Avery's Art Blog

https://www.redbubble.com/people/avesmx/shop Avery | 28 | He/They | Portland-based multimedia artist, currently in school and doing my best to keep making stuff for myself as well

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Commission Post!

(Updated January '25)

I wasn't originally planning to take commissions during the school term, but since I have to take 16 credits this term, my financial aid refund has dropped by a kind of staggering amount compared to last term! I'll definitely be fine through February at least, but March is going to be a struggle and I was hoping to build some amount of cushion for the summer (when I won't be getting financial aid). So, offerings below, and I'm open to other ideas if you have something you want to see in my style!

Pokemon icons - $15-25

A pokemon of your choice in front of a simple background (I usually do gradients, but can also do solid colors or patterns!) - you can also choose a thicker or thinner lineart style, with both being pictured above.

Custom Animal Crossing villager - $25-45

These ones I can do pretty much any Animal Crossing villager species, and simple poses - I can also do the same solid color, gradient, or pattern backgrounds as the Pokemon icons. I'd just need a species, color(s), and any details or clothing you want added!

Character art - $45-85

I can only take a couple of these, and price would depend on if you want full-body or partial portraits and if you want a background or not. I am willing to do furry/anthro designs, fan art, NSFW, and moderate injuries/simpler robots but not a ton of gore or complicated mechs. For these I would need a description of your character and I would send you some pen-and-ink sketches to finalize the design in my style before starting on the digital work. (Second image courtesy of @taulupis as that was a commission of its character Anaïs!)

Feel free to send me an ask or a DM if you're interested in a commission - I can accept payment through PayPal, CashApp or Venmo! I also have acrylic painting commissions available, if anyone's interested in those :)

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oc outfit swap! I realized I never posted the final on here

Ursula, Priscilla, and Eirene are wearing outfits from @parasite-z, @snejkha, @thefrogwild, bread_puffs, snicket, @avesmx, @jellygay, @doriandonahue, @Akorn10ds, Myranoxis, @aomaoe, and @adelaides-hall \o/👗💌

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Welcome back to Show and Tell Saturday! I have returned from sending myself to the seaside for my own health a beach vacation, hooray :) What's new in your world this week?

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Technically it's Sunday now, but I wove this a week or two ago! Currently working on another project, and I want to make a bigger post documenting my process of learning to weave, but! I've got this to post for now :)

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I spent pretty much the entire week between Christmas and New Year helping my mom move into their new place, so didn't have a chance to put this together until just now 😅 But! Here's my Art vs. Artist for this year :D

I didn't get as much digital art done as I would have liked (which is why one of the digital pieces is, admittedly, just the mock-up/stencil for one of the traditional pieces), but I still feel really proud of the work I did get done, and I feel like I've grown a lot as an artist this year. I've also learned a lot of new traditional mediums, which is fun - I could honestly probably have made a whole third collage of other traditional pieces I did. Perks of being an art student, lots of studio time (whether you like it or not)! I also learned that my digital art is not well-sized for doing this sort of grid, and I would love to know what everyone's secret to nicely-aligned Art vs. Artist grids is, because trying to make things fit without making cropping anything too much was... a challenge, and one I think I only mostly succeeded in 😅

Didn't want to clutter up the alt text too much, so I've put more thorough image descriptions under the cut, and all but one of the digital pieces are also already posted elsewhere on my blog if you just need to see them larger.

Self-portrait (in both images): A pale, chubby person with blue hair dyed in a gradient from teal to indigo, shaved on the sides but long in the front and back. The back is in a braid over my shoulder. I am wearing black rectangular glasses, two earrings, and a jacket over a green t-shirt. The background is sage green, with white stars that look like they were drawn in chalk.

Digital collage: A collection of digital art pieces. Three art ArtFight works, two are original characters, and two are palette challenge pieces of fanart (one of Harrowhark from The Locked Tomb, one of Sevika from Arcane). The final piece is a simplified drawing of Laika, the Soviet Space Dog, surrounded by banners reading "Saint Laika of the Firmament, Patron Saint of One-Way Trips" in ornate text, and she has little stars above her head.

