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thank youuu!!

oh also never said anything here but I got one offer so far, waiting on some more from 2 different places but yea definitely got a place at art uni & will be doing that next year onwards!!

if anyone wants to help you can (ko-fi.com/ares_xix - no pressure tho) but yeah I wanna finish what I've got and then take fast artistic license sketches for a minute so if you like those I should have some available soon

I'm gonna be like £200 short this month, it's a struggle cause recent depressive episode + arthritis worsening pretty much puts a stop to me being able to take more work in either day job or art. I'm starting to do better so who knows if I finish my other work I might be able to take some comms

This Is some art I’ve made for Decomposer, a graphic novel written by Mason McDonald. The book is well on it’s way to being finished but we’ve set up a Kickstarter to help us complete it. I’d really appreciate if you’d have a look at the page (link below) and consider helping us out. Thanks!

it's meant to make it worse it's all good fhfhfhf

at the risk of inviting the public's wrath I will disclose that I put the goop on one half of the bread and fold it in half and eat it that way like a cursed sausage roll

the crowds demand my unholy union with wheat and sugar products and I must oblige!!

the whole nutella and bread economy of the UK would crumble 😔

like, slices. not loaves. 50 likes and I'll eat 4 full loaves (JOKE POST. JOKE POST)

lukan's been concerned about my depression related lack of eating so today I have eaten four entire nutella breads 😤 doing my part

I'm feeling somewhat better or at least work capable so I'll be back to art tomorrow 🧡 the horrors persist but so do i

I'm sure if their ideal world view came to fruition where it's just like 6 jkrowlings on earth they'd be pulling each others hair out anyway instead of rejoicing or some shit

despite the chromosome printed shitter shutter and the testosterone-detecting automated drain hole defense system it seems the problems persist. curious. who could have thought

"if I put the little sign on the door and make it REALLY ILLEGAL to enter, of course this means nobody ever will. this is why nobody historically has, either, and this became a problem magically by itself without any law-un-abiding citizens targeting women ever, anyway"

obviously I know why people do these things it's just ironic to never have seen one explanation on their side with maybe a sniff of statistics or reasoning as to what exactly this will prevent and in what numbers. what results these goals will bring that justify the money and the time

I mean beyond even arguing who's biologically what (< ridiculous, no such thing, doesn't matter) it's pretty telling that the press just uncritically accepts the idea of corralling women's spaces as some sort of plausible means to harm reduction

Final blood eel concepts for the film Iron Lung I had the opportunity to work on! She's such a beast and I absolutely adore her! I will be posting much more in the near future!

#ironlung

I have a kofi here ko-fi.com/ares_xix but please don't feel pressured 😭😭 everything should be covered until next paycheck, it's just food money for the next week and a half I'm dire on

A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))

and there's a few things I've done but can't post yet! but will be cool when I can post em :^) that's all

I'm working on art also I'm just slowww and I'm currently super critical of everything I do pfpfpf so it takes extra effort to get to the point where I'm like "yea this is good enough to send"

sorry for being absent I'm in a big bad mental health loop (mostly about not making enough money for bills but also being in a weird period waiting to find out if I got into uni or not so I can't quite look for jobs until I know) but also yeah getting more disabled by the day and my joints hurty

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA was a new type of personal project for me that I'm still very fond of. You can read it for free in this thread:
bsky.app/profile/oliv...

or pick up the PDF here:
oliveoilcorp.itch.io/ballad-for-b...

Here’s some sketches exploring one of my ideas for the creature from “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, and how I imagined it could work as a supernatural element while still able to be mistaken for a polar bear at a glance or in the distance~

had fun painting some Twin Peaks to end the year with :') #twinpeaksfanart

A portrait of a musclebound dark-skinned woman with closely cropped hair. Her skin has a subtle pallor with bluish extremities, and faint blue veins show through the skin. She is wearing a criss-cross patterned sleeveless black bodysuit that rises up the neck, arm wraps that descent from the upper biceps, and a small hourglass chained across her chest.

Tewano "Teo", callsign DARKSTAR, Stygos Grammaton Monk and errant Brightstar clone

(many apologies and much love to @exaltxix.bsky.social whose original portrait for Kiriona was the base for this)

been having a loathsome health week, I'm sitting on some sketches i should be ready to send out tomorrow 😔🙏

I'm a bit stuck on this sketch so I'm gonna return to the old methods (copying a layer and warping the crap out of it to see if I can find some angles that interest me)