ValMonstera

Formally ValJaylee ☆ Call me Val. [they/them]. ☆ Slowly catching up on posting old art. ☆ Commissions OPEN ☆ My Carrd ☆ Twitter ☆ Twitch ☆

[valmonstera]

INCOMING FUNDRAISER MARATHON!

@lusterlazuli and I are going to be streaming all through next week to raise money for my upcoming hip surgery! The marathon is from September 8th to September 15th! (We will be continuing to fundraise after the marathon ends, though!)

SURGERY: For those unaware, I need hip surgery due to hip dysplasia, femoral anteversion, and labral tears. My hip surgery is on November 12! So our fundraising efforts will continue until Nov 11! We are fundraising for medical expenses and for living expenses while I'm out of work recovering!

INCENTIVES: We have already raised some money pre-marathon and hit a bunch of our incentives! OUR TOTAL AT TIME OF THIS POSTING IS ACTUALLY $565. Come by and help us get to the top! (P.S. We have a lot of stretch goal incentives not pictured for if we get past $4K! These may or may not include a souls-like playthrough!)

REDEEMS: Donate an amount on our redeems lists to make something interesting happen on stream! Note: best done while the corresponding streamer is live! For example, donating $15 while I'm live will make me spin the Wheel of Pain! There's a chance for me to have to eat a raw grape tomato. Or put on wet socks. Disgusting. I will scream. You should totally do it.

PRIZES: Our top donors will get special prizes, all hand-drawn by yours truly! If we reach the goal of $4K, our top donor will be the winner of a custom Live2D model!! We will determine prize winners NOT at the end of the marathon, but at the end of our whole fundraising effort, which will be November 11. Prizes are transferrable!

DONATE: We are currently taking donations through my Ko-fi! But once Tiltify's personal fundraiser tools are available on September 10th, we plan to switch over to that instead!

THANK YOU FOR READING! We can't wait to see you guys there!!

MY CHANNEL || LAZ'S CHANNEL

[seven-winged-liar]

now more than ever, it is imperative that you spend time with people you love and doing things that you love. be prepared but please please please don't dwell on things that have yet to happen. you have to have hope for a better future in order to build one. it's gonna be okay. we're gonna make it. i love you.

[artistakai]

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[valmonstera]

INCOMING FUNDRAISER MARATHON!

@lusterlazuli and I are going to be streaming all through next week to raise money for my upcoming hip surgery! The marathon is from September 8th to September 15th! (We will be continuing to fundraise after the marathon ends, though!)

SURGERY: For those unaware, I need hip surgery due to hip dysplasia, femoral anteversion, and labral tears. My hip surgery is on November 12! So our fundraising efforts will continue until Nov 11! We are fundraising for medical expenses and for living expenses while I'm out of work recovering!

INCENTIVES: We have already raised some money pre-marathon and hit a bunch of our incentives! OUR TOTAL AT TIME OF THIS POSTING IS ACTUALLY $565. Come by and help us get to the top! (P.S. We have a lot of stretch goal incentives not pictured for if we get past $4K! These may or may not include a souls-like playthrough!)

REDEEMS: Donate an amount on our redeems lists to make something interesting happen on stream! Note: best done while the corresponding streamer is live! For example, donating $15 while I'm live will make me spin the Wheel of Pain! There's a chance for me to have to eat a raw grape tomato. Or put on wet socks. Disgusting. I will scream. You should totally do it.

PRIZES: Our top donors will get special prizes, all hand-drawn by yours truly! If we reach the goal of $4K, our top donor will be the winner of a custom Live2D model!! We will determine prize winners NOT at the end of the marathon, but at the end of our whole fundraising effort, which will be November 11. Prizes are transferrable!

DONATE: We are currently taking donations through my Ko-fi! But once Tiltify's personal fundraiser tools are available on September 10th, we plan to switch over to that instead!

THANK YOU FOR READING! We can't wait to see you guys there!!

MY CHANNEL || LAZ'S CHANNEL

[valmonstera]

INCOMING FUNDRAISER MARATHON!

@lusterlazuli and I are going to be streaming all through next week to raise money for my upcoming hip surgery! The marathon is from September 8th to September 15th! (We will be continuing to fundraise after the marathon ends, though!)

