maki

22 • art blog • she/her • queer, i don't use labels • commission info • carrd

[ljesak]

hello! made a new account, hopefully a fresh start after 5 years.

I'm a hobbyist, queer artist from Serbia majoring in software engineering! I'm not too into that so I spend a lot of my time indulging my actual passions. I enjoy art, philosophy, essayistic writing, narrative-driven video games and biology.

🌲 I love portraying characters and atmosphere in my work, impressions of what I experience being my main inspiration (and music).

🌲 I draw what I like, even though a lot of my art is anthropomorphic characters, I occasionally dabble into horror or humanoid art, there are no rules really.

🌲 I'm super into light and color theory in particular and how to preserve energy and liveliness in a still picture, I go for expressiveness above all.

🌲 my ocs that i love!!! (adrianne and laurie are my main muses atm):

https://toyhou.se/ljesak/characters

🌲 i open comms sporadically, message me in case of interest!

🌲 I'm not that active in fandoms, but I do consider myself a furry. My other fandoms include fallout, warrior cats, and elder scrolls, but I don't create as much related art as I'd like (except for wc art, I often feel compelled to draw battle cats!!!).

🌲 Some of my fav video games are: disco elysium, fallout nv, what remains of edith finch, SOMA, fran bow, beginner's guide, skyrim and more

🌲 i apologise if i sound too serious in general, it's just kinda how i talk by default as i like to be exact with my language/expression, at least until i know someone 😭

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some pride doodles

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I'm not sure why I didn't realise this before but if I completely burn out from commissions, it's not going to be from daily drawing, it's gonna be from constant client and time managment. I'd always tell myself I'm "immune" to this because "I like to draw!" and yeah while that's true, I'm getting increasingly tired from near constant communication and updates I try to keep up with. I feel like imma crash eventually

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i have open slots for almost anything at the moment but i cannot take many! if you're interested, feel free to message me here or request on vgen!

ljesak (@ljesak)

Check out ljesak's commissions and portfolio! | 🌲maki 🌲she/her, queer, 22 🌲anthro/varied artist, software engineering student ...

[ljesak]

i consider my art ''lesbian'' but adrianne is pansexual technically so im sure some people would take offence to that. i just don't wanna get into any identity politics arguments because i don't care about labels. im a woman, i like women and i draw women who like women. dont care about anything more specific than that

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pride month coming up and im struggling with labels again. i like women but i also like them in a completely person-specific way so it's impossible to think about attraction until there's someone specific. my gender expression is also too neutral to be notable or ''proud of''. i just sorta exist

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it just feels like there's a certain gender expression and/or behaviour expectation for basically every single label and it immediately turns me off. i never felt like my attraction made me part of any communities, it feels too personal i guess, except something vague like ''queer''

[ljesak]

pride month coming up and im struggling with labels again. i like women but i also like them in a completely person-specific way so it's impossible to think about attraction until there's someone specific. my gender expression is also too neutral to be notable or ''proud of''. i just sorta exist

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i watched the backrooms movie and ive never seen a more 50/50 percent of good and bad movie that it equals to 0. First half was really good and then it got progressively worse with the monsters and The Goverment plot to the point that it shat all over itself. Maddening experience, i also wish we actually saw more rooms instead of just the yellow one. I think the original scribble monster looks silly but id have preferred it over "the evil other you" we got

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i just can't believe how it went from really good uncanny feeling horror to Goverment Set Cameras In The Other Dimension Actually and they sorta chill there to do research.

[ljesak]

i watched the backrooms movie and ive never seen a more 50/50 percent of good and bad movie that it equals to 0. First half was really good and then it got progressively worse with the monsters and The Goverment plot to the point that it shat all over itself. Maddening experience, i also wish we actually saw more rooms instead of just the yellow one. I think the original scribble monster looks silly but id have preferred it over "the evil other you" we got

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btw warrior cats design requests are always open! I love getting to draw a kitty 🐈

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Hihi! Wondering if ( you have reqs open idk ) you could draw Snowtuft? ( dark forest)

also do you have art fight?

one of the worst wasted potential characters 😭 i do have art fight! my username is ljesak

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you have one type of annoying "omg why do so many furries have boring Dog fursonas?? Where are all the unique species??" and then you see someone actl. have an unconventional animal as a sona and the other type shows up questioning The Logistics of it with inane questions