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27 ✮ Professional Character Designer & Graphic Artist ✮ 🔞

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Hello, my name is ArtMun!

About me:

27 ☆They/Them ☆ Professional Animator/Character Designer/Graphic Designer

Fandoms I’m in Currently:

• Shane Acker’s 9

• TRON: Uprising

• Sonic (admittedly I’ve become quite partial to the film interpretations…..)

• The Amazing Digital Circus

Quick Q/A:

Why is your inbox only ever opened temporarily?

For the sake of boundaries. I’ve had a few instances of followers becoming quite parasocial and spamming my inbox.

What’s your professional work?

Take a peek here!

What’s the Blog’s Rating?

I have it in my descriptor, but this is an 18+ blog. I discuss things like sexuality and many adult themes in both my fandom and artistic endeavors. While I believe it’s healthy to learn these things as you grow up, it’s best to do that on your own, rather than entering adult spaces. It’s safer for all parties involved.

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Sketches so far trying to figure Pomni out

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🔴 Caine 🔵 Abel

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Detail closeups!

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🔴 Caine 🔵 Abel

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Something, something, witty line about being sucked into another fandom here—

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*posts singular Pomni art*

*completely forgets the Jax sheet

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She’s just a little rag-dolly~

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*posts singular Pomni art*

*completely forgets the Jax sheet

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Something, something, witty line about being sucked into another fandom here—

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I’m almost 30, which is basically a dinosaur in Internet Years™️, and sometimes thinking about how things used to be in the early 2000s to 2010s gives me a psychological flashbang.

If you told me that tumblr was going to be the healthiest/best social media platform to be on a whole ass decade later I would just outright not believe you.

Thinking about tumblr now versus back then has me in a state of just

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9 and 5 designs for a Winter trek they make together

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What it looks like to me is that these churns of outrage aren't actually about anything that these creators say or do, so much as they are a kind of reflexive action in response to literally any kind of friction. Like an angry infected rash flaring up with pain when it is brushed by a feather.

The show you like is telling a slightly different story than what you want? Friction is the same as pain so it is hurting me, AAAA!!! Your expectation of what was going to happen to that character you liked didn't pan out? Friction! Friction hurts! You're hurting me!!

But where the Disney Corporation can run a fucking angle grinder across the rash and barely provoke an "ow," indie creators (especially if they are not men), can get nearly run off the internet for things like factually answering a direct question or stating that the story they are writing has main characters.

There's a lot of misogyny in that, obviously, and in many awful flavors, but I think there's also mixed in there a very peculiar kind of consumer-brained entitlement. We expect that the big corporations will fuck us over every two seconds, and we expect to be utterly powerless to do anything about it because all they give a shit about is Line Go Up, but indie creators (especially if they are not men) are expected to be the balm to that infected rash. Where everything else in the world is painful and mean and uncomfortable, independent queer creators are expected to produce the comfortable swaddling bandage that dulls the pain and soothes the sensitivity. This is supposed to be our happy place, our safe place. It's supposed to be ours and belong to us and serve us.

And so they moment they produce friction, any friction, literally the tiniest amount of friction imaginable, well that's a failure! You are failing to live up to your purpose, and that's not just a creative failure but a moral and personal and spiritual failure too. It's a sin, in fact, it is a kind of evil. Friction hurts, and that means you are hurting me!

It creates this fucked up upside-down bizarro logic wherein the corpos and the companies can transgress to almost literally any degree, as much as they want, as often as they want, but queer independent creators (and I cannot stress this enough: especially if they are not men) have to walk tightrope on a razor wire and may God help their souls if they ever put a foot wrong. We will shake and shake and shake the towers until they each fall down; I didn't like that step I think you were taking, how dare you believe you deserve to be up there!

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sometimes…….things that are fanon………are worse

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🧵🏡💡 - A New Home

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This took a long ass time to finish because I had no idea what to put down in the background…I’m extremely happy with it though! I’m sorry with how the current state of the internet is, that the piece is watermarked. Maybe in the future I’ll set up a cheap patreon that’s like I dunno $5-$10 ratio with various tiers so you guys can have access to the pieces watermark free, but that’ll be up for debate.

Drawn in pencil and lined with copic/free flowing ink brushes

I had a solid idea of how 9: Servare Nos would end for a while now, but obviously disclosing all of it would spoil literally the whole story so for now I’ll just say this;

In the original concepts, 6’s key was to the music box that held the Scientist’s message to 9 which used to not be a video, but simply the word “hope” engraved in a mirror. This was scrapped for time constraints, and the music box was left unlocked in the final film. I wanted to make 6’s key have a huge significance again in a similar manner, while containing that message of hope and moving forward.

And so, somewhere, way out in a countryside house, an isolated but safe locked house sits, waiting for its owner to return…and he does. In a sense.

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9 FANDOM I NEED YOU ALL TO GET THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW

I NEED YOU ALL TO LISTEN TO THIS SECTION OF THE AUDIO COMMENTARY

Apologies for the lack of visuals, but for context it is set during 5’s (infamous in animation I guess) death. Interestingly, Shane Acker explicitly states during the commentary that 7 is like a big sister figure of the group, and almost shrugs off romantic implications between 9 and 7. However, during the scene while discussing 5’s death and its impact on 9, he almost seems like he’s about to say something, after spending the entire film being very direct about character relationships/dynamics, he stumbles, hesitates, and doesn’t even describe 5 as 9’s best friend despite how close they are throughout the film.

This may be something younger folks online don’t understand (or maybe they do but I legit can’t tell because obviously I don’t have that perspective) but having characters being openly gay back in 2009 was still quite a big no-no in the industry. Obviously I can’t say this is confirmation for anything, I’m not Shane Acker, (would LOVE to pick at his brain and wonder what thoughts were tumbling while he created this world though) but when the man had been SO descriptive/talking in depth about everything that literally he couldn’t even fit all he wanted to say within the film time itself and presumably had to cut himself off when the end credits were literally about to finish rolling, this trip and almost complete derailment in whatever he was about to say was just extremely interesting and leaves you to wonder, and I am wondering a lot.

And now…if you’ll excuse me:

And it SHOULD go without saying but still ship what you want obviously but I needed to scream about this to the high heavens after having an actual crashout

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Der Gehirn - Concept sketches

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Lmao animatic drafts go brrrrr—