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Nova Kahan’s Artblog Main Blog: http://fluorescentnova.tumblr.com/

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I don’t appreciate the judgement Freya

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Brillig is a very high energy cat. Like I have never had a cat like this. So a couple weeks ago I put Freya’s harness on him since she decided she didn’t really like it anymore and.

He just.

There was no training involved.

He’s just super chill with it and loves to go on walks.

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I haven’t uploaded art here in 5ever but uh? Gonna try and change that I guess!

This is Lóna Alondil, my half-elf shadow sorcerer for the Dungeons and Dating # that @kroov started 👍

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I was trying to find art from 2010 and actually found one from *2005* and I couldn’t resist redrawing it. 

I’ll probably still finish my 2010 redraw, but for now enjoy Yuki aka my Gaia Online Persona. 

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I finally finished a project I started a few months ago! It has been quite the labor of love as I worked to illustrate a poster for The Adventure Zone. I hope you all enjoy it!!!

Johann and Fisher are my fave boys, but honestly every character means so much to me! I was listening to THAT episode of Story and Song the morning my cat got attacked (she was fine!) so I haven’t relistened to it since because it makes me such an emotional mess. 

Please don’t repost this!  Instagram - Twitter

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This is a really personal piece so get ready for a wall of text.

This past October was the 5 year anniversary of me hitting one of the lowest points of my life. But that also means this November was the anniversary of of me walking out into the ocean and having a moment of clarity where I realized I wanted to keep living.

I realize this is pretty heavy and personal! It’s not something I would normally share, but as I recover and continue to struggle I can’t help thinking about all the other people out there struggling. Ending the stigma around talking about Mental Health is SO important, so that’s why I ultimately decided to post about it.

This was made with a mix of traditional and digital media. I inked with traditional ink, painted the big panel with oils and then colored the rest digitally. Then cried as I went to put them together and it wasn’t working! I think I made it work in the end.

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Last day of Inktober Animal Fables! This one was a long time favorite, but has come to mean a lot more to me I recent years. Whether we are looking at other artists or just other people, it is easier to criticize them when we feel insecure. It’s something I definitely have to remind myself of often.

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Another day another Inktober Animal Fable! I had always heard this one as “necessity is the mother of invention”, but as an artist I like this version a lot more! I feel like every drawing is one pebble in the pitcher and little by little I’ll get there.

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I decided to do more Animal Fables for Inktober this year so I could make a small anthology to go with my Frog and Scorpion Comic. I wanted to add my own twist again… but I actually found I really like most animal fable morals!

I hadn’t heard this one before, and it really spoke to me, so I decided to make it the first one I illustrated this year. While some things are out of our control, it’s important to remember to be mindful of the sort of things we put out into the world.

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A self portrait as a GHOST as has become a bit of an October Tradition for me. …except this year it is fully rendered cause uh why not?

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For the first time in a couple years I actually remembered it was Dani’s birthday BEFORE it happened! Thank you to everyone who has supported me writing and drawing her for the past five years! I can’t wait to actually start my comic with her.

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I can’t believe i forgot the word “fantroll” when I posted Alisse lmao

Anyway, have another! 

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After playing all of Hiveswap: Friendsim I’m 100% back on my Trollsona/Troll OC bullshit

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AND FINALLY…  Now that I have dumped all of my art from 2018 here, here is my summary!!! Next year I’m hoping to do more art that is personal projects as opposed to just homework. Also I really want to be more active during the summer. Also July’s picture was a tweet I drafted after having my wisdom teeth removed. The most important work of art I have ever created. I’m much more active on Instagram and Twitter Previous Years: 2017 2016 2015 2014

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I haven’t even gotten to see SpiderVerse⁠⁠ yet, but I drew Dani a spidersona anyways??? She’s based on a Crab Spider, specifically Thomisus onustus (Also yes that is 100% a Danger Days Spider on her sweatshirt, she’s READY for 2019)

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Key Poses, Expressions and Turnaround for my characters Dani, Nell and Jimmy. It was for an assignment, but Nell/Jimmy are characters I have had the idea of for a while. They are both main characters for a comic I’ve wanted to do for a while and hopefully I’ll finally get my butt into gear and work on it!

I wanted to rework Dani for a while. I thought about changing her whole name, but settled on just changing her last name to Mulligan. “A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. Its best-known meaning is in golf, whereby a player is informally allowed to replay a stroke, even though this is against the formal rules of golf.”

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We had to do a cut paper illustration featuring an animal larger than normal with a city skyline. Naturally I used Roxy! Pretty happy with how it turned out!