SURGERY: For those unaware, I need hip surgery due to hip dysplasia, femoral anteversion, and labral tears. My hip surgery is on November 12! So our fundraising efforts will continue until Nov 11! We are fundraising for medical expenses and for living expenses while I'm out of work recovering!

INCENTIVES: We have already raised some money pre-marathon and hit a bunch of our incentives! OUR TOTAL AT TIME OF THIS POSTING IS ACTUALLY $565. Come by and help us get to the top! (P.S. We have a lot of stretch goal incentives not pictured for if we get past $4K! These may or may not include a souls-like playthrough!)

REDEEMS: Donate an amount on our redeems lists to make something interesting happen on stream! Note: best done while the corresponding streamer is live! For example, donating $15 while I'm live will make me spin the Wheel of Pain! There's a chance for me to have to eat a raw grape tomato. Or put on wet socks. Disgusting. I will scream. You should totally do it.

PRIZES: Our top donors will get special prizes, all hand-drawn by yours truly! If we reach the goal of $4K, our top donor will be the winner of a custom Live2D model!! We will determine prize winners NOT at the end of the marathon, but at the end of our whole fundraising effort, which will be November 11. Prizes are transferrable!

DONATE: We are currently taking donations through my Ko-fi! But once Tiltify's personal fundraiser tools are available on September 10th, we plan to switch over to that instead!

THANK YOU FOR READING! We can't wait to see you guys there!!

MY CHANNEL || LAZ'S CHANNEL

[valmonstera]

Here's a WIP of Laz's next PNG+Tuber model! Only the top third of it tho! If you wanna see more of it, stop by my stream today! I'll be working on this more live in 4 hours. 😎 get the full secret sneak peek!! https://twitch.tv/valmonstera

[valmonstera]

VAL IS COMING BACK!!

I am planning to start streaming again this weekend! Sunday afternoon to be a little more precise. I rebuilt my OBS overlays from scratch and will be trying new mic settings so it might be a little wonky to start lol. Will be doing an art stream! 😎 I have an almost-secret project for Laz I've been trying to work on when I have the ability. If I don't finish it during this week (likely), this will be what I work on during Sunday strem! Otherwise I'll probably strem the process of planning new assets for my own channel 🤠

Also! I set up Streamerbot so we'll be taking it for a test drive on Sunday as well!

ALSO also! My affiliate-versary is 6/9 (nice) which is literally NEXT Sunday and I have no idea what to do for it! Feel free to shoot me ideas here or when you see me live this weekend lol

I intend to be more active online and post art more often. I want to get back into drawing for myself and for others. I also want to get back into being more social and visiting my friends' streams more often. I dont have solid goals for posting frequency or how often to draw but I will be thinking about them this week. See you guys Sunday! <3 http://twitch.tv/valmonstera

[valmonstera]

Hi howdy hello! My name is Val and I stream and make art! Find me in all these places! - Carrd: http://valmonstera.carrd.co - Twitch: http://twitch.tv/valmonstera - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/valmonstera.bsky.social - Twitter: http://twitter.com/valmonstera And my commissions are open on Ko-fi! http://ko-fi.com/valmonstera/commissions

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[tofupixel]

MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

[forcekenobi]

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

[forcekenobi]

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

[hyperchaotix]

[icarus-suraki]

[splatoonlink]

HELP i was watching off the hook perform and the angle i was at makes it look like pearl is being repeatedly set on fire 😭

[sunnyirry]

Pinterest got her oh noes....

[beam-of-sunlightbb-deactivated2]

Displaced children have been forced to seek makeshift shelter in chicken coops after their tents succumbed to flooding. This tragic reality evokes painful echoes of history, reminiscent of the deplorable conditions endured by Jews during the Holocaust, confined to horse stalls and sleeping on wooden shelves never intended for humans.

The phrase “never again” lost its meaning shortly after World War II, as the world witnesses a disturbing repetition of past atrocities. Despite solemn vows, the world’s involvement in supplying arms only exacerbates the suffering of the oppressed. It serves as a stark reminder that complacency and inaction pave the way for history to repeat itself.

[boimann]

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

[aci25]

Oakland, California

[titsay]

[spideyyeet]

Please do your research! There is so much misinformation out there and a lot of lies.

Everyone should know the truth so please try to know as much as you can so you can spread awareness and help!

Free Palestine🇵🇸✌️