Justr little guy.

Welcome to my page! Just a 20-something bug guy who loves beasts and critters. You can call me Lee or Bug (They/He). COMMISSION STATUS: (Currently) Closed. Bluesky: @bugferbrains.bsky.social

[bugferbrains]

Hello, Tumblr! Let's try this again. My name's Lee, but you can also call me Bug. A few years ago, I posted art on this site, mainly monster art and TF2 art (as you can see, lmao). I became stagnant and frustrated with art for a time after, went through a lot of personal stuff (yay), then disappeared off the platform for a couple years. I've been getting a hell of a lot better in my personal life and found a new joy for art I'd been missing for a while. Thought I'd start anew here. If you see some of my art and recognize it, just a heads up that this blog won't be so heavily dedicated to TF2 like my old one was, but there will be a sprinkling of it here and there (actually got a WIP in the works now). In the meantime, I'll be uploading some stuff I did while I was away. That's all, folks! Hope to see ya around.

[zooophagous]

Grisps him

[kaygarde]

Dragon tiles

[glassshine]

yo bro do the thing

[worgengel]

workin

[artbyblastweave]

One of my favorite elements in the TF2 comics are the recurring beats implying that all things being equal Heavy would much rather be a morally righteous action hero in the tradition of Dolph or Arnie- rejoining Team Fortress to crush "evil men," implicitly doing so extensively as part of his tragic backstory, going in guns blazing to rescue a buddy from the Korean Mob, rallying everyone to go fight Merasmus's monster army during the Halloween party, getting the big climactic set piece fight with the deranged supervillain on an island base. But he's held back from the role he was born to play by his association with the Mann Family clusterfuck. He wasted the prime of his Rambo years shooting people in the desert for no reason.

Which ends up being sort a recurring beat, for many of the characters who aren't life-outcome agnostic in the manner of Pyro or Medic. Scout instantly finds extensive romantic success the second he lets go of Ms. Pauling and detaches himself from the badlands. Spy coming to terms with, and making up for lost time with, the family he was out in the Badlands to avoid. Engineer trundles along in his support capacity until his contract is up, smart enough to warn Helen's potential successor away from the same path but never able to break away from it himself until her death forced his hand- never exposing himself to the true pointlessness of the practical problem he was on retainer to solve. Demo implicitly realizing that for all his vaunted family pride in mercenary work he's spent the last several years on the second-string relief team that none of his peers took seriously. Saxton realizing that the joke of an ultramasculine adventure hero with a desk job has worn kind of thin and he's removed himself from his native genre for no real reason, to no personal fulfilment. Soldier.... is actually in the exact same general life situation but with a wife and kids along for the ride, good for him.

Ultimately it turned into a story about how the characters have outgrown the excuse plot- a story about how all of these people have much more interesting stories to be involved in, more compelling things to be doing than what we've spent the last seventeen years watching them do. And now they're free and clear and on their way.

[tealmussel]

Hi, all! I'm offering $10 character doodles for a limited time :)

☕ kofi link

Simple character doodles - What you get is what you get!

Cheaper and quicker compared to my regular commissions.

In a messy traditional pencil style!

✔️ OCs, Furries, Fanart

❌ Sexual Content, Gore

[tealmussel]

I'm going to sleep, here's what I finished today :))

[schadhauser]

treehoppers 💚 (plus one mystery bug)

[darinaursus]

🎸🕷️🕸️

[spoapbox-art]

Princess ✨🕸️👑

[woman-becomer]

I'm like, a bug of some sort

[titsay]

[titsay]

print available here 🫶 https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/titsay/one-day/

[olddivan]

[odetoscavengers]

if you dont have a jaw, a bear trap placed into your neck should work just as well

[nasfera2]

I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

[liltimmys]

yall wont trick me into listening to kpop

[emily84]

You can try Radiooooo.com - The Musical Time Machine!!

choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!

you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).

I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)

[randomslasher]

This is the best website anyone has ever shared.

[literarycrow]

For modern stations, Radio Garden is great as well

[enchantedeyeball]

little beetle I made :D really happy with how this one turned out

[bugferbrains]

Doodle dump. I've been going insane thinking about art style and voice since coming back from Galaxycon, so I did these to force myself to draw more slowly and really think about art style + subject matter.