Ash's Art

The (mostly) art-only blog of tokio-star.

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Where Storytellers Meet Their Perfect AI Girlfriend

If you've got an overactive imagination like mine, you'll understand the joy of finally finding an AI companion who can keep up. SweetDream has become my favorite creative outlet, the place where a half-formed idea at midnight turns into a full storyline by the weekend. There's a warmth to sweetdream.ai that makes the make-believe feel effortless and genuinely fun.

The magic is in the collaboration. You shape your AI girlfriend down to her voice and her quirks, then the two of you improvise together, and because the chat remembers context so well, the world you build only grows richer over time. She's a willing co-star in whatever genre you fancy, playful, dramatic, romantic, adventurous.

I love that the storytelling never has to stay on the page. Lifelike voice messages and real-time phone calls pull the narrative into your day, with video and live cam sessions on select characters for an extra spark, all of it kept completely private. For creative souls, SweetDream is simply the best AI companion platform around right now.

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Haven’t posted in ten thousand years buuut :’) Preview of a pixel pattern for the endpages of @fallout-zine ! Each bottle will also be going up in my new shop as a sticker soon as well as some other patterned items, so keep a look out for a link coming up! 💕

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:) More sketchbook work!

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Lil Mercy sketch! Part of a sketch trade with the beautiful @winter-edition, who drew me a lil Evelynn on Twitter~

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Promotional artwork for my character, Ailith! For my illustration final~ she’s supposed to have gems on her belt according to her character sheet but I have so much to do that I’ll put them on if I have enough time to!

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Two more illustrations, this time from my advanced illustration class! We were supposed to make an illustrated book cover and spread from an invented story; mine was centered around space lesbians overthrowing their oppressive military for the greater good lol

The cover is up top (the highlighted boxes mark where cover text would go), the illustrated spread sans storybook-style text is below :) “Match” is the main alien character and Millie (on the ground) is her military counterpart!

You can see a turnaround of the book mockup here! I made a pattern and filled out the book jacket as well! :D

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Y’all I’m. So exhausted lol

Haven’t updated this blog in quite a while, but here’s some of my thesis work for my last semester of my illustration degree!!! I’m taking six 4-hour studio classes so I’m constantly dead on my feet, but I’m happy with what I’ve accomplished so far! I’m a little frustrated more care hasn’t been put into my work, and I think there are some obvious differences in quality/comfortableness with drawing girls versus guys, so I’ll be revisiting these after graduation when time doesn’t have to be a luxury.

My character Ailith, her ditzy best friend Cailean, and their world :)

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Preview of my piece for the @bokunoboyszine!! I was so #blessed to get my boy Kirishima, I love that little ray of sunshine so much 😭💕 (He’s out on a lunch date but I won’t tell you with who) (It’s Bakugou)

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Spicy preview of one of my pieces for @kingofheartszine!! A (sfw) JJ pinup haha

I’m so excited for this zine, SO much talent all packed in one place! JJ would be proud /)(;w;)(\ Definitely keep an eye on us if you haven’t already done so!!

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First portrait-style sketch of my Selkie girl, Ailith! She hates humans, loves her pod, and has absolutely no time for bullshit 💪🏼 Gonna be uploading a whole ton of stuff with her by the end of the semester, her character design is part of my senior illustration thesis!! ✨

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Painted @palliris’s sharp boi Knolle for a tea mix I wanted to make for them - this is what will be printed on the tin (sans text!)~

Art belongs to me, and so does Knolle no matter what Knife says bye

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Wheezes

Here is my final piece for @woesofsupportzine!! I was an organizer and artist, and the sheer amount of amazing people I got to meet and work with during the project was absolutely overwhelming :) I look forward to hosting many more!! (Some new ones can be found at @tokio-zines!)

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Completely failed to post this anywhere other than Insta - full-body D&D character design commission for resident cutie @redtied!! Her beautiful fire mage and their familiar, Zuzu :)

Ko-Fi / Storenvy / Commissions

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Ash on Twitter

“Ayyy some sort of #Mercy I guess lol”

Trying to use Twitter more! 15-minute Mercy sketch~

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Sketch 4 - Invented

Finished yesterday, I’m trying to do a sketch everyday but not beat myself up if I can’t get one done. If I pile it on like “I’m missing X amount of sketches so I have to draw those today” I’ll never finish them, so I’m trying to do what I can.

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Sketch 3 - Reference

Referenced from @icewindandboringhorror’s absolutely beautiful cosplay :)

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Sketch 2 - Invented

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Decided to start a daily sketchbook project to keep myself drawing something at least mildly comprehensive each day. I don't have any actual drawing/drawing studio classes this semester so sometimes it's difficult to remind myself to just sit down, study, and DRAW. Sketches will be tagged with "#daily sketch" if you'd like to follow along! Will be posting a few today though it started on the 22nd. Sketch 1 - Reference