Reminder (for myself as much as anyone): having to work a day job has no bearing on whether or not you’re a “real artist”.

New awareness campaign

extra icon of an adopt i made, now homed by @reactorpool.bsky.social ❤️💛💙 → #digitalart ∘ #monsters ∘ #weirdcore

-sighs wistfully- I went and saw the CSM movie and it just. I can't stop thinking about it, man. One of the few so-beautiful-and-tragic-that-I-couldn't-help-but-cry movies I've had the pleasure of seeing. I almost want to see it again tbh.

freestyle experimental commissions for @reactorpool.bsky.social 💙 → #illustration ∘ #digitalart ∘ #monsters ∘ #furry

Figured out how to animate, but don't wish to post either of the two roughs I've done so far cus... they are not SFW 👽 But I do have SFW animations planned, hoping to do at least one by the end of the year

I have a few but these are my main ones (my persona and fursona, respectively)

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Finished scrap design for commission

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A collab with @krookedreality.bsky.social, a bnuy custom made for @reactorpool.bsky.social! WOO 🧡✨🐰🌊 → #eyestrain ∘ #characterdesign ∘ #digitalart ∘ #monsters ∘ #alienoc ∘ #weirdcore

icon commission for @reactorpool.bsky.social of his lovely angelic fella 💙🦢 → #digitalart ∘ #illustration ∘ #monsters

can't say anything that hasn't already been said a million times better. it just boggles my mind, we only get one chance at life. ONE CHANCE. why waste it being a hateful bigot? why spend your precious time on this earth inflicting pain and misery on others? to live is such a gift. be worthy of it.

art is false starts, art is abandonware, art is rough drafts, art is process JUST as much as it is a framed painting or a finished film. this has been noted ad nauseum at this point but art is effort and expression and passion and love, not a constructed item for purchase

my fellow artists, if you ever feel like a failure, just remember the clowns who tried to sneak in gen AI images at Dragoncon

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.

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hyperfixating on ocs can feel weird as hell theres no tv show no videogame no webcomic no fandom no nothing its just me losing my marbles in the kitchen making all the damn food for myself IM GOING CRAZY

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Design trade with @mercuriym.bsky.social !

I think one of the principal barriers to novice artists who feel tempted by the idea of image gen software is failing to realize that you will never see your own work the way you do the work of others. You will never experience something of your own design the way you would a "new release"

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✨ hello did u know that other artists are not your competition and when we lift each other up and support one another and share one another’s voices we are creating a sustainable community rather than attempting to exist in a void ✨

character redesign for @mercuriym.bsky.social

artfight attacks from this year

commission for @reactorpool.bsky.social of his cool horse critter 🐎💫 → #digitalart ∘ #chibiart ∘ #monsters ∘ #alien

Painting from a dream that I decided to make in real life 9" x 12", Acrylic on canvas #art #painting

Another new guy, named them Collide

0CE4N-M4N > REACTORPOOL My username has caused some confusion and people have had trouble remembering what it is so it has been changed to something easier on the eyes as well as more suitable for me.

Painting I did for the wonderful @rebbford.bsky.social ! I was fortunate enough to hand it off to her in person at #tennocon this weekend ;v; Not sure if she will see this but ->

Commission - Thunder Cat.

The vessel and its possessor

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Ref for my newer character Oni #art #anthro #weird

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Commission for a friend. Wonder what Snake is saying...

a mischievous glitchy catto offered up on my server, and officially got homed by @0ce4n-m4n.bsky.social 🐱💙⚠️ had a ton of fun adding the lil bits n bobs to this design! → #digitalart ∘ #characterdesign ∘ #monsters ∘ #furry

My (belated) half of a design trade with @valdevia.art Made him a new angel, their name is Arete!

experimental for @0ce4n-m4n.bsky.social 🫧🌊💙 → #illustration ∘ #digitalart ∘ #monsters ∘ #furry

Redesign of my OC Lux

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Messing with old style again. Ish.

Design that got adopted out

▲▲▲ - art trade with @0ce4n-m4n.bsky.social of his neat critter! :]

Art trade with @mercuriym.bsky.social !