Traditional collage: Pieces include an etched print of a sleeping black and white cat, a charcoal drawing of the same cat but edited to have extra paws and eyes, a mixed media piece (pastel, ink, and mica powder) portraying iridescent birds and bugs, screenprinted sunflowers, a number of screenprints reading "make bad art," a (poorly) screenprinted version of the digital Laika piece, and a collection of twelve portraits drawn in ink, pastel, and charcoal - three of which are based on a Caravggio painting, and the other nine are studies of a self-portrait by Leland Bell.

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I spent pretty much the entire week between Christmas and New Year helping my mom move into their new place, so didn't have a chance to put this together until just now 😅 But! Here's my Art vs. Artist for this year :D

I didn't get as much digital art done as I would have liked (which is why one of the digital pieces is, admittedly, just the mock-up/stencil for one of the traditional pieces), but I still feel really proud of the work I did get done, and I feel like I've grown a lot as an artist this year. I've also learned a lot of new traditional mediums, which is fun - I could honestly probably have made a whole third collage of other traditional pieces I did. Perks of being an art student, lots of studio time (whether you like it or not)! I also learned that my digital art is not well-sized for doing this sort of grid, and I would love to know what everyone's secret to nicely-aligned Art vs. Artist grids is, because trying to make things fit without making cropping anything too much was... a challenge, and one I think I only mostly succeeded in 😅

Didn't want to clutter up the alt text too much, so I've put more thorough image descriptions under the cut, and all but one of the digital pieces are also already posted elsewhere on my blog if you just need to see them larger.

Self-portrait (in both images): A pale, chubby person with blue hair dyed in a gradient from teal to indigo, shaved on the sides but long in the front and back. The back is in a braid over my shoulder. I am wearing black rectangular glasses, two earrings, and a jacket over a green t-shirt. The background is sage green, with white stars that look like they were drawn in chalk.

Digital collage: A collection of digital art pieces. Three art ArtFight works, two are original characters, and two are palette challenge pieces of fanart (one of Harrowhark from The Locked Tomb, one of Sevika from Arcane). The final piece is a simplified drawing of Laika, the Soviet Space Dog, surrounded by banners reading "Saint Laika of the Firmament, Patron Saint of One-Way Trips" in ornate text, and she has little stars above her head.

Traditional collage: Pieces include an etched print of a sleeping black and white cat, a charcoal drawing of the same cat but edited to have extra paws and eyes, a mixed media piece (pastel, ink, and mica powder) portraying iridescent birds and bugs, screenprinted sunflowers, a number of screenprints reading "make bad art," a (poorly) screenprinted version of the digital Laika piece, and a collection of twelve portraits drawn in ink, pastel, and charcoal - three of which are based on a Caravggio painting, and the other nine are studies of a self-portrait by Leland Bell.

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I'll post this quarter's round of traditional stuff I've done in class soon, but I've also been (very intermittently) working on this drawing of my OC, Revelry, and am proud to say it's finally done! I think I want to change some things about his coat, and also switch up his tattoo placement, but... eh. Those are problems for the next time I draw him, haha. For now you should just all marvel at my delightful little guy^^

Pose reference from @adorkastock!

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I'll post this quarter's round of traditional stuff I've done in class soon, but I've also been (very intermittently) working on this drawing of my OC, Revelry, and am proud to say it's finally done! I think I want to change some things about his coat, and also switch up his tattoo placement, but... eh. Those are problems for the next time I draw him, haha. For now you should just all marvel at my delightful little guy^^

Pose reference from @adorkastock!

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I did an Inktober drawing way back in 2016 that I really liked, and redrew it in 2019 and it was a lot of fun, so I decided to do it again! Her hummingbird familiar makes a reappearance (I know he looks a little out of place - I tried coloring him in a way that matched the rest better, but hated how it looked ^^;), and she actually has gardening tools now. There's definitely stuff I want to work on and ways I want to improve still, but it's nice to do stuff like this and see how much I've grown over the years :)

I feel like now that I've drawn her so many times, I should probably give her a name and turn her into an actual character for something... Thoughts?

