Derg with a Blerg

✨ 20 something ✨ they/them ✨ Boyliker ✨ VTuber https://youtube.com/@Furbisms

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WHY AM I POSTING JIMMY NEUTRON HOT TAKES AT FIVE AM

[liebelesbe]

june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!

[liebelesbe]

let's all be disabled this month... together 🤝

[liebelesbe]

if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.

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[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

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Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

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birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

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A comic about cavemen.

[lubluues]

thought your design was really fun @mothemulator - hope you like this! :0)

[lubluues]

thought your design was really fun @mothemulator - hope you like this! :0)

[washipink]

I bet you thought I was done with Rider Op edits... hahah WRONG!

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i just realised that with this new laptop ive lost all my reaction images

[wretchedbitch]

I save all my reaction images on a flashdrive just for these reasons 

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noone cares

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[animelionessmika]

^what artistic growth feels like

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Bear on Bear Action

Beatbreak was SOOOOOO good this week.

Ko-Fi here, commissions are open :D

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[hit-buck-with-a-car]

thank GOD goncharov happened before ai bullshit took over

[silenthillmutual]

i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue

[silenthillmutual]

it isnt actually good or normal to have moral dilemmas every day about which posts you reblog. it isn't actually good or normal to check and recheck every message you send "just in case" you sent porn instead of a 'hi how are you'. it isn't actually good or normal to believe that your day will only go well if you have a specific keychain or whatever with you. like i'm not going to diagnose you but i do think some of you need to look into obsessive-compulsive disorder beyond "ha ha funny man wash his hands" portrayals.

[kitten-karnage]

please help me get my boyfriend out of an abusive home

hello , i'm here on behalf of my boyfriend @deaddovedandelion , e-begging with the hope that i can help it get out of the shitty situation its in. i know its going to make its own post , but i'm hoping double the posts means double the traction .

the long and short of it is that it is in a terrible household and is suffering with mental disabilities and chronic fatigue that makes it difficult for it to work consistently , and on top of that the job market is fucked anyway so its practically impossible to even get a job in the first place. the ideal is to be able to get it over to my state so that it can come live here with us and finally be in a better , safer environment where it doesn't have to struggle so much. i want to be able to help more , but the distance makes it hard combined with severe disability and burnout that results in my struggling to work much. i don't make enough money to help quickly or easily , so i am turning to here. it severely hurts me to see it suffer , and it would be really great if we could get it to my state so it no longer has to .

for each donation , i will do either traditional doodles or small canvas pixel brush doodles of an oc or a blorbo or whatever your heart desires ! the doodles will not be insanely high effort , but i promise they'll be cute ! i can draw anything including furries and mecha :) just dm me here with proof of donation and let me know what you want and i'll do it !

^ art examples of the styles of doodles i'd be doing for donations ^

cashapp: $kittenkarnage

venmo: @kittenkarnage

paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/soffblossoms

i am setting a tentative goal of $2500 ! this is subject to change but seems ok for now .

please reblog if you can't donate !

EDIT: it made its gofundme , please check this out !!

Donate to Help Dandelion Move to a Safe and Loving Home, organized by Leah Simpkins

Hello! I'm Dandelion, a genderqueer bisexual that is mentally disabled and… Leah Simpkins needs your support for Help Dandelion Move to a Sa

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Pongorma's Last Stand