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alex | he/soul/they | 25+ (see pinned) | NO AI/NFTs. art blog. i love my characters more than myself. blog header by greypij.

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Alex, he/soul/they, 25+. I love my characters more than myself. Art blog. Additional info under the cut.

Cara / Sheezy / ArtFight / Toyhouse / Lorepository / Ko-Fi

Longtime hobbyist. Actually a tiger, avid gamer, fiction adorer, & dragon fanatic. Hates lineart but still does it, no consistent subject matter outside of my own characters, guy of a thousand sketches.

I love my characters. A lot. (though I do have a very obvious favourite!) Please ask before drawing my characters, unless it's during ArtFight.

I use a Wacom Intuos Pro (M), Clip Studio Paint (old version), sometimes Paint Tool SAI 2, and various traditional tools.

Not open to work/trades/collabs/requests, sorry! NO AI/NFTs. Do not repost my work to other sites.

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burn the page / turn the page.

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Pyrrhic victory: A victory gained at such a cost to the victor, that it is tantamount to defeat.

Just messing around with colours. I fiddled with this for a while before deciding to just leave the initial vibes, without all the layer modes.

It looks exceptionally eerie like this to me, and that fits.

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Finally got off cooldown and changed my Toyhouse username from aldred > aldredite, phew.

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I admit this is still a work in progress, but I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT IT, I just have to share what I've got so far, okay?!

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Two years old at this point, but whatever, I wanted to post this, because it doesn't matter how old the art is.

Happy Pride Month everyone! :D

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Money can't buy happiness but it can buy artwork of your characters, and that's basically the same thing. :)

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"If I won the lottery, there would be signs", and they would all be "me hiring every single human artist I can find on the Internet, and having them all draw the same character, around the same time".

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Money can't buy happiness but it can buy artwork of your characters, and that's basically the same thing. :)

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IT ONLY TOOK YEARS, but here is a 'normal' anthro 'sona that ACTUALLY looks like me body-type wise. :') Still a WIP, but oh well.

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Forgot to post this. OC based on my childhood plushie.

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So I'm doing this absolutely incredible, VERY in-depth, in-character interview style exercise with my main character Cayden, and. (link to the Toyhouse forum post by the creator here)

Some of these answers are actually breaking my heart. OW.

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you'll be how the light got in.

I spent way too long trying to fix this and it's not perfect, but I just really wanted to bring this back because I love the concept, and all I needed to do was redraw his face/hair anyway.

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Awkward questions, that probably almost every trans person can relate to, that lead into conversations that are over before they start.

Any time somebody would approach him with a certain look, he knew what was next, and what you don't see is him bolting off.

And judging by his face, most people got their answer anyway.

Quick, silly redraw with his up-to-date design, that had me giggling the entire time.

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Tumblr is getting a cropped version again. :P

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No idea what this is.

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I like to call this 'warm up doodles, featuring the "Weirdly Shaped Head Gang".

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... I've been looking at this design for too long, but I like it. Prickly flower mantis, to be exact.