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on anon bc you can't send asks from sideblogs, but i'm @avesmx and i wanna do at least 3 polished/finished works for artfight this year and add at least one full body image for each of my characters on my profile bc i think artfight is very cool and fun but i can never make time to participate

How'd it go, @avesmx?

What is this blog? | Submit to get Killie another egg

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Well I sure forgot to check the activity on this blog for a while, so the egg itself is late, but I did successfully complete exactly three (3) Artfight attacks! I didn't finish doing references for all my characters, but I was more worried about the attacks (since I have all year to upload reference images), and I'm very pleased with how the attacks came out, so I think that's worth an egg.

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Was super busy with class and moving, so I did not end up doing nearly as many artfight attacks as I meant to (and there's one character I wanna draw once I have the chance even though it's over lol), and I also never got a chance to upload these here before. But! A couple attacks I did on @drpumpkinsart and @yonah952 of their characters Genas and Marlen! Coincidental that they're both merfolk, but I liked getting to play with the underwater color palettes and a fun seaweed brush I found^^

Hoping to make and post more stuff for the rest of summer now that I have a bit of a break from classes - fingers crossed lol.

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Artfight Attack 26: Marigold for @avesmx 💛

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!!!!!!!!!

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So I have been doing some ArtFights and need to upload them, and also I uh. Very much need to work on packing (which I sure meant to do today), but. The Fakemon allure got to me. So without further ado, I present:

- Pompomin, the Psychopomp Pokemon - This Pokemon is often seen just before or at the start of plagues, famines, and other outbreaks of suffering and disease. Many consider it an ill omen, but some believe it is trying to help.

- Psychogeist, the Reaper Pokemon - This Pokemon arrives where many people have died. It is said that it comes to guide souls to the afterlife, but you can challenge it to a game of skill when your time comes - but nobody is said to have beaten it yet. Evolves from Pompomin at level 49 when holding a Reaper Cloth.

- Verdipomp, the Herbalism Pokemon - This Pokemon can often be found in cities suffering from plague or on battlefields, where it can be seen tending to the sick and the wounded and, when needed, comforting them in their final moments. Evolves from Pompomin at level 49 when holding a Sachet.

The overall inspiration is psychopomps and plague doctor masks, with Verdipomp being inspired by the herbs used in plague masks and the medicine bags plague doctors often carried (and the general idea of herbal medicine), and Psychogeist being inspired by the Grim Reaper and the idea of challenging it to a game for one's soul. I might tweak their base stats a bit (mostly to make them a little bulkier and bring their attacking stats down a bit), and keep polishing their designs over time, but I'm really happy with how these have come out so far! I have a whole region I want to make and these are definitely going to be part of it, but I probably won't do much work on it for a while - these guys just really wouldn't leave me along until I got them finished out ^^;

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So I have been doing some ArtFights and need to upload them, and also I uh. Very much need to work on packing (which I sure meant to do today), but. The Fakemon allure got to me. So without further ado, I present:

- Pompomin, the Psychopomp Pokemon - This Pokemon is often seen just before or at the start of plagues, famines, and other outbreaks of suffering and disease. Many consider it an ill omen, but some believe it is trying to help.

- Psychogeist, the Reaper Pokemon - This Pokemon arrives where many people have died. It is said that it comes to guide souls to the afterlife, but you can challenge it to a game of skill when your time comes - but nobody is said to have beaten it yet. Evolves from Pompomin at level 49 when holding a Reaper Cloth.

- Verdipomp, the Herbalism Pokemon - This Pokemon can often be found in cities suffering from plague or on battlefields, where it can be seen tending to the sick and the wounded and, when needed, comforting them in their final moments. Evolves from Pompomin at level 49 when holding a Sachet.

The overall inspiration is psychopomps and plague doctor masks, with Verdipomp being inspired by the herbs used in plague masks and the medicine bags plague doctors often carried (and the general idea of herbal medicine), and Psychogeist being inspired by the Grim Reaper and the idea of challenging it to a game for one's soul. I might tweak their base stats a bit (mostly to make them a little bulkier and bring their attacking stats down a bit), and keep polishing their designs over time, but I'm really happy with how these have come out so far! I have a whole region I want to make and these are definitely going to be part of it, but I probably won't do much work on it for a while - these guys just really wouldn't leave me along until I got them finished out ^^;

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Marigold for @avesmx

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my girl!! i love her thank u :>

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I have some other ArtFight attacks planned for the coming week, but only had time to do one so far - @jayrockin's characters Talita and Shyam! (Links are all here on Tumblr, but the characters are also on their ArtFight profile)

There's a brief image description in the alt text, but I've added a longer and more detailed one below the readmore for anyone who can't see the image but wants a better idea of what the characters look like, since there's a lot to describe (if there's a better way to do this, please let me know!)

Dialogue transcription for anyone who can't read my handwriting:

S: I am so sorry.

T: I really don't mind, and it was my idea to go for a walk around the park anyway!

S: Yea, but it's not really how I had pictured our first "proper" date going. Not exactly dignified either...

T: I mean, I haven't dated that much, but I've heard way worse first date stories. Did I ever tell you how Gillie and Idrisah first met?

S: Weren't they kids when they met?

T: W-well-

Image ID: Talita is walking on four legs, all ending in four-toed hooves, and has fur-like feathers that are beige on her underside and a medium brown on her back and sides, with dark brown striping throughout the medium brown. She has an elongated face ending in a trunk, and she has yellow eyes and no external ears, and on the side of her body she has an excurrent nostril that looks like a hole in her . She is smiling slightly and wearing a sun hat with a yellow ribbon around it, and orange and yellow sundress, and seafoam-green sandals, as well as wearing glasses that are strapped around her head. She has her arms tucked up against her chest.

Shyam is a genetically-modified human who is shorter than the average human and has a long tail, which is currently curled in a spiral. She has purple skin and pinkish-orange hair, including visible body hair on her arms and along her tail, and has large ears and whiskers. She is wearing a light purple shirt, dark blue pants that are tailored to go around her tail, and a pair of sneakers that look like black Converse, but they have been modified to accommodate the opposable thumbs on her feet. She is sitting astride Talita's back and resting her head on Talita's neck with her eyes closed. She's reaching one arm up with her hand resting near her face, holding on to Talita with her fingers partially obscured by Talita's feathers.

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Very last-minute, but I finally updated my ArtFight page and made my little roster image! The human characters are relatively new, so I don't have any ready-to-upload images for them besides these little thumbnails, but I'm working on hopefully getting some full-body references done for them soon (and if you have any questions feel free to ask!)

As always, I probably won't get a ton of attacks done, though I have more free time this year so hopefully I can do a good few :) I'm always down for revenge attacks and have no qualms about friendly fire, I'm just here for designs that look neat, but if you attack me that's definitely a good way to get my attention 👀

Go Team Crystals!

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Okay so I know I have not been super active here lately, but that's because I have been (yet again) super busy doing studio art for the last few months! I took a film photography class and a printmaking class focused on etching, and both were brand new mediums for me, so there was a lot to learn and I was putting in a ton of studio hours (I spent seven hours in the print studio working on my final the day before it was due 😑), plus I had two other classes and a workshop - I barely had time to sleep or eat some days, much less work on other art 😅

This next term is still gonna be pretty busy, but I won't have any studio classes, so hopefully I'll have time to work on stuff that's easier to post here! I have a lot of trouble photographing my non-digital work well and deciding what pieces are good enough to post when I'm learning a new medium haha. But I'm definitely still here and still working on art! Here's some of the photos and prints I made if y'all wanna see what I've been working on, and I'm happy to answer any questions about any of the pieces 😊