GravesOddities

25 • They/Them • AuDHD Artist 🌦️ This blog is for Updates, Sketches, Personal art, WIPs, & Socializing 🌈 For Illustrations and Short stories follow @hauntedbyanimals 🌾

[gravesoddities]

Status Update: Keeping up with @gravesoddities

This blog has now become a diverse Creative blog where I'll be posting updates, Sketches, Personal art, & WIPs, as well as Socializing.

All bigger illustrations will be posted to @hauntedbyanimals as part of a larger project!

[gravesoddities]

Was it worth it?

Art for my class with the theme of audience as dissonance. It didn't turn out as planned but I still love it!

[hauntedbyanimals]

Unknown Journal Entry # --8

“I’ve discovered these delightful creatures I’m naming ‘Mechanical Bugs’. I would have gone with ‘Mechanical Insects’ though after finding variants like the arachnid and isopod look alikes it would feel contradictory to do so.

Mechanical bugs are found primarily in overgrown planes that contain some form of tech such as live screens. They are abundantly found on Floor 11 - Room 36, ‘The Overgrown’ in particular due to the ideal conditions of this habitat. They cannot survive long outside these conditions. After many failed attempts, I’ve finally perfected recreating these ideal conditions in an enclosure form so that I can travel with them as companions.

During my research I’ve learned about their utility capabilities, intelligence, and capacity to be trained. These organisms are capable of repairing objects, warning for predators, and creating fuel sources. During my observations I have witnessed a variety of ‘species’ similar to our own back home. These species specialize in different tasks such as; spiders with different screw driver heads for feet and a work-light abdomen, ‘silkworms’ that produce synthetic fibers, and USBeetles that reboot the tech when they get viruses.

Mechanical bugs have a mutualistic relationship with the plants they live with, where the bugs maintain and repair the plants, while plants provide decaying matter for the bugs to convert into a fuel source. Plants in this plane in particular have grown hostile towards human shaped entities due to a group of poachers in the past. The poachers collected as many mechanical bugs as they could find and salvaged them for parts and energy sources, causing the population to decline and a temporary period of hardship for the plants.

If you plan on taking any as utility companions, be sure to only take a few, ideally luring them into enclosures rather than snatching them up to avoid aggressive behavior from the plants."

[gravesoddities]

i would hug jamie, they look so squish wanted to draw them but i dont think i can anymore hope yall do well

They’re very squishy, I hope to one day make a plush of them

Sorry to hear that, I hope you’re doing alright!

[gravesoddities]

I just realized I haven't really posted my silly creature here before so here's a little art dump of them 🫀

They're a mix of a whole bunch of animals including Genet, Asian Palm Civet, Aardvark, and Costa Rican Glass Frog

[gravesoddities]

Drawing for a friend's 27th birthday!

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Today is my birthday 🌱

I will be grateful for the repost ~

if you have a desire to please me on my birthday, then you can send me a donation 👉🏻👈🏻

[gravesoddities]

You weren't supposed to remember this dream.

I wanted to apply my skills I learned from figure drawing last quarter! I'm really happy with how it turned out. I'm considering posting these types of illustrations to my second blog @hauntedbyanimals as "paintings found in the mall" and just keeping this blog as furry and personal art.

[hauntedbyanimals]

"Coming Soon!" Poster

*This photo has been altered for viewer safety.

The promotional poster for the grand opening of Serenity Mall that was found in the weathered bag. The number of stories for the hotel was scratched off upon time of discovery; however, [REDACTED] Fashion & Beauty has been altered due to injury of staff upon viewing the content.

Potential symptoms when read include: paranoia, migraines, nausea, hives, skin lesions, mild hallucinations, mania, sanity loss, yellowing of the eyes and upset stomach.

[gravesoddities]

You are complicit

Both done for a college assignment about a complicit audience and as a vent from an outside perspective of feeling exposed. Unfinished, might come back to it in the future.

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✦ ⟢ Mini art dummmp ⟢ ✦

[thecollectibles]

Art by Leah Cosman

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Approved sign schematics for the restaurant "Pretzel People" and a photograph of their food when it first opened. What originally started out as cute pretzels shaped like people and a booming restaurant, slowly became vacant as they morphed into the shapes of "human pretzels", physically contorted with pained expressions.

[hauntedbyanimals]

Unknown Journal Entry # ---

"In the middle of nowhere, lies the center of our universe; Shrouded by mountains and trees, a forgotten dream sleeps.

Those who remember, called it Serenity Mall..." - Unknown

A partial entry from the damaged journal found in the weathered bag, which was discovered 3 miles from the town's last known location on the side of an old hiking trail. Inside the bag, other artifacts that were recovered include:

1 broken camcorder

2 corrupted SD cards

1 broken glass box with a dead insect inside (non-native species)

1 woodcarving of [REDACTED]

1 shattered magic 8-ball

3 cassette tapes

1 crumpled "Coming Soon!" poster for The Mall

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[maybeimjustugly]

Urla tries public transportation to slide her parents! (Spoilers she hates it!)

Background by my pal @gravesoddities