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Spider monkey?

left! cuz it feels like that's where the mouth is

It’s finally the 24th for me (if it’s not for you, kill yourself :3)

So it’s club penguin’s 20th anniversary today, so to celebrate, I made a background inspired by the style 🐧
Club Penguin was big apart of my childhood and sad it’s been 8 years since the shutdown :(
#clubpenguin

Unironically, get some of those fancy-looking metal garden tag stakes and label everything. Makes you feel like an arboretum, and makes people think twice about removing stuff - worked for me in the past!

Tomorrow/Friday OCT 17th @7pm PDT I'll be #streaming #SpooktoberVNJam entries Houndwife & Midnight Oil! Houndwife writer/director @ocreatus.bsky.social and their team will be joining us after, and we'll talk with @thatbfein.bsky.social (and company) after Midnight Oil!

I hope you will join us!

Looking gorgeous! Can't wait to see next year's crop 🎃

‼️Old Man Announcement‼️

More #SpooktoberVNJam! You can hear me as the voice of Liam in "Midnight Oil"! This game is hauntingly beautiful in every way, and I HIGHLY suggest checking it out at itch.io/jam/spooktob...

Thanks so much to @krhodesva.bsky.social & @thatbfein.bsky.social for having me on!

My most perfectly rendered background art, no crashes, definitely definitely, just a normal cafe

Budweiser clydesdale umamusume should, after a long day hauling

This is what cemented Professor Layton as a series of all time for me, the cutscenes in the ds game were just so Charming

A black and white comic. A young witch is hard at work in her garden. "Boss?" she intones to an older witch behind her. "Problem?" the older witch responds. "Yeah," the young witch replies. The young witch pulls out a mandragora root that appears to be surly. Instead of screaming, it grunts. "Weird, right?" says the young witch to her mentor. "Mhmm," the older witch grunts, in agreement.

Sometimes a mandragora root just has bad vibes. New public post up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/mandra...

Oh wow! I loved the demo during spooktober, so excited to see you all keeping it up!

Illustration of multiple small thrips and other bugs, including a velvet worm, aphids, and leafhoppers

Older pen-an-ink illustration I did for the Mushrooms & Magic rulebook, a post-apocalyptic #mushroomfolk #monsteroftheweek system where you can get little buggy buddies..... sorting through old art and was really pleased by how these came out! 🍄

Available at featherboy.itch.io/mushrooms-an...

On that creep.... on that weirdo 🎶

At first I thought we were talking Tiny Planets bing & bong before the vid loaded, but this is Very Good

the last two creatures on this planet

A visual novel screenshot, showing a crow homunculus in a cut paper style sitting at the bottom of a street lamp.

Classical-style science illustration of a hoatzin bird and its chicks, climbing in a tree

Illustration of two fairies with firefly wings, doling out soup from a witch-cauldron fungus

An artfight illustration of a DnD character, a warrior woman with wings and a sword

#portfolioday ! I'm a illustrator who works in science illustration, visual novels, ttRPG characters, and #kidslit , and am always happy to discuss projects 💖

Check out more links in the bio, or more of the VN games I've worked on at featherboy.itch.io

Was reminded of Baba is You, which then reminded me of the fanart I drew of it way back: "Baba in Captivity"

Thank you!! 🥰

Genderbent designs of the Saja Boys from the film "KPop Demon Hunters"

Hopping on the #kpopdemonhunters train! ✨️ Been seeing lots of genderbent designs for huntrix, but saja boys not so many.... and so, we fix that. 🫡

Will I draw more of them? No, probably not

I'm doing artfight this year! Don't know how many I'll get through, but if you want something drawn by more, or to see more of my oc's, find me over there! Lots of spooktober VN characters, but not entirely!

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossils

Omg, thank you so much - it truly means a ton!!!
I want to be better at revisiting characters this year, and they've been on the mind.

I so rarely do comics, but I always love messing around with panel & bubble borders when I do - happy to hear it landed!

A comic of a ghost girl and a witch sitting in the rain. The witch asks if the ghost ever misses feeling the rain. The ghost, Hyssop, replies "eh. it's not so bad," as drop fall through her.

A comic of a ghost girl and a witch sitting in the rain. The ghost stretches out a leg, letting the raindrops pass through as she says "I can stay out in a storm as long as I want and I don't get any colder than I am. But I can't be warmed either. And I miss the massage of it all. I liked when I had skin and hair and stuff." "But no laundry," the witch replies. "The no laundry is nice," the ghost agrees.

#makeaterriblecomicday2025 with some more of the A Witch is Getting Married crew .... there's nothing so humbling as having to draw a character twice 🫠

The game is still free on featherboy.itch.io/a-witch-is-getting-married ), but wanted to explore them again before plopping them in #artfight2025 !

hand petting, or a dog with looooong whiskers on its nose

omg wiwaxia hi wiwaxia

Your characters have a soft, almost lovingly-scarecrow -like proportion to them! It makes everything tinged somewhere between Raggedy Ann and the old Wizard of Oz illustrations, in the best possible way

Screenshot from a visual novel, titled Trashwing Crowchild. A homumculus, made of a fledgling crow skeleton and bits of trash, sits at the base of a streetpole near a dumpster.

Trashwing Crowchild is another, shorter, halloween-y visual novel following an accidental homunculus figuring out what it means to be alive, and also how to get back to their nest - with some help from the high school across the way. featherboy.itch.io/trashwing-cr...

Screenshot of a visual novel, titled A Witch is Getting Married. A witch dressed in green and purple grumpily leans on a wall. A purple ghost, named Hyssop speaks, saying "Oh dear, that does sound bad"

A Witch is Getting Married is a short visual novel delving into witches' weird ambiguous relationship woes, friendship, jealousy, and belonging! featherboy.itch.io/a-witch-is-g...