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Half artist-half autist 🧚‍♀️ Just sharing my works and yapping about things. IG: @a_tinycherry Commissions info: https://atinycherry.carrd.co/

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So I've been working on this for the last 18? Maybe 19 days? Definitely closer to three weeks than two, lol 💀 I was inspired by a photo of flowers with beautiful colors, and I decided I couldn't ignore it (now I'm starting to think it might have been AI, yuck). It didn't take me long to decide who the main character of this piece would be <3 It's Ciro/Hongjoong from our (mine and my friend's) royal AU! 👑 I need to finally make a comprehensive post about every AU we have lol I've fallen off track with posting again, but I hope that despite everything I will make up for it soon! Unfortunately, my health seems to be only getting worse, and on top of that, I'm having mental health issues, which... definitely aren't making the whole process any easier, lol. I had big plans for this drawing—I was going to make a whole video about it, showing people my creative process, but it turned out that over two hours of footage was recorded not from Paint Tool Sai's window but from my browser. So, you'd be watching my mouse cursor move around the YouTube homepage for two hours. This demotivated me so much that I stopped recording the rest and I'm going to make another attempt at recording while working on the next drawing that I'm already planning in my head! Fuck my life, I guess.🤷‍♀️

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What can I say, I just love feral doggo bois 😭

It's funny because it's a fanart for a scene in one of my RPs that hasn't even happened yet XD This was my last work from 2024, finished in November. I remember trying some trick back then to help with the final colors, and I admit, I'm really pleased with the result. I used to be much more adventurous when it came to adding colors to a drawing, but then something happened and I started sticking to very limited palettes.. 💀 Ilios/San, this time as Doberman/wolf mix hybrid 👀

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And once again, it turns out I can't be active on social media, even with ready-made content to share XD God, I hate it.

I drew this over a year ago as part of a little art challenge my friend and I had, revolving around summer vacations, the beach and the ocean. It forced me to step outside my comfort zone a bit, as I rarely do illustrations, let alone underwater ones 😩

Ilios/San & Ciro/Hongjoong, August 2024

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THERE WAS THIS ONE POST ABOUT TAEYONG LOOKING LIKE MARILYN MONROE, OKAY 😩 I remember it was my first time drawing such a shiny dress, and I'll admit, almost a year later, I'm still really happy with it. I'd love to make a postcard out of this art someday hhh...

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Since 2022, I've been a huge fan of San and Hongjoong from "Ateez lore".

You know, the captain and his most devoted soldier, who is willing to sacrifice himself and, if necessary, pretends to be the leader to protect the real one?

Also in 2022, I started writing a lot of RPs with one of my best friends, and at some point I started wondering... where do "existing characters" end and where do OCs begin?

Although each of our RPs features a "San" and a "Hongjoong," their personalities often have little connection to "reality." In each story, they are given unique visual features like tattoos, scars, birthmarks, or hairstyles, not to mention their backstories that influenced who they are today.

None of these "characters" are the same, and the only things they have in common are their "faces."

For this reason, I've always struggled with how to tag the drawings I create for our RPs—are they fanarts of our OCs? Or maybe they're fanarts from "the Ateez AU"?

I even gave them names I've tried to use before, because I know that any kind of "shipping" in K-pop can evoke extreme emotions—Hongjoong is Ciro and San is Ilios; both names refer to the motif of the sun and stars, which turned out to be quite important to this whole... multiverse.

Tbh I don't consider it the same as shipping "real idols"? For me, it's more like... shipping two characters played by actors? It's a bit like seeing a photo of Robert Downey Jr. with Scarlett Johansson and perceiving it as a photo of Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff 🤔

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At the beginning of 2024, I had ambitious plans to start creating a webtoon 📝 I wrote a very detailed script, divided it into chapters, designed the two main characters, created pseudo-promotional "posters," and... that was it ⚰️

It turned out that my idea was a bit too much for me – the plot focused largely on "werewolves" who could transform into wolves fighting each other in the arena on behalf of wealthy families. And, well... drawing wolves is unfortunately beyond my capabilities XD I might revive this project someday because I really, really care about it – I'm a huge fan of the Omega Verse/Abo Verse, so it was obvious to me that my first webtoon would be based on that theme.

