Naomi María

Creative cryptid in advertising with six printing presses in her living room. Posts sporadically. See more at naomari.com.

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Go for a walk and try to compare all the dice with any pen you find. This thought exercise will calm you.

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Soooooooo I rebooted my old Twitter bot that has been dead since 2023 when the API changed and I abandoned the dumpsterfire that site became.

Yes it's a bot. But no it's not a slop bot. Instead it's a silly little toy that uses a script that uses a bunch of words I threw together in different buckets so it madlibs its way into a post based on some preset patterns.

The new one is @auspiciousitems on Tumblr, but I'm also running it on BlueSky with the same handle. I've lost the tab somewhere in a million windows, but you can find it somewhere on git. Original bot ran on Cheap Bots Done Quick which also died along with the API 3 years ago, buuuut you can see a Wayback Machine snapshot of the old grammar here. (PS thanks  Kate Compton and v buckenham for making the original one possible.)

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I have fully embraced Richmond as home and naturally one must draw opossums.

A handful of the (mostly encouraging) 'possums I've made for the finance bro of my heart.

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This is from July??? But feels relevant again since Q4 chaos is in full swing at work.

Anyway another ideaworm that I had to make. A little bit of Adobe Illustrator and stock, including grabbing a static image of this 3D render of the this is fine dog made by cuervo94 thrown into After Effects

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Sometimes you just gotta make the idea in your head to get it out.

Made with stock video and photo from pexels and audio track from pixabay, not generated :)

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Idk if anyone else likes to see color coded After Effects or Premiere screenshots, but here you go hahah.

Anyway this was the first time I did perspective and warp for a curved surface and it's not the worst. I'll get better at at. Maybe next time I should make a gridded image to distort and then just replace the footage with the actual thing???

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Any guesses on what the monthly streaming subscription cost will be after Netflix, HBO Max, and Warner Bros merge into one blob?

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Sometimes you just gotta make the idea in your head to get it out.

Made with stock video and photo from pexels and audio track from pixabay, not generated :)

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🔈 sound on plz

While browsing Codepen for CSS animations and effects inspo for a project, I saw a 3D button thing and I couldn't help myself... 

🔗 My pen for the Butter Button.

And this was me riffing off the CSS 3D Button pen by Mirza.

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Designed a really useful calendar today

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Animated the lettering from my previous post. 

This was an afterthought in Photoshop rather than in Procreate, but whatever! Trying to compress this was awful, hah. 

I’m uploading it to my GIPHY account, so you should be able to share it through there too!

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Happy Valentine's Day tumblr. You look cute today.

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Hands hands hands. We all know I like drawing hands. :)

This was going to start as a quick morning sketch, but turned into a bit more of a study. Not really a fully polished thing.

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Working on some stickers and motion things for a friend's comedy show in PNW.

Posted on @giphy, buuuut I guess my transparent margin might be a little too thin and now it has to go through human review as a sticker. :(

Anyway you can find it here: https://giphy.com/gifs/illustration-anonymous-stranger-MeIn1KDfJAyV357VgH

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Long time no see. Work has been busy, but I've still been making stuff. Threads became the place to talk at the void because I gave up on Twitter.

Now I'm working on a new portfolio and website (fixing my old one) and then once that's done, I'll pull content from Twitter and put it on my site so I can purge that account.

Website is pain, but fun to implement the new visual identity I worked on over the summer. Made a few GIFs for it and maybe I'll make more. Tryna make sure whoever whoever wants to hire me knows I'm a lil' weird.

Anyway, I'll work on sharing what I've been up to and maybe I should move to having posts from IG get sent to here. idk. idk.

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And speaking of Threads. Here’s a very important hotdog cat I drew on my phone in response to a Tumblr prompt.

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There was some meme on Threads where you stick your bio into Midjourney, DALL•E, etc and post the results. It took generating over 40 images to get a few that were sort of close, so I drew something more accurate.

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Contemplating making this more than just an art and illustration blog again and have it be more hobby and maybe life stuff too. So here's me trying on my Halloween costume now that the last part arrived in the mail.

What am I? Me but dead hahah.

(If you don't know me I'm normally far more colorful.)

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Self-portrait illustration that the sketches I posted before were for.

This will be a part of a series of portraits of people I knew just being themselves.

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A special little something for a special big someone made on my smaller Line-O-Scribe. I didn't have quite enough of the font to do the whole thing in one go, so I had to set type for one half, print that, and then print the other half. Worked out well enough!

Copy is abridged lyrics from the song Bedroom Eyes by The Knocks.

I also sewed a little envelope out of mulberry paper: