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Sometimes I post art. Mostly I'm just lame. Adult

[mintmoth]

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Hey! I'm Vell, a nonbinary disabled artist, occasional writer, and professional disaster 💫 (I do also have a carrd)

I'm a fan of Pokemon, Naruto, Twisted Wonderland, Danganronpa, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy 15, horror media in general, and a lot of other stuff tbh

I tend to draw silly doodles and comics more than anything, but really just whatever I feel in the mood for. My art is all tagged with doodle as the art tag! Also I'm cool with my art being used as icons and such, as long as credit is posted somewhere!

Find me on twitter as VisceraKing or on bluesky as MintMoth where I'm a bit more chatty

Check out my kofi account (I do thank you doodles for $15+)

Also hit up my redbubble or teepublic for stickers, shirts, and some other cool stuff

[mintmoth]

Also hiiiii new icon, having some fun

One day I'll do art streams with this weirdo but until then they're just like a sona or something idk I'm having fun drawing them and that's all that matters rn lmao

[toasst753]

Vent art

[mintmoth]

You know what, why NOT draw some of my Tomodachi life shenanigans lmao

But also Jamil WAIT-

[thoselethalarts]

Attempts to break out of my art block by harassing Ace

[mintmoth]

Working retail has caused a malevolence to build a nest within me that would never have found a home within me at birth

[mintmoth]

So the way I did his hair is actually like really easy cuz I kinda phoned it in lmao

So I have the long bang and this ponytail option for him

But here's the part I drew specifically for his braids!

Since his hair is black I just used the starting black in this size and made a chain of little circles with them

Then with the smallest blendy brush I used a dark grey for the highlights, which are just little v's

Here's me drawing one by itself so you can see how it's just a little v

The hair decorations are just me using the circle tool in a golden yellow then adding a line of lighter yellow highlight, and the space between the braids to show his scalp is just the skin tone I selected in a really thin triangle (tbh I need to maybe draw over the existing one cuz they're inconsistent but whatever)

But yeah! That's how I did his hair, hopefully this can help!

[mintmoth]

Your honor they're just a little stupid

[sweeteastart]

To celebrate the first year of it, here's a cosplay I did of witch Namimé !!

The design was made by @mintmoth and I managed to finish it for a convention that took place in my town !

[mintmoth]

YESSS!! I'm so BEYOND excited that you've posted these because this turned out so cute and just GORGEOUS 😭😭😭😭 it was so cool seeing updates on you making this and it's still such an honor to see this design made real

Honestly I feel like I'm being a bit much but I'm also still so amazed by this 😭😭

[mintmoth]

I came across this again and honestly I'm just still so blown away by the fact that something I drew inspired such an awesome cosplay 🩷🩷🩷

[mintmoth]

Just like real life..

[mintmoth]

APPLINNNNNNN APPLIN MY BABBYYYYYYY POKEMON WHERE IS MY FLAPPLE PLUSH YOU TEAR APART MY FAMILYYYY😭😭😭😭

NO FORREAL oh my god the entire line is SO INCREDIBLY CUTE definitely one of my top fave Pokemon lines, I just got so incredibly endeared to them all 😭😭😭 absolute sweeties

And I admit I have a weakness for appletun specifically AUAUAGGH

But you're so right come on you gotta have the whole family YOU GOTTA

[s-nnoh]

someone made a website where you can declare your favorite pokemon & why. let's all see if every pokemon is someone's favorite... Together

[mintmoth]

So uh, Hatsune Miku may have made me really mad

And she may have Kept commiting crimes so she's in jail now

[mintmoth]

Sorry all I've got is more Tomodachi life bs LMAAOO but hey here's some stuff I've made

Tbh I've just been having fun using the stamps more than anything lately

[mintmoth]

i offer you low-res boar, enjoy

DBDBSISNSK I have no idea why I have received this gift but I will gladly accept every pixel

[puppyfawnn]

guzma doodle but I still can’t get him right

i always struggle with character likeness i’m kms

[thoselethalarts]

So @artfight staff have decided to make the worst decision possible to amend their new rules, and needless to say I'm Very Annoyed about it. Not only is it extremely out of touch, but it's impossible to enforce and I'd even go so far as to say it'd detrimental to game's longevity in general.

I don't think I have to explain to ya'll just how tone deaf this rule is, but I'll do it anyway. With this rule in place, you can't use ANY visual references for poses and anatomy. At all. Even if you make the pose yourself with a program like DesignDoll, even if you take the photo yourself, even if you use a public domain model image, all of it is now "against the rules". All of it. Period. What this says to me is that you use any anatomy or pose references at all, then by AF's standards you are now cheating.

Internet oldies might remember this kind of discourse from circa 2005 on DeviantART. This idea that you can't use bases or photographs (INCLUDING ONES YOU TOOK YOURSELF!!!) for references (even if you're NOT tracing them!!!!) is not only backwards, but extremely out of touch with the process involved in making fine art of any quality.

I could go on, but I found some commentary from a fellow bsky artist (i dunno if you wanna be tagged on here) that sums up the rest of my thoughts pretty nicely:

In short, I hope you reconsider this rule @artfight. Not only does it feel extremely it of touch considering what Art Fight is, but I find that this rule will only serve to alienate people, drive active player count down, and will be completely unenforceable at best. The only way someone would be able to know if someone is using a photograph reference or 3D model reference is if A) they snitched on themself, which they most likely will not do, or B) someone baselessly accused them of using one, which can be used to falsely report other users and cause infighting of untold degrees between users.

And I will say, on my own accord, I don't have a problem with abstaining from playing just because of how tasteless this decision is. I work myself to the bone every year trying to meet AF's strict one month deadline while juggling my day job and family matters, and I have zero qualms of putting an end to my multi-year streak of participation. Others likely feel the very same way. Once again, I hope you reconsider this rule and how you all look at AF from a player perspective, because as it is right now this is outrageous.