Anygay, I present to you both posters and character sheets with their designs. The red-haired one is the omega, the white-haired one- the alpha 😇

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Okay, so this drawing is a bit special to me 🥺 I still haven't posted it on Instagram, apart from a small group on FB, so you could say it's his big social media debut lol

As a child and teenager, I was obsessed with creating all sorts of OCs, for which I built complex lore and created specific worlds. I used them for many years to write roleplays with my then-best friend, but then I gave up on that in favor of writing 'ready-made' characters. Because of this, many of my OCs "ended up collecting dust in a corner" for years.

At the beginning of this year, I came across a screenshot of a post on Pinterest, very likely a Tumblr post. It was about a triangle between a sheep, a sheepdog, and a wolf. And you know what? ✨That's when everything clicked ✨

I felt a surge of inspiration I hadn't felt in a long time. I decided to breathe some fresh air into one of my favorite OCs, whom I created over 10 years ago – Lynn. Lynn was created around mid-2014 – initially as a guy with long brown hair and glasses, and eventually took on the form of a charming albino femboy (I feel like that's very fitting for the times, lol). Taking inspiration from the post I mentioned, I decided that all three of them would have some animalistic features – primarily ears/horns. I didn't want to make them true furries, but I also didn't want to make them 100% human. I thought that would be a bit too boring.

I haven't thought too deeply about the lore and world of these three yet, but for now, it looks like this – hybrids and humans live side by side. Hybrids are treated as inferior. Lynn (the sheep) was raised with a Sheepdog in a very religious family that intended to sacrifice Lynn (you know, sacrificial lamb and all that). Sheepdog decided to save him, and they ran away together. When they grew up, they both lived in a small, remote cabin—it was there, in their barn, that an injured Wolf appeared, and Lynn decided to take care of him. The worst part is that I only drew him and never got around to drawing the other three 💀 I hope I'll fix that by the end of this year...

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Definitely one of the most time-consuming pieces I've ever drawn - from sketch to final post it took me three weeks of June to finish 😭 Part of this was due to the fact that I had never drawn armor or colored metal before - I had to learn everything as I went, at some point starting all over again.

The second reason is certainly the fact that my health has deteriorated significantly and I simply don't have enough strength and energy to sit for a long time with my laptop and the tablet pen in my hand 🪦

You could say that this drawing of 'Knight San' is partly fanart for an RP I'm writing with one of my best friends, although the AU we created is based more on the modern vision of 'kingdom' (so he's more of a personal bodyguard than a knight)

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One of my 'newest' pieces, done at the beginning of July 📅

I think it's quite natural that being a Jiyong fan automatically made me a Hongjoong fan – I think people who know both idols will agree with me that they have an incredibly similar vibe, almost like long-lost siblings 😩

I've been a fan of Ateez almost since their debut. I got hooked on their music at the turn of 2018/2019, also attending their first (and unfortunately last) concert in Poland with my mom (who is also a huge K-pop fan).

Getting back to the main point, when I saw Hongjoong's Elle photoshoot where they gave him a red mullet... I was simply blown away. I MISSED HIS SMN/HALA HALA ERA mullet so much!! I've been waiting for this particular hairstyle to return on him for YEARS 😭😭😭 God, he looks so good in it... and so does Jiyong!

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So I made this art around the end of February this year- probably on the day of the release of the Übermensch album. If you've seen any previews of the things inside 'photobooks', you'll probably recognize the photo that inspired this drawing - a profile shot with a blue mullet and some kind of jewelry.

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT PHOTO DID TO ME. Gosh, mother looked like a dream, I missed that androgynous look so much... 😭😭

I had to refer to this somehow in my drawing, so I made a small portrait inspired, once again, by Mucha's work - if you saw my previous post, you could read there that I love drawing inspiration from both his works and Art Nouveau itself.

I wouldn't say it's my 'typical' drawing style - I rarely use such realistic proportions, but I decided that I cared too much about him simply resembling himself 😩

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It's August 5th, but I guess it's never too late to post a drawing of some merman 🤷‍♀️ Literally every year I promise myself I'll participate in Mermay and draw for the entire month, and every year I fail – I posted this piece on May 31st, barely keeping within the time limits 😩 I really like Art Nouveau and often draw inspiration from the works of artists like Alphonse Mucha – you can probably tell.

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Hi! So... I'm making another attempt at posting on Tumblr – I'm really terrible at social media and lose all the enthusiasm and energy for it after a few days. Nevertheless, I'll try to slowly upload my drawings that are already on IG, and then, hopefully, I'll post new stuff <3 Two days ago I participated in the "apple challenge" or "apple trend", and couldn't resist drawing my divorced parents 💔 I miss them so much, you don't even know... 😩