L’Appel du Vide (Call to the Void), 2025 has been juried into @infected_by_art volume 14! I am honored to be included among so many artists I admire 😭 Thank you IBA jury! ✨

Hoping to see y’all at some events this year! Here’s my events list so far 😷🪲✨ . Apr 24-26 - Lvl Up Expo, Las Vegas, NV May 22-24 - Animazement, Raleigh, NC Jul 23-26 - Tekko, Pittsburgh, PA Oct 23-24 - IlluXcon Showcase, Reading, PA

One More Time With Feeling, 2025 Ink on toned paper, 9 x 12 inches . The last piece of 2025 for me- in typical briny shiny fashion . Wishing you all the best - thank you .

I’m part of an elder emo stamp rally this weekend at Anime Weekend Atlanta! 👀 IT WAS NEVER A PHASE Make a purchase with each of the 6 participating artists to earn a stamp - after collecting all 6, bring your completed stamp card to table 1353 for a prize pack! Hope to see you there!

We’ll Carry On! I’m part of an elder emo stamp rally for Anime Weekend Atlanta! Here is my art for the prize bag ✨ I’ll post about how to participate soon! This drawing was based off the original Black Parade album art with inspiration from James Jean’s Black Parade poster 🖤 A very rare fanart

Wearing My Heart - 5” embroidered patch I’ve always felt like I wear my heart on my sleeve. I couldn’t find a good patch to match that feeling so I made it! Now I’m going to put this on ALL MY SHIRTS Tenderness is too rare lately - like a four leaf clover. I want to pick it - I went to let it be.

Hello hello everyone! I’m at FanExpo San Francisco at artist table AP21 this weekend! Stop by and say hi if you’re in the area!!

I’m all set up at the California Academy of Sciences for Welcome Winter Night! Stop by and say hi if you’re in the area! Shop with many local artists and craftspeople!! 6pm-9:30pm.

I’m all set up at Pancakes and Booze at Public Works SF!!! I’ll also be working on a drawing here from 7pm-12am!

I’m excited to be a part of an incoming group show hosted by Rambler Magazines and Lumen Lans “Calm Amidst Chaos” opening this Friday Nov 21 at Lumen Labs in Berkeley, CA! There will be local artists, vendors, and music at the opening so stop by if you’re in the area! $5 entry fee.

I Don’t Wanna Make It (I Just Wanna) 2025 Ink on paperboard 7x5 My preferred form of communication has and will always be referencing angsty songs Been trying to capture a certain feeling - this is getting closer! This will be part of my Patreon print club rewards!

HAPPY HOWL LU WEEN

Hello hello! I am at IlluxCon Evening Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania - it’ll be 10/24 - 10/25 from 8pm - 12am I have prints, patches, and original pieces with me! There’s no entry fee for the showcase so stop by if you’re in the area!

5hrs! This is such a complex sculpture with many complex poses… I think it would realistically take 2 days at the Met museum to even get a good likeness of.

ANOTHER BLACKWING MET MUSEUM PIECE (3hrs)

BLACKWING MET MUSEUM DAY

I’m excited to be part of the Imaginative Realism Evening Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania Oct 22-26! Evening showcase is 8pm - 12am on Friday 10/24 and Saturday 10/25. I’ll be attending the workshops and programming across the main show as well so I hope to see you and draw with you there ✨

Also today cleaning Asawa fountainnnn

My heart continues to ache and rage 💔 FREE PALESTINE ALL EMPIRES MUST FALL

Hoping to see y’all at some events this year! Here’s my events list so far 😷🪲✨ . Let me know if you want to see specific work as art prints or other products ❤️ And let me know if there are events you’d like to see me at! . #smallbusiness #animeconvention #artistalley #artfair

I chose a smaller paper to give me less space to obsess over details… And yet…

Ask Governor Gavin Newsom to sign pivotal reparations legislation in law! It takes literally 3 mins to add your name! secure.ngpvan.com/EXSKhBjb9kWp...

