Valen Larae

a cat with a very very saggy face looking miserable/tired/unimpressed next to a blue ball and a nice scratching post

a cat with a very very saggy face looking at the camera with an expression that can only read as “i may not want to die, that’s way too far, but i certainly would enjoy ceasing to exist for a little while before coming back to regular life with no consequences as a result of my absence”

how your email finds me

Artists feel pressured to make new art too quickly at the moment. Normalise artists fucking disappearing for months. Just walk off into the woods for a year and come back with a single sketch. It’s good for you

a digital painting of a night heron standing with "i'm about to crash the fuck out" in gothic pixel text beside them. it also has 2 stars on the top and bottom of the text

my child

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OH MY GOD
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Another trinket was left. They are now comrades. 🤝

I came in one morning to find a cute trinket left on my table. Duck has been guarding my table when I leave each day. We love Duck. ❤️

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Hehehe finally have this design as a button! You can grab one this weekend at #Soonercon!

I guess I won't be able to offer mini prints of my Isabelle piece anymore. In a chain of events, I deleted the file thinking I had a copy elsewhere and it was actually just a shortcut to the file I deleted. 🙃

An edit of the "Don't Make Me Tap The Sign" meme from The Simpsons saying "Corporations do not care about you and you should support independent queer artists and creators and give them your money instead of these companies who will end up fucking them over because they don't care about the LGBTQ+ community"

Pride Month starts tomorrow.

I'm going to post this once again.

Pope Popplio

meme of a man staring intently into his own eyes in the mirror, pointing at himself, like he's giving himself a peptalk, which is exactly what I'm doing here

"you can draw whatever you want to draw. it's fine. you're allowed. nobody thinks you're weird. people are here for the art. drawing whatever is fun for you is the privilege you are owed for being able to draw. it's fine. you are not a one-trick pony. god damn it."

small illustration of a girl holding a pencil with the text "support human artists"

Graças a Deus aquelas trend malditas não chegaram aqui

Have a picture of my cat Hazel with some geraniums I just planted. Have a lovely day!

Planet City Comic-Con photo dump

So many wonderful cosplays coming by at Planet City Comic Con 2025!

Who would be down for some Stardew Valley buttons? 👀

illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a kitchen scene with a woman in a chair slumped over a table in exhaustion. Two small goblins approach her curiously.

burned out.

ai art is like being a runner and youre excited for a marathon and youre training and then someone comes up and says 'why not use this new 'car tech' it can drive you to the finish line and youll have run the marathon without that pesky running'. then theyre confused when you say no and run instead

Remembering Edward Gorey on his birthday

Pink text reads: Carmine's "Bring Ash Home She's Stranded Nine Hours Away And I'm Freaking Out, Man" December Sketchathon! It is overlayed over photos of Carmine and her girlfriend.

Text explaining the situation and how you can help.

Text explaining the Sketchathon.

Example sketches.

It's crisis time again ✨

My girlfriend's transmission blew while on the interstate nine hours away. It's thousands of USD to replace. I'm gonna sketch your OCs every day of December to raise funds until she's home. ✨

It'll be fun.
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Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics

Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

A picture of me holding the MORPHO Anatomy for Artists book about Fat and Skin Folds.

Go buy this book immediately. It’s fantastic.

Sometimes the sky is the perfect color of blue. It really is a damn shame I can't spend all day just admiring the sky.

2024 and painted another pumpkin for Halloween!