life's necessities.

The difference between mutual aid and charity is solidarity. In charity, institutions dictate who deserves support; in mutual aid, everyone deserves support. Charity is top down; mutual aid is horizontal. Charity is hierarchical; mutual aid is community solidarity.

5-year-old is supposed to be brushing his teeth, but I hear him messing around in the sink. Me: "What are you doing, bud?" 5yo: "I'm TRYIN' to make a POTION."

Instead of institutions in power deciding who deserves support, we can take back the power and help each other directly. When we practice mutual aid, help goes both ways. We don't look at people like they are lesser. Solidarity, not charity.

New figure drawing art here: www.patreon.com/posts/150882...

In mutual aid, help goes both ways. Solidarity, not charity.

How do you become a builder of the world we need? Don't wait around for the systems that are already failing us. Instead, help your neighbors directly. Get to know the people in your community and what their needs are. We are all we have, but we are all we need.

Life hack: If you make all of your passwords into words of affirmation, you will be forced to type them multiple times a day.

All we have is each other. The system is the problem, not the people being targeted by it. It is a radical act to bypass the system to help your neighbor directly. Connect with your community now, because all we have is each other.

Artist problems require artist solutions. I noticed my black shirt had orange paint splatters on it, so I drew over it with a navy blue marker and perfectly color matched it. 👩‍🎨 💁‍♀️

I love foxes and I think horns are super cool looking, so I made a fantasy creature that combines both!

Continuous contour is a style of drawing where you use use a single line without picking up your utensil.

I picked up stuff from my collectibles case and now it looks like I run a shady plushie business out of my trunk. 🤣

When your kids have listened to "Golden" by HUNTR/X a thousand times, so you start inventing new lyrics: "I was a goat, I was a clone, (hah) pashmina, (hah) it's okay."

I went to a craft night with a friend and they had this cute strawberry stamp! Without having a plan, I stamped it in my sketchbook. Later I saw it and decided to add more to it. Stamp, watercolor, and white gel pen in my sketchbook.

Kindergarten made me think real life would involve a lot more pipe cleaners and brads.

This started out as a loose face study in my sketchbook. Later I decided to experiment with adding watercolor over it. Then I thrifted a frame that was a little dinged up, and decided to paint the frame to match. Now the frame is part of the art! #upcycledart

My partner watches cooking content the way many people watch football. "What are you DOING?!" "Oh c'mon, you GOTTA put more cheese on that!" "That's what I'm talking about!"

A fawn, watercolor and ink pen on watercolor paper.

If owning physical media is so elite, why are there unskipable trailers on my Blu-rays? 😾

I drew this tiny Minecraft zombie with colored pencils and cut out some of the pixels for a fun 3D effect.

On Parks and Recreation, season 4, episode 6, Andy says he wants to recreate the movie "Kazaam with Shaquille O'Neal" but the subtitles say "Shazam"!!! Mandela effect strikes again?! Or auto generated captions heard the closest thing? Lol

Room to take her big snack breaks.

In solidarity with the nationwide shutdown, Dorky Dino is closed today, January 30, 2026. #NationwideShutdown

All riot dogs go to heaven.

Are you overwhelmed? Irate? Scared? Go from passive observer to builder of the world we need. This is a zine about mutual aid. Swipe through to read.

I got this jacked up sketchbook with a torn spine from ScrapsKC. Collaged over it with junk that was destined for a landfill, and covered the spine with duct tape I also got at ScrapsKC. Now it's cute and usable and won't fall apart!

I know it is hard to look at. I sobbed when I read the news. Imagining my youngest being told by armed people to knock on the door, imagining my oldest coming home to find his parent and brother missing. There are people who don't have the option to look away. This is their reality.

The administration always complaining about "fake news" is altering photos to change your perception of what is happening, and yes this should be setting off red flags for you. 🚩🚩🚩

Is this the blood thirsty criminal you were warned about? Is this what the administration promised you? Would they detain someone here legally? Would they use a pre-schooler to get an adult to open a door? Would your government lie to you? If they did, would you stand up to them?

Tell me why I went to upload a series of selfies to TikTok and the song it automatically chose was "Hot Goblin". Is it trying to tell me something?! Okay, you know what, fair, I'll take it. 🤣

I had fun illustrating on these hair brushes! Should I make more?! #handpainted #customgifts #imadethis

My second free zine is out now! It's about knowing your rights during police encounters, which is only becoming more important every moment. You can get digital copies at dorkydino.com/free-downloads or you can pay what you want for a physical printed copy here: ko-fi.com/s/060cedbe51. #zine

Art vs artist. This really emphasizes how much my art varies, in both medium & subject matter. From collage to watercolor to markers to murals. From activism to self portraits to queer joy to nature. If I did the same thing all the time I'd get so bored!

"Dictators and people in office and people who want to control and deceive know exactly the people who will disturb their plans. And those people are artists." -Toni Morrison Make. Art. #artactivism #artivism

Thank you for following my adventures through 2025! Let's make 2026 a year of art, activism, thrifting, color, diversity, and love! Who is with me?!

Do you want me to flash you some of my art Porn . ? #artthot #artist #art #artcompilation #paintings #markerartist #artiststruggles Support me everywhere by following #artvictim. ArtVictim on all platforms

I have this packed ATM but hope to get back to line work and all the things. Anyone have any fun captions for it when I Do ? #artmeme #meme #artist #sketch #relationship

When your mom gets an Aura frame 🤣

My mom got me this awesome @artvictim.bsky.social dress for Christmas! I love it so much! #rainbows #artfashion #artistshelpingartists

🧵 of resources for getting involved with, and supporting, mutual aid projects. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action. mutualaiddisasterrelief.org