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1st: You can call me Ethan if you don't wanna spend 80 years typing my username.

2nd: I VIVIDLY remember there being a print of Soap in the rain and I just gotta know if there is a print/drawing of Ghost responding. If not, would you possibly make it a thing?

Thank you (I write a lot normally, I'm so sorry) and I love your art!

I'll compromise, I will refer to you as Nerdy Ethan 🤝

I DID have a sketch of Ghost responding at one point, but I never took it further. It was him kicking back in the bell tower of the church, hanging out with some bats and stuff. It never felt quite right though. If a different idea ever hit me and felt RIGHT, I would probably draw it, but it seems unlikely at this point 🤔

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Pardon some of the heart spam. Just absolutely love all your artworks.

I was just curious. What are some things that inspired your art style?

I love both your lil jellybean cartoony and more proportional cartoony! ITS SO FREAKIN FRACKIN CUTE

I'll never say no to some heart spam! It's nice to know people look at my stuff even when I'm ghosting my own accounts 🥲

Part of my style is just what I'm capable of drawing reliably. When I first started drawing, that meant characters with stick arms and legs. It let me draw with more energy and action without having to worry about anatomy. The chibis were just the next step on the ladder 😅

Thinking back, I think Smile Brush by Waroo had a HUGE impact on me. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for something to read. It's a bunch of vignettes (in comic format) of this dude's life. Had me laughing and crying by turns.

I also remember cutting out the Mutts comic strip from the Sunday paper and pinning them on a corkboard in my room because I thought those looked so cute :3

I'm still very much on a journey to figure out how I like to draw, so I'm sure you'll see my art change some more in the future (and yet, I bet you'll still be able to see the similarities between my styles)

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self confidence is his coping mechanism

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Hi!! CAN WE PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE GET A CONTINUATION OF CAT GHOST AND DOG SOAP?! I FELT SO BAD THAT SOAP WAS SO HAPPY AND GHOST JUST WALKED OFF WITH THE BOX. Just one little pat, please!!!

Hello!! Haha, I had one last comic idea for that little AU, but it's not a direct continuation. I'm actually hesitating to draw it because I told my friend the idea and she said only people who own cats will get it. So now I'm choosing to believe that most of you guys own cats and will understand the comic, please and thank you.

I promise Ghost warmed up to Soap though. He even shares the box sometimes 😆

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Birds of a feather... 🐤🐤🐤🐣

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You magical unicorn of a person!!! Your Ghoap are is amazing!!!

The worm comic is one of my favourites! Also the fact that you drew Ghost’s tattoo sleeve makes me smile!

You are amazing!!!

I'm happy you like them! 🦄

Ghost's tattoo is such a pain to scribble in (I never know how blurry I can make it without it looking weird), but it's very important to me 😂

I adore that the worm comic is so popular, it's kind of silly, but I think grief/love/honoring someone can take many forms (:

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Your cute 141 art is the best and so funny! Is Gaz an owl and Price a deer in Ghost’s birthday strip? 🫣 I’ve been thinking about them for ages and can’t figure it out. Thank you!

Thank you!!

Good guess, Price is a bull, he's got little horns hidden under his hat xD I wasn't thinking so specifically with gaz, he's a bird and his feathers are yellow (so that he and soap have a nice contrast if I actually colored them)

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Birds of a feather... 🐤🐤🐤🐣

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A drawn and condensed excerpt from chapter 2 of @vinelark 's buy back the secrets

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I NEED MORE PUPPY SOAP! PLEASE! WHEN YOU HAVE THE TIME! I NEED IT! HE’S TOO CUTE!!! THE HYBRID 141 IS TOO CUTE. AAAAAHHHHHH

I CAN GUARANTEE... AT LEAST ONE MORE HYBRID COMIC 💪

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Sorry, I’m back. I had more thoughts after i hit send… so How dare u continued;

HIS HEAD. JUST POPS UP. Like HIIII *cute little smile*. It just pops up. All cute and fucking adorable. And Price has those proud happy dad crows feet while his tail wags harder. And Simon JUST PICKS HIM UP like a minor inconvenience AND PASSES HIM OFF. Like ‘here let me remove this problem and just wait till i blow you away with my use of this box dad- i wont let you down’. COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT BUT SOMEHOW STILL BLOODY CHUFFED WITH HIS BOX. Gaz doesn’t even question it, just hold poor little Soap up and takes his hand. Underrated Hero.

My mum used to threaten to wash my mouth out with Soap. Thats what u need. God I’m not even a little jealous.

Sincerely,

I’m not crying. U R. Get off my bus.

ROUND 2? I'm sorry to say that Ghost at that time would probably put soap out in a cardboard box that said "free" were he not hoarding all the cardboard boxes for himself 🤧 and there's my stop 🏃💨🚌

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How dare u.

How dare you create something so unassumingly funny and painfully accurate. Especially when it’s something i can never have. For the rest of my life i can never open a birthday present without being disappointed it’s not a puppy dog Soap, with adorable ears and a wiggly tail. Why is he so fucking happy to be picked up and given to Gaz, only to reach back for oblivious Cat Simon as Prices face falls in defeat.

It’s heartbreaking and adorable and hilarious and you have absolutely no right to just create visual poetry like that and implode peoples lives like it’s just another day of the week.

I can’t even pat the little bastard. And he would love it. And I would love it. I would take such good care of cute snuggly soap and i can’t even have him. It’s rude and selfish, and i hope you take a good hard look at yourself and think about what you’ve done. I’m sitting on the bus smiling at my phone like an idiot, giggling silently- i can’t even tell anyone, let alone show them lest they also suffer the same fate.

I get it- it’s a terrible burden, you have all this talent and brilliant execution, but like warn a bitch okay? You can’t just let people fall in love like this and carry on as if nothing happened.

Sincerely,

The idiot on the bus who definitely isn’t crying.

I...I.. 😳 Haha, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! It's ok, show everyone, infect them all. We should all struggle together over small happy soap 😔❤️

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To be a robin :')

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Love your art and couldn't figure out what it reminded me of. I figured it out, it's Captain Frog. Idk why, I just imagine your lil 141 guys in a Captain Frog-esq anime and causing all sorts of mayhem. I apologize if you don't know Captain Frog. It's a silly little anime and I love it...and your art.

This guy? I never watched or read it, but looking at it, I can see what you mean, thank you for thinking my art is similar 😂🥰 it seems really cute!

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First Meeting

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The Unending Fight for... Relevancy