Just a BUCK! 💸

I have stickers for giveaway at cons/events or if you ever see me during my rare (so rare) ventures outside! Art, spectacle, and culture are such powerful tools, weapons even - I am terrified of my art and self being used to serve colonialism and oppression no matter in how small a way

Event Horizon (cradle), 2025 7 x 5 inches Ink on paper The futility of holding void I have been so smitten by the art for the MTG Edge of Eternities - as a child I was obsessed with space and art. I suppose some things will never change ✨

We all raised $500 this weekend for Ayman and the families he supports in Gaza! Thank u Sacramento! 😭✨❤️ I am so tired but my heart is full www.gofundme.com/f/support-ay...

I’m all set up at Sacanime Summer Sacramento California! Dealer’s booth G36-37

L’appel du Vide Ink on paper 11 x 8.5 inches Do not mourn for me I am already there Too often

Hello hello! I’m all set up at artist alley table B303 at Otakon in Washington, D.C. this weekend!!! Hope to see you there! Image: photograph of artist table at Anime convention with monochrome art prints, enamel pins, and zines with a banner reading VIVIAN T. SKETCHBEETLEART

Thank you @beautifulbizarremagazine for including “Heart Full of Weeds (Weeps)” as a featured artwork from the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize emerging artist entries! I’m grateful and honored to be among great company ❤️ Original drawing: ink on paper 14 x 11 inches

Hoping to see y’all at some events this year! Here’s my events list so far 😷🪲✨ . Let me know if you want to see specific work as art prints or other products ❤️ And let me know if there are events you’d like to see me at! . #smallbusiness #animeconvention #artistalley #artfair

Where can I play Space Invaders on a vintage arcade cabinet in San Francisco? I know there’s one at Musee Mechanique… I HEAR IT USES PEPPERS GHOST EFFECT AND I WANT TO SEE IT WITH ME TWO EYES

Hello all! I’m going to be at Pancake and Booze at San Francisco tonight at Public Works❤️ I’ll be working on a bigger drawing this evening- stop by for art and pancakes 👀🥞

Hello hello all! I’m at @teamtekko Artists Alley in Pittsburgh this weekend! Hope to see you!! I’m directly across from the exhibit hall entrance ✨

I’m thrilled and humbled to see my work up at Hosfelt Gallery in their current exhibition: Drawn to Drawing (June 12-August 16, 2025) How surreal it is to be placed alongside Joan Brown, Nam June Paik, Anthony Baus, and so so many others!

@hootlesart.bsky.social AND I MADE STICKERS FOR GIVEAWAY AT AX AND BEYOND FCK ICE STICKERS AT K57 LAND BACK AND NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL STICKERS AT U30

“Your art isn’t horror… it’s emo” I feel seen 😭😭😭😂

An autonomous zone in Slovenia is having an absurdist film program this summer and asked to use my beetle as their cover ❤️❤️❤️ 🥹🥹🥹 my lil guy living its best life abroad!!!

Good morning all! I’m set up at Anime Expo @animeexpo Artist Alley table U30! I’ll be here all 4 days ❤️🖊️🪲 Stop by and say hi if you’re here!

Under EO9066 during WWII, Japanese & Japanese American people were also forced into hastily made incarceration camps- Santa Anita Racetracks horse stables were white washed but it still smelt of manure. they don’t care that these aren’t fit for humans- they don’t see Brown & Black peoples as human

So #DrawEverythingJune is an art challenge that goes throughout the month, and like any extended art challenge, people burn out or give up, and only a few people are left by the end to claim the prize What's interesting is watching this happen in real time

Me vs my art style 😭

Bug drop shop update coming on Friday! It will include pins, stickers, lanyards and the bee plush. 🐛🪲🐝 My beautiful friend Angel (angelcarboni.carrd.co) helped me out with some product photos so I have been slowly working on the shop update.

@adorkastock.com #draweverythingjune2025 Day 7!

Treasures

@adorkastock.com #draweverythingjune2025 day 6! I’ve fallen very behind but still on it!

Anhedonia (Rustling) Everything feels so meaningful and everything feels so meaningless. The sound of grass in the wind has been the same for eternities. Hand embellished prints of this piece are part of this round’s Patreon print rewards - see Sketchbeetleart on Patreon for more info!

Leapt (Over), 2025 Ink on paper 11.5 x 10 inches ✨✨✨ The tall tall cyprus trees I saw in Tuscany continue to grow through my brain.

Leapt (Over), 2025 Ink on paper 11.5 x 10 inches ✨✨✨ The tall tall cyprus trees I saw in Tuscany continue to grow through my brain.