Hey. I Like You. *revives my art blog*

you want ocs? because that's how you get ocs

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art blog info post ✍️✍️✍️ (under construction)

call me Jay! (any pronouns)

I’m a twenty something digital artist who mainly draws OCs (mine and others). most of em have lots and lots of lore! I’m on artfight, toyhouse, and unvale, and I have a youtube channel w speedpaints (links later)

I currently use medibang to draw! I also mess around with lots of different traditional mediums.

my comms are currently CLOSED, but that will change in the future!

I have super turbo unmedicated adhd so I can and will vanish for months on end <3

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Fennra moment… she’s my oldest fantroll, but her design has stayed surprisingly consistent until now. I decided to change a couple of major details this time around, though, including her disguise being rust instead of yellow (she was a mutant yellow in her first iteration and it was in reference to that), adding more bandages (to make the connection to Fenrir’s binds), and… sneeffff… sobbbe… got rid of her ears. I was really attached to them, but mostly because I got backlash in some discord about em. (for the record i still don’t agree with the folks who gave me shit, don’t be the fun police.)

old designs under cut

2020 and 2016, respectively. can’t believe my shittiest daughter (affectionate) is almost TEN. *disintegrates into dust*

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finished this late last night. I think it’s important to keep making art, even if it’s just silly self-indulgent drawings of ocs. maybe even especially silly self-indulgent drawings of ocs. every crumb of joy we can create for ourselves and others is a victory. keep fighting.

anyway do you think she’s playing wonderwall

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I need to practice drawing animals more lmao… like wtf is that thang

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Wodinn’s turn for the revamp! fewer changes than Sindri- just changed flower colors and added a vest to play into the hippie vibes. that, and I decided to use the EZ signs for these updated designs- I love using runes for their signs, but a) they’re still preserved in the gals’ names and b) some of the runes just look like regular-ass english letters, which I’ve never been super happy with. they do have sentimental value tho, so I’ll probably keep two copies of the same ref- one with the EZ sign, and one with the rune.

speaking of, here’s Sindri with her squiggly line sign

(these two are gonna be the stars of the friendsim thingy so they’ll be getting talksprites soon! maybe)

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quick Sindri revamp. she ended up shorter and scruffier than in her old ref, but I like it a lot for her. I decided to lean into the guts vibes, giving her a similar hairline/bangs and of course having her wear her Big Ass Sword. I also decided to cover her roboleg more, since it could be considered a sign of weakness. girlypop is probably pretty nervous about ascension.

is it just me or does she look like she needs a jacket to go with those big pants (and mayhaps give to her bestie??)

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jacket :)

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quick Sindri revamp. she ended up shorter and scruffier than in her old ref, but I like it a lot for her. I decided to lean into the guts vibes, giving her a similar hairline/bangs and of course having her wear her Big Ass Sword. I also decided to cover her roboleg more, since it could be considered a sign of weakness. girlypop is probably pretty nervous about ascension.

is it just me or does she look like she needs a jacket to go with those big pants (and mayhaps give to her bestie??)

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I found the talksprites I made for a few of my fantrolls forever ago! I was looking for them because of… reasons…

I’ve definitely improved since then, but I still think they’re cool! they’ll be a valuable reference for my silly little project

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back on my fantroll bullshit bc I will never be free <3<

I may or may not have realized that I have everything I need to make a friendsim, so I figured Sindri needed an update. just scribbles for now, but I did make a realization

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doodles from last night’s dnd session! we all realized that due to Ramm aging 7 years in one night (thanks feywild), he was a kid at the orphanage when a fellow party member was volunteering there!! naturally I had to draw some baby Ramm shenanigans…

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there’s been a stray cat wandering around the house lately, so my mom and I have been leaving food out for it. tonight, I heard a noise outside my window, so I decided to take a look.

I turn on the outside light to find three surprised raccoons, one with its little hand in the bowl. they all look guilty as shit. they look like a trio of Dickensian orphans about to beg me not to send them to the workhouse.

artists rendition bc they were gone when I came back with my phone. I did not send them to jail for years for stealing bread but I did bring the dish back inside

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Lupe! she belongs to @utterhomestucktrash and was super fun to draw :)

speedpaint below cut!

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quick warm up doodle of my weird dog

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Royce family photo 📸

I finally have my laptop back, so after this no more ipad shenanigans for me! my hand is very thankful lmao

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my laptop is still in the shop but I borrowed my mom’s ancient ipad to do some doodling. huge respect to you finger mains out there, idk how you do it! my hand was hurting by the time I finished each of these.

used my girl Sorrel to experiment with the program and get a feel for it, then I decided to work on the designs for the rest of her family.

Nat (she/her, second pic) is Sorrel’s aunt, who was her main guardian growing up. she works as a vet tech, which she uses as a cover for illegally distributing free medicine to community members. she likes to play poker with her war buddies and get up in everyone’s business. tbh she’s not the best choice for a parental figure, but at least she’ll tell you how to survive a knife fight. in future drawings I plan to give her more fat bc she Would Not be skinny (affectionate).

Tabby (she/her, third pic) is Sorrel’s mother. she struggled with mental health issues throughout Sorrel’s childhood and disappeared when Sorrel was a very young teen, so she wasn’t much of a parent. she was the leader of an armed uprising against the tyrannical old government, which succeeded at establishing a better system, but she wasn’t really built to settle down into a normal life. a good person, perhaps, but she is haunted by things she refuses to speak of.

I can’t wait to draw these gals together (and finalize their colors) once I get my pooter back

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I’m gonna post my artfight attacks as soon as I get my computer fixed!! I’m pretty happy with how my pieces turned out this year but unfortunately I must Procure Them

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attack for my friend @/Scarzie on artfight! everyone tell BEEF she’s the goodest robot dinosaur ever 🦕