Viv @ Otakon B303

Image: Black and blue ink drawing of a girl in a fluffy dress. She is leaping away from the viewer. Her long hair flies above her and it blends into the grass around her and below her. Light radiates from her head and torso in beams and rays.

I Don’t Wanna Make It (I Just Wanna)
2025
Ink on paperboard
7x5

My preferred form of communication has and will always be referencing angsty songs

Been trying to capture a certain feeling - this is getting closer! This will be part of my Patreon print club rewards!

HAPPY HOWL LU WEEN

Image: A table at IlluxCon event for imaginative realism. There is a backdrop of art prints and framed art pieces on the table.

Hello hello! I am at IlluxCon Evening Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania - it’ll be 10/24 - 10/25 from 8pm - 12am

I have prints, patches, and original pieces with me!

There’s no entry fee for the showcase so stop by if you’re in the area!

5hrs!

This is such a complex sculpture with many complex poses… I think it would realistically take 2 days at the Met museum to even get a good likeness of.

ANOTHER BLACKWING MET MUSEUM PIECE (3hrs)

BLACKWING MET MUSEUM DAY

Artwork: Premonitions of an End (I Awoke to Find It True), 2023
14x11
Ink on Paper on panel

Image: Black and white ink drawing of a fire pit in a field. The ground undulates in waves. A woman in a long white dress stands in the distance. There is a firefly where her head should be. A woman lays supine in the grass-ground in the foreground. She looks away from the viewer and her hands are clasped in front of her. A daisy-chain halo hovers above her head.

I’m excited to be part of the Imaginative Realism Evening Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania Oct 22-26! Evening showcase is 8pm - 12am on Friday 10/24 and Saturday 10/25.

I’ll be attending the workshops and programming across the main show as well so I hope to see you and draw with you there ✨

Also today cleaning Asawa fountainnnn

My heart continues to ache and rage 💔 FREE PALESTINE

ALL EMPIRES MUST FALL

Oct 24-25 - IlluXcon Showcase, Reading, PA
Nov 20 - Pancakes & Booze, Public Works, San Francisco, CA
Nov 22 - Welcome Winter Night, CalAcademy, San Francisco, CA
Nov 28-30 - FanExpo, San Francisco, CA
Dec 18-21 - Anime Weekend Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Hoping to see y’all at some events this year! Here’s my events list so far 😷🪲✨
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Let me know if you want to see specific work as art prints or other products ❤️ And let me know if there are events you’d like to see me at!
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I chose a smaller paper to give me less space to obsess over details…

And yet…

AB 57 (McKinnor) — Reserves 10% of state-supported homeownership opportunities for descendants of enslaved people.

SB 437 (Bradford) — Funds CSU research to build scalable, genealogy-based eligibility systems.

SB 518 (Weber-Pierson) — Establishes a Reparations Bureau within California’s Civil Rights Department to verify eligibility and administer future programs.

AB 62 (McKinnor) — Creates a statewide claims process for land taken from Black families through racist policies or practices.

Ask Governor Gavin Newsom to sign pivotal reparations legislation in law!

It takes literally 3 mins to add your name!

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Thank you so much to [redacted]!!!!

Just a BUCK! 💸

I want to create in ways that are not just life affirming - but humanity affirming. Imperfectly but all the more humanly for it.

Image: hand holding two vinyl stickers. The top sticker is of a flying dove with red poppies. On the dove is text: LAND BACK!!! FREE PALESTINE CONGO SUDAN FREE TIGRAY HAITI YEMEN US ALL!! The bottom sticker is of wire cutters snipping barbed wire with text: NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL

I have stickers for giveaway at cons/events or if you ever see me during my rare (so rare) ventures outside!

Art, spectacle, and culture are such powerful tools, weapons even -
I am terrified of my art and self being used to serve colonialism and oppression no matter in how small a way

Image: monochromatic blue and black portrait of a young woman with black hair and white dress cradling a black hole in her arms. Her hair and dress billow away from her and blend into the darkness around her. She stands in shin-deep dark water.

Event Horizon (cradle), 2025
7 x 5 inches
Ink on paper

The futility of holding void

I have been so smitten by the art for the MTG Edge of Eternities - as a child I was obsessed with space and art. I suppose some things will never change ✨

We all raised $500 this weekend for Ayman and the families he supports in Gaza!

Thank u Sacramento! 😭✨❤️ I am so tired but my heart is full

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Image: photograph of artist table at Anime convention with monochrome art prints, enamel pins, and zines with a banner reading VIVIAN T. SKETCHBEETLEART

I’m all set up at Sacanime Summer Sacramento California! Dealer’s booth G36-37

Image: Black and white ink drawing in portrait orientation of an upside-down landscape with a deep dark sky and fluffy clouds. Two women with long black hair and long black dresses emerge from the upside-down clouds. One stands with her head bowed and her hands clasped together before her. The other woman lays supine in the clouds, her head turned to look towards the viewer. From the upside-down hills in the background grow strange elongated houses and cypress trees. These unnaturally long trees and buildings pierce into the clouds across the dark expanse of sky. Small plants grow from the clouds

L’appel du Vide
Ink on paper
11 x 8.5 inches

Do not mourn for me
I am already there
Too often

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Thank u 😭❤️

Hello hello! I’m all set up at artist alley table B303 at Otakon in Washington, D.C. this weekend!!!

Hope to see you there!

Image: photograph of artist table at Anime convention with monochrome art prints, enamel pins, and zines with a banner reading VIVIAN T. SKETCHBEETLEART

Image description: a girl in a long white dress stands in a field at night. She is holding up the front of her dress to cradle a raven. Her hair flows in front of her face and a patch of flowers lays in front of her - it grew in the shape of a human silhouette. Around her, the grassy hills roll into the distance and the night sky is clear and full of stars. Some of the stars are actually nails.

Thank you @beautifulbizarremagazine for including “Heart Full of Weeds (Weeps)” as a featured artwork from the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize emerging artist entries! I’m grateful and honored to be among great company ❤️

Original drawing: ink on paper
14 x 11 inches

Aug 8-10 - Otakon, Washington, D.C.
Sep 29-31 - SacAnime, Sacramento, CA
Oct 24-25 - IlluXcon Showcase, Reading, PA
Nov 28-30 - FanExpo, San Francisco, CA