summer is very slow where I work so I spend my spare time drawing. I started with the dragon in the mug so I would have an easy answer to "what are you drawing?" the dolphin is my half of an art trade with a coworker. it's done with only red and blue .7 mechanical pencil, which exists!?

I spend a lot of time playing Fish! in VRChat, so I spend a lot of time staring at the world thumbnail as it loads in. The most recent two are definitely edited gen.AI, which is incredibly disappointing. They got weird details and broken lines, and I don't like looking at them. #vrchat #vrchatfish

I’ve enjoyed the small break in bad news for a wholesome animal meme and drew local cryptid Jimothy in my spare time at work. (unfortunately, also I spilled water all over it)

I’ve become a cuffed-sleeve flannel person (just in time for summer)

happy 23rd birthday to my favorite neopet!

in this house we have the phrase "wind waker-ass fuck" to describe any character who is designed with a normal to large sized upper body, with tiny little legs (like pretty much everyone in the legend of zelda: wind waker)

the gelert model is finally starting to look like it's supposed to! today I did UV maps, which means I can start playing with colors.

I went to get a coffee today and the barista was wearing a metal band t-shirt I couldn't read the logo of, while I was also wearing a metal band t-shirt that they probably couldn't read the logo of. we nodded in music preference solidarity as they handed off my latte. good human interaction!

Praedius is turning 23 next week so I am making him new art (he is thrilled)

gelert progress! I can't put this guy up for download with the pepsi logo on him so he'll just be public in the neopia central vrchat world when he's done (basic colored ones will find their way to gumroad at some point) all my gelert OCs have five fingers so this one does too, sorry

dressed like I was heading to a metal concert but was actually just going to pick up my meds and grab a coffee. got a compliment on my outfit inside the medical center by a person who was radiating good vibes and wearing rainbow leopard print. it's a good day (happy pride month)

workin on this guy in the pepsi gelert colors (heck yeah you bet he'll have a toggleable collar)

I'm throwing in the towel after an hour an a half of just trying to complete ONE game of Attack on Altador. it has reset itself several rounds into every single game I attempt, while I'm sitting with folded hands watching it crawl at a snail's pace. these achievements are otherwise so EASY UGH

every year I consider art fight and every year I am reminded that I have never made a ref sheet for any of my characters, ever

"arttimo, what's your favorite neopet?" you ask. "it's acara" I answer, over my digital workbench full of gelerts.

I work with 18-20 year olds and today was June 7th, so happy 67 day to those who celebrate

I staked out a high vantage point to watch some cool light shows at furality's club FYNN until way too late last night. #furality

it’s that time again! 🧄

When I joined neopets in 2003, the first pet name I tried to create was “Shadow,” which was of course taken. Finally, two decades later, Shadow finally exists! Good of him to finally show up, just in time for pride month. yes good another gelert OC to rotate endlessly in my head

yesterday I was antsy that furality hadn't released a con badge asset, so I started making my own. a few hours in, I found that they actually HAD released official badges, and I had missed the post while at work. oops! today I started filling in the badge ribbons.

pride month is soon and I wanna see your gayest neopet (this is mine)

I sent in a ticket after sending a neocash item to the wrong person, and not only was the response super fast despite it being after midnight, but this extra little note really made my day!! :3 (I should probably make more comics lol)

in case you ever had doubts, I have not, and will not, ever use ai in any of my art-making processes!

My anti-man-talking-to-me outfit didn’t work on an older gentleman at the bus stop who looked at my spiked collar, knee high Chucks, and shirt emblazoned with “DEAD INSIDE” and decided to ask if I was in theater because I was dressed “Shakespearean.” chat, I was baffled

I have *loved* playing phone tag with the stroke clinic these last few weeks, but I grow weary of not knowing if the busted artery in my neck is still busted (I assume it is because it still hurts)

upset that the joints of my hands hurt today, the supposed day of Good Joints (happy birthday, stoners)

the fog in the spooky area of Neopia Central VRChat has been textureless, a broken sheet of white, for five? months? but nobody told me u_u anyway it took longer for my PC to open unity than it took to fix the issue, so it's fixed now!

it’s bbno$ time

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! My new band Field Of Embers has released their first single. Please go check it out! fieldofembers.bandcamp.com/track/harm-n... We will be going into the studio tomorrow and Monday to work on a few more songs so that we can release our first EP. OMG! I'm so stoked!

Harm None, by Field of Embers

track by Field of Embers

fieldofembers.bandcamp.com

if you’re selling neopets stuff at Sakuracon this weekend, please do let me know 👀