Roaches In My House

I draw stuff sometimes I have a Ko-Fi! https://ko-fi.com/twbugs Commissions Opening Soon…

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Henlo

trying to start sharing and posting again so where better to start than with who I am

My name is Rose or Roach or, well just about whatever I’ve used so many internet monikers over the years. Maybe we can be friends and draw together?

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I’m tired and don’t know what to write but I am doing Artfight attacks and I’m not going to let them like up so posting becomes overwhelming

So here’s a dumb of the three I have so far

And shes animated! That’s why I’ve been drawing slow cause that’s a lot of layers and shit

That and I’m struggling to figure out WHAT to draw. I have the who but the compositions are frying my itty bitty brain

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My first attack is up!

This is Muffin the Rabbit as owned by @potatothemouse

It’s based on an actual screenshot from Cookie Monster in Sesame Street. I tried to mimic the verb effect of it being in the show but I’m not sure I like it so here’s the clean version

Shes so cute! And I love Muppet characters I didn’t even think about muppet OCs being a thing until now 😅

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RIP Artfight 2026 lol. its ok, im in no hurry. i still gotta draw Idk if ill get anything drawn today anyway cause i gotta get diamonds cause my minecraft server has the enderdragon fight tonight and i want netherite armor goddamnit

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Artfight is tomorrow! I’m hoping I can keep up with what I wanna do, but we will see

My hitlist is still live and i don't plan on taking it down till July is over Maybe i should start a new one after and leave it live over the year to collect hits for next year

Roach's Hit list 2026

https://artfight.net/~russo4225 https://www.tumblr.com/blog/russo4225 https://bsky.app/profile/russo4225.bsky.social And on discord as r

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GUYS I HAVE A MASS ATTACK IDEA

ok so it would be in two parts Paart one would be a gorup of characters playing

Part 2 would be their player characters in the scene they are actively roleplaying

BUT what if, here me out, they aren like aus of the samne characetrs but liek some modern ocs playing as other peoples dnd ocs?

I need to start looking for the right themed characters if i wanna do this

(currently drawing this kinda scene with some of my own ocs but artfight is so close and I cant wait)

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Started making some cute emotes for my sona. Want to work on her pngtuber since I don’t have the skills to make a Vtuber or the money to buy one

I’m struggling to motivate even more than usual. Started a new anxiety med and it’s like sure it’s keeping the anxiety quiet but everything else is muffled too. I’m not tired but I’m too tired to want to do anything and I’m frustrated. I keep being told it’ll get better as I get used to it but I’m starting to understand the “it kills my spark” argument for a lot of these brain medicines

I hope this doesn’t ruin Artfight for me

I kinda wanna cry but I don’t even have the will to do that

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I should post soem character spotlights coming up to Artfight

Imma start with him

THIS IS TIM

He’s one of my oldest OCs still in rotation. He’s an American vampire hermit who finally recentered the world ij the 1950s hence the aesthetic choice

Now he’s a grumpy old vet with the body and mind if a young adult vut trauma of several generations

More detail is in his Artfight bio

You can find him here https://artfight.net/character/9080946.tim

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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Before pride month is over I want to share my Greek mythology inspired wives.

I had planned to do a whole series of flag drawings with more of my flag baring characters but got distracted by Artfight prep and depression 🤷‍♀️

Here are Aries and Dottie, based on the Greek gods Ares and Aphrodite and characters in a hero shooter style world I’m workong on.

They’re also up on my Artfight along with Aries twin sister Athena if u wanna draw some ladies 👀

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One thing i hate about artfight is all the "do you wanna be attacked? Drop your user below" posts because i understand the point and i love when people drop their users under my posts but when its my turn? nah man, i get psyched out. There's already so many names, and why would you pick my character? I don't want to overwhelm with en expectation of something you might feel like you have to do for me. I cant ask you to draw something for me even if there's no expectation to actually do it if It's too much

I keep seeing people post cool attack types on tiktok, pngtubers and crochet bags and muppet art and I just freeze

I have issues man

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Almost ready for Artfight!

5 new front characters for this year but im working on uploading more of my fankids!

If i have a fankid or other character you wanna draw but they arent uploaded pls lemme know and i'll get them posted, even if thats after artfight starts. Im still perfected character bios and new references

BUT I HAVE A HITLIST THIS YEAR

Roach's Hit list 2026

https://artfight.net/~russo4225 https://www.tumblr.com/blog/russo4225 https://bsky.app/profile/russo4225.bsky.social And on discord as r

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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I have discorvered how to make blinkies

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Anyone else doing Artfight this year? Idk if I’ll draw as much as last year but if you are feel free to hmu on there under the same user, russo4225

I have Gem and some of the others uploaded already but I should add the rest

You can drop your OCs here too if you want on my hit list. Idk how to make a form or anything so imma be informal with it

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Has anyone played the early access Paralives yet?

I got it yesterday and it’s like olaying sime for the first time ever again.

Olaying it was like the nostalgia of the sims without the baggage or the bugs or the microtransactions

My first household is my OCs for a webcomic I was wanting to make but need to actully draw. (Lore abd story is planned I just need to script and draw the first episode now but that’s the hard part lol)

Might share my screenshots and their life in game so far later today idk

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Sorry I’m still workong on fankids Wgeb I’m at work on my lunch but at home I’ve been trying my hand at new bead projects

I’ve been making jellyfish and I’m currebtly trying my hand at beaded keychains like sewn beads which is time consuming. And I made my first attempt way to big but that’s not stopping me

It’s really bad but im not giving up just cause straight lines are hard. The only way to get better is to fail repeatedly

I’m debating on trying to do simple bead portraits for Artfight this year but idk if I’ll be good enough by then to do it

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Full art

So funny story. This is from an actual convo in our Facebook group chat (cause they’re all old men in millennial bodies) where my brother sent an image of my two nieces that I used for reference

Day 6: Friendships

Riff took Bubba and Pepper to the park and they started a business lol

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My friend recommended I draw abd ultra sound but man I don’t want to only draw them as babies

Day 5: Heart Beats

So have disaster bi Gem instead. That causes heart beats right?

Based on this