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artist / full-time human construct ❌ Reposting / ❌ AI • a spot in the periphery of your vision, blurry and ephemeral • [ @leafpile-disturber is also me ]

[grim-leafer]

It's done!!! Finally!!!

Two months in the making and it's finally out of my head - Huge relief, I hope you all enjoy it :) Tried a lot of new things, so it was a good learning experience.

It's not within my right to ask, but I would incredibly appreciate if you all could hype this one up and make it visible - I always say (and truly believe) that it's not about the numbers, but this has been such a long project in the making and it would mean the world to me if it does well <3

[grim-leafer]

Word Prompt: Briefing

Hits the button to go to the next slide and it's a 20 second cube transition

[Art Date: February 27 2025]

[grim-leafer]

It's crazy that after almost a year and a half I still *consistently* get notifications for this silly doodle <3 Sometimes it'll die down a bit but then another large wave will hit and I'll check in and see the amount of notes it's accumulated and... Goddamn. The people love skk powerpoint presi!

[rexmin203]

She had a snack :)

ARTFIGHT ATTACK FOR @grim-leafer'S BEAST !!!! YAYY YAYYY my account !!

[revg22]

artfight is killing meee

-- @buggycandraw MerPyro

-- @grim-leafer Scotty

-- cheridoesart -- @bunmenace -- Saer154

-- @nonbeanie-writes -- @kwizard14

and ofcourse the animatic I made for @casperarts

just lots of vsmp oc's, aside from one

I'm realizing I'm leaning to a more painterly style each illustration, the first 2 being the latest ones

fight me

This is why I might be a little slow posting fanart on here rn

[grim-leafer]

Hard launching another recent OC I threw on art fight, Scotty. He's my little camera and I love him

Never to be found without his older cousin.

[Art Date: June 3 / 25 2026]

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Did a quick update of beast's ref for art fight <3 First year participating, just threw a couple characters up so that's fun [Art Date: July 3 2026]

[grim-leafer]

I'm not going to say a lot on this subject - a lot of people have made very eloquent posts on the matter, and I encourage everyone to consider those with an open and critical mind. A lot of what I would have to say would just be repetition. What I will say is that seeing very dear friends of mine receive death and rape threats over the past couple days has made me realize I cannot just let this blow over. This is the type of fan environment I will never assist in cultivating, and refuse to participate in.

Dictating what information and forms of creative expression are 'allowed' to be produced and accessed to any degree in the world for the comfort of the few has and always will be an infringement on fundamental rights to intellectual exploration and expression. This is not just about shipping, and has never been; This is about the standard being set of allowing one individual to dictate what the public may explore. Respect each other yes, people have a right to control their own personal spaces and what they do and don't want to see, and people should never personally force subject matter on others who don't wish to view them, but understand that this control cannot be cleanly applied to online spaces - outside of one's own personal filtering and blocking - without the very types of witch-hunting and harassment we are currently seeing. This leads to vulnerable people being attacked.

The things you see in an online information space (in this case fanart and fanfiction), which is akin to browsing subject matter in a library or archive, is not the same as information being curated and presented to you, as a gift or otherwise, from one individual to another, and cannot be condemned as such. On the same wavelength, sending death and rape threats to others directly and attacking people in comments sections is not a moral equivalent to seeing art in a public space where anyone who wishes not to see it can easily filter it out or choose to scroll past - if you see something you dislike in a public online space, then that thing was simply not intended for you. It is not a personal attack or violation. You can choose to not engage.

My account has always been for me and the topics that I wish to explore in both fan works and original fiction, and I will continue to create what makes me happy. I hope that other people continue to create what makes them happy as well.

If you disagree with any of this, please exercise your right to controlling your own space by blocking me, and all the best to everyone.

[grim-leafer]

Overdue but I'll talk a bit about my amazing shapeshifting beast below mini-beast doodles <3 (Cole belongs to @emet-selch-apologism)

[Art Date: June 25 2026]

Other posts with beast / for non-mini reference

My beast is an elusive, solitary creature that lives high up in the jagged mountains and surrounding snowy forests that encapsulate a small town in the valley below.

The myth is that it is an immortal, legendary creature that strikes fear in the hearts of the people who live below it, walking and camouflaging in the snow and ice and snapping up children who misbehave as well as those who stray too far from the village. The science is that it belongs to a species of shapeshifters, an apex predator who can take on the form of other creatures in its habitat to integrate, mate and hunt, as well as being a big fluffy cutie-pie in its original form. (And if it does eat the occasional person that's neither here nor there, they were the ones that walked into beast's territory, after all).

Its place in our story, in short, is that it has been Dejan's (Rex's terrible terrible scientist <3) long-standing mission to study this beast, to understand it. The legends have slowly been acknowledged - throughout the years and the development of human knowledge - to be most likely over-exaggerated, built on fear due to lack of understanding, and Dejan wants to be the one to finally crack what exactly this beast is, to see what really makes it tick. To study it, he employs the help of Cole (pictured in the first image) our resident monster wrangler, and these two bring it into captivity. During its time in captivity, Cole is very much mistreated alongside beast, causing them to form quite a close bond as they both suffer at the hand of our lovely freak scientist.

I love my beast dearly, there are a lot of themes we tackle in the story surrounding the projection of human morality and selfish desires onto a creature who is just following its instincts, who is inherently free from these concepts and structures - until of course humans start meddling with it. I adore deeply that it exists as a bit of a mirror onto which the surrounding characters in the story project their own views and constructions of the world <3

[grim-leafer]

New pfp / layout because I love Under the Knife and I love my beast <3

[grim-leafer]

🎉 Happy 6 months to Under the Knife! 🎉

I figured I just had to do a little frame redraw to celebrate the occasion - I can't believe it's been half a year already... [Art Date: June 22 2026]

[grim-leafer]

I love my beast!!!! (and the man it's with is fine too, I guess)

Cole (aka 'the man it's with') belongs to @emet-selch-apologism

[Art Date: May 4-25 2026]

[grim-leafer]

Some misc doodles and a concept sketch for a collective story with @rexmin203, @akeshimas and @emet-selch-apologism <3 We're all super normal about it

[Art Date: April 23-May 1 2026]

[grim-leafer]

Accidentally (and unwillingly) took a very long creative hiatus - hoping to get back into the swing of things now that I have more time to draw. Comic plans are still happening, excited to get those out (hopefully) very soon <3

[grim-leafer]

Overwhelmed / Overstimulated

[Art Date: March 29 2026]

[grim-leafer]

Drew these forever ago, was hoping to complete a couple more before posting but... life, haha-

More beautiful @emet-selch-apologism OCs! Reference sketches for my evil future plans

[Art Date: February 18/19 2026]

[grim-leafer]

hello hi just wanted to say i am so delighted by your czeslaw haunting pyro art i think about it all the time okay that's all have a good day :3

Yayy, I'm so so glad! <3 One of my all time favourite concepts I've drawn for vsmp- Despite it having been drawn four (four??? that's so scary) months ago, I'm so glad it's still bouncing around peoples' brains. It's fallen on the backburner because of a new AU comic I really want to get out soon, but I am working on a sequel piece!! So you have that to look forward to o7

Also- If there is an audience for it, people can feel free to send in asks, I'm always happy to provide a platform / maybe throw a couple doodles out for any thoughts <3 (In general too just- Love to hear what people have to say).

[grim-leafer]

A Czeslaw sketch for the masses

[Art Date: March 13 2026]