kivinelock | commissions open

Key/Rain | 2D Artist | he/they | 21 Currently obsessed with Cult of the Lamb and Dredge working on writing and art!

[kivinelock]

Hello! I suppose I should make a post on this, since it's been a while and I know some people around here are pretty new!

(last edited Nov. 2025)

I'm a 21 year old 2D artist who sometimes dabbles in pixel and emoji art (though the latter is kept to a separate blog I'd like to keep separate and dont share anything other than this type of art on, @kivine-emojis). I primarily draw animals and non-humanoid fictional creatures/species, but I do have human and humanoid characters I also love drawing!

My current queue for art commissions, personal planned art, and any other projects can be viewed here:

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To inquire about commissions, feel free to e-mail me or reach out on Discord (I'm quicker to respond on there)!

I check Tumblr when I go online, but that's not always daily. You're free to ask questions in the comments of this post, but for the quickest response time, you can message me on Discord! My username there is, as is in most places, kivinelock

[deadgrldrive]

Au were Rylan gets send on the tulpar

[for-those-who-wait]

You send people to space to save the literal entire world and you still don't trust them to dispense their own drugs

I didn't see any art of this scene so I decided to throw this in the ring because I thought it was very funny

[hatties-self-hate-journey]

How posting to my blog feels like:

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[psalidodont]

i think i fucked up

[blessphemy]

if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didn’t biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis

which is to say. All of it is miraculous. and all of it is mundane. biology is Chaos vs. Order locking horns forever

[reg1ment]

i don’t even know how to render or color “properly” i take my brush and attempt some bullshiiiiit. and it works sometimes

[mousidy]

top 9 facts about yourself you probably already knew:

#9: on March 17th, 2026 you will bear witness to the mangled corpse of God

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

[all-the-good-usernames]

Oh boy todays the day!

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

[kedreeva]

I dunno about god but last night we definitely had a stand off to produce a mangled corpse one way or another

[seven-winged-liar]

everyone always surprised when you can learn bits of information about them from the characters they make... dearly beloved. you took a lump of clay with no form and shaped it with your hands and thought you wouldn't leave fingerprints? what hubris! you leave scraps of yourself in everything you make. sometimes it's a lot more than scraps but just for you i'll pretend i didn't notice

[adeercalleddoe]

Wake Me From My Slumber

I took a look at how squishy bean I usually draw AL-AN and decided to challenge myself on his details for this- assessment: very wrinkly, needs lotion

There is a gore version of this that I'm working on as well- I'll add it under a cut later on :3

[talonsin]

hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

[necromatador]

I can officially post these now!

The bookmark art I did for @dredgefanzine! You should look over that way for the downloadable ready-to-print files. They may eventually find their way to my Ko-Fi shop for download, but not for a while yet.

For now, the zine and all the merch and extras made by a bunch of talented artists are all free (with a donation to the NZ Whale & Dolphin Trust highly encouraged).

[kivinelock]

soon

[kivinelock]

whatever it was probably didn't happen

or i forgot

[juneebugs]

[pure-as-salt]

straight friend groups are like: *blonde girl* *chad* "*the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups are like: *younger van helsing* *army deserter* *shaking wet cat* *mommy issues* *inspector gadget* *blonde moment* *war crimes georg* *masc stephenie meyer* *the bat behind the slaughter* *missing person case* *college rat* *cursed dilf* *ancient diva* *ao3*