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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Pumpkin, a digital artist currently focusing on #manga and #visualnovels. I am currently available for long term projects! 🎮 pumpkin-spike.itch.io/jincan-under... 🗯 namicomi.com/en/org/pumpk... 💼 vgen.co/PumpkinSpike 📧 [email protected] #animeartist #gamdev #vnlink

I'm Solara/Sol! I'm a Canadian illustrator and character designer who makes visual novels! #PortfolioDay solgallery.carrd.co

I'm Saitoki, Indie Visual dev and freelance artist. I like making BL! saitoki.itch.io #portfolioday

Purple experiment with acrylic markers and gel pens. The girl on the left is Plum, one of @vndev.bsky.social's mascots.

Too carelessly done, but experimenting with color combination was a good learning experience.

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Finished painting the cover of my sketchbook! It was fun.

Painted Micah on the backcover of my mini sketchbook. Gonna do Sylas on the front!

More acrylic marker sketch...

Sketched elias on the next page. I wonder if i should paint him...

Uneasy night. Acrylic marker hard...

Morandi gel pens mini painting...

I was looking for a scanner to scan traditional art and found a used multipurpose scanner-color printer for 1.6x price of the cheapest scanner, so why not... Printing old art is so much fun...

Oliver's Christmas part-time job and friends, redone with marker.

New day new sketch. I draw so much boys so i haven’t picked up the skill to draw longer hair well...

First girl in this sketchbook ever...

Tonight sketch. Which will totally goes into a HSOAV CG later.

I've been doing one quick colored sketch every night lately. It is effortless and fun, which improves my mood a lot. Recently, i realized that it's much more economical to buy specific marker colors than buying a set of varied colors i never use, worst are oversaturated ones. Light colors are best!

One big advantage traditional art has over digital is that it's really therapeutic. My mind has been in a bad space lately, and just some quick doodles on paper really helped me.

Another bad attempt at traditional art... this time it's Ink.

hop on visual novels NOW !! I've gathered 200+ romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers across the globe and categorized them by romance type, genre, mechanics, amount of love interests, and more. NO EXCUSES TO NOT PLAY ROMANCE VNS ANYMORE!!! store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...

@saitoki.itch.io and I worked on a small demo for #yaoi jam this year! The Useless Incubus and The Ruthless Hero is a kinetic BL #visualnovel about finding and falling in love against the odds society has stacked against you. 😈🗡️ saitoki.itch.io/incubus-and-... #blvn #boyslove

Animated a CG for #yaoijam2025...

Some #yaoijam2025 spoilers...

Our #yaoijam2025 project will have animation after all...

Suddenly, I had an idea for O2A2, so I made an impulse project over the weekend. Took an all-nighter, but I'm pretty happy how it turned out. saitoki.itch.io/confessions-...

#yaoijam2025 progress: - Sprites done - BG 4/5 - CG 1/5 Here is some sneak peek!

Surely I'm not adding animation to my game...

Announcing the Fall Into Love: Romance VNs Festival, a Steam festival just for visual novels focusing on romance held at the end of September! 💖 We're currently looking for more Steam games to join us, as long as they're visual novels. Please sign up before July 15th. forms.gle/oBCkYx3SNqVL...

Mixed media fun piece. Originally he was naked but i didn't like his nipples so now he is censored with eccentric clothes.

Slowly sketching for the unamed #yaoijam2025 project...

My new BL visual novel, Beneath the Bleeding Moon, has been released! It's an adventure story about a cross-dressing young man and a devious thief who go on a journey to lift an ancient curse! 🌖 store.steampowered.com/app/2553080 🌖 ebihime.itch.io/bleeding-moon #yaoi #boyslove #blvn

So... I'm joining #yaoijam2025. Here is the (very rough] draft for the MCs sprite. Decided to partner up with @pumpkin-spike.itch.io for this project, the characters were designed by her!

After alcohol based marker, here are some (a bit fail) attempts at Acrylic marker and watercolor painting. Traditional art is so unforgiving with mistakes. I should get back to digital art for the beloved undo button...

Saw some cool youtuber drawing video that made me have the urge to dust off my marker set and attempt traditional art again. First fanart in years, recently I just learned that DNAngel ended...

Hey, just an announcement regarding Hardship Of a Vampire.Recently I had gotten into animating and decided to make the game fully animated. Release date will be greatly delayed so just a head-up...

Drew one of Vamp game npc on paper, gonna trace her digitally for sprite later...

Impulsely bought a cheap market set yesterday so i did an Oliver for testing... Traditional art hard...

My newest game, The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not, is now out on Itchio and Steam! Explore the city of Twinbells and experience this girl's love visual novel about phantom thieves! #visualnovel #indiegame #girlslove https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333600/The_Mysterious_Thief_Forget_Me_Not/

Hardships Of A Vampire Extended Demo is released: - 11k words - 9 CGs - new revamped UI -new characters and locations -a lot of transitions and character blinking saitoki.itch.io/hardship/dev...

Thanks @twoandahalfstudios.com for hosting the story teller festival. Even though I didn't manage to get the demo up in time for the event, I'm still happy to be able to participate with Hardships Of A Vampire. Check out all the cool games here! store.steampowered.com/developer/Tw...

Some updates about Hardships Of A Vampire development: Extended demo coming soon. saitoki.itch.io/hardship/dev...

I have been getting a bit too into renpy animation for a programming dummy...

Finally learned to use snowblossom in renpy yay

Bought a cheap watercolor set that will totally collect dust again... I haven’t drawn on paper in ages.

Sketched 5 more CGs, this time they are plot relevant. 23/35 sketched.

Random art practice different rendering style

Attempt to design a standee for fun...

Last minutes Holiday drawing, Oliver meets some friends during Christmas Eve part time job. Didn't manage to finish, maybe this time next year it will get rendered haha.