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@localcryptidart.bsky.social

Digital character artist specializing in varying degrees of anthro and furry, mostly posts ocs and fanart They/them 27 🚫no ai🚫no nft🚫 Localcryptidsteg on tumblr Local_cryptid_art on Instagram Localcryptidart on Cara Art feed: https://tinyurl.com/wd8az275

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Black and white comic about a crow on the beach. Text as follows:

He stopped and flicked his gaze back to me. Eyes adjusting, scanning again as he tapped his beak in little clicks like gears whirring, thinking. 
Halting, grinding, in a voiceless voice that had not been exercised in many an age, he replied. [I have never once wished to be anything except more of that I am.]

Black and white comic about a crow on the beach. Text as follows: He stopped and flicked his gaze back to me. Eyes adjusting, scanning again as he tapped his beak in little clicks like gears whirring, thinking. Halting, grinding, in a voiceless voice that had not been exercised in many an age, he replied. [I have never once wished to be anything except more of that I am.]

Page 3/? sea of glass

28.02.2026 19:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

That James Webb Telescope Discoveries oage is, in fact, an ai shill. Block 'em.

28.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Teeny tiny dergs

I am enamored of monster hunter-ified Malroth, there will be more

Big angry frog/gator thing my beloveddddd

#sketchie #stegdraws #traditionalart #fanart #malroth

28.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And doubly so, younger artists, especially kids, dont always know that ettiquite. If its a genuine mistake theres no reason to send the damn hounds after them, just have a discussion in dms, explain why its a problem, and leave it be. We do not have to publicly execute people for every minor crime

27.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well and moreover... tracing IS a legitimate learning technique... if done right.
Claiming a one-to-one copy of someone elses work is a clown-ass move, but tracing poses rather than full work for your own benefit is fine if you keep it to yourself. It builds muscle memory

27.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which is impressive considering I lurk on here more than anything and am bad at social media

26.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

40 followers away from 500

26.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Id rather see a creator excited about a project than hear nothing about it until its dumped unceremoniously online to no fanfare whatsover. Gotta be passionate to recieve passion back!

26.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Horrendously exhausted tonight so here's a reminder you can support the process of my comic through Kofi or PayPal and make it so that I can work from home instead of a job that puts a huge damper on my ability to work on commissions and the comic

ko-fi.com/gearpunk/tiers

26.02.2026 02:48 — 👍 21    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 0
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Derggggg
#malroth #fanart #digitalart #stegdraws

26.02.2026 04:21 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

These clowns make learning to draw hostile for younger artists and are shocked when they just stop trying and turn to ai like babe youre the biggest chunk of the problem! Be so for real!

26.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dude I fucking hate twitter/toktok artists that got booted to tumblr Im so not even joking. Tf do you mean youre bitching about someone drawing a character in a similar pose to one you posted? Get a lifeeeeee

26.02.2026 02:24 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

STREAMING YOU SAY??? 👀👀👀

24.02.2026 01:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kelly is working on a really really cool project!!! I have no idea how one even goes about writing a play!

24.02.2026 01:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

PLEASE consider helping Nya and their mom, they do not deserve this.

23.02.2026 21:00 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Whats even crazier is it pretty explicitly *shouldnt* (if a womans dress makes you sin put out your own eyes before you bug her) but no one actually reads the book because Christianity ALSO actively pushes the narrative that its a hard book to read, so it makes it easy to manipulate the church

23.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You ever have one of those art blocks where if you were given a prompt you could draw it just fine but you brain is refusing to come up with something to draw on its own?
But you still really really want to draw?

Thats me thats where im sitting rn

23.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also all prior iterations of these characters would eat these versions alive, sorry not sorry

98 Millie could take 25/26 Knives out no diff

22.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Overall. It feels a lot more shallow than the manga or the original run of the anime were, especially when you get characters who WILDLY break character but can't stick to it, subjects being given more gravity than they had but at half the runtime they had, and quiet parts being said out loud.

22.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pros: Knives is present from go

Cons: Knives is present from go, which gives you time to get used to his shit

Theres a ton more but thats all spoiler territory, so.

22.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pros: Legato has been cranked up to 800

Cons: hes still being underutilized and we havent seen his backstory yet so theres potential to ruin it

Pros: Meryl and Millie make more sense starting off as reporters tbh

Cons: we dont get to see Millie at all until Stargaze

22.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pros: most villains get left alive as per what Vash would want

Cons: that takes some wind out of his sails though now doesnt it

Pros: Wolfwood is played as the straight man in the group which is an interesting take

Cons: ... right up until he becomes the slapstick comic relief

22.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In regards to Stargaze (I really like Stampede quite a bit but honestly the back half of this reboot has no idea what it wants to be and I have some fairly large concerns)

How. How do you make a reboot that is both slightly better in most regards but STAGGERINGLY worse in the ways that matter most

22.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

That's it, i'm drawing today and whatever comes out comes out. I'm losing my mind like this.

21.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot of some goods from my shop.

Screenshot of some goods from my shop.

Bills have been extra high thanks to winter weather and gluten free food keeps getting more expensive, on top of fighting my entire nervous system over the past two months; I've been struggling.

Give my Kofi shop and comms a look if you're interested, it can help me a lot. ❤️

ko-fi.com/delsharkart

21.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 88    🔁 102    💬 1    📌 0

Shoutout to my fiance who may just have usurped the phrase "I want that twink obliterated" with "I want to make him squirm like a weasel in macaroni"

21.02.2026 03:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pretty dragon

21.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Scritches

20.02.2026 23:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

QUICKLY HIDE UNDER A TABLE SO YOU CANNOT BE PERCIEVED

20.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Michigan vote sticker spotted

18.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0