Aru

@oystarru.bsky.social

no stronger ally to my mental health than my wifi router called gondor giving up while i’m doomscrolling reels to kick me out of my chair rohan answering her pre-made plans and crawling into the shower ig

chat i joked about co-opting conservative fashion aesthetics from the 1920s to larp as old money but why am i in a christian art era of my life right now the spirit of michaelangelo has touched me?? is this how i satirise orientalism that has haunted me at my whole chinese time of life?

instead of paying exorbitant sums for a hallucinated app to teach me language i might just force myself to only read fanfic in foreign languages from now on

my secret artist lore is that instagram has typecast me as a thearcana artist and blows up my arcana posts but i’m not making fanart for this anymore

the eldritch desire to make snide comments online not today, satan! I believe all people are capable of change, even if that’s entropy and becoming worm food which is great for the environment some are bent on destroying!

In September my good friend @oystarru.bsky.social bought me a book to start drawing consistently. Yesterday I finally finished it and decided to redraw my first piece I did in it. I’m proud of my progress and and I’m so thankful to all who have supported me on my art journey it means so much! #art

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been catching up with #VoxMachina season 2 and thought it would be funny to try drawing my party in show’s art style hehe please don’t @ the lighting and colour in my version i approached this with the whimsy of a child using MS paint for the first time lol

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I finally put up all the art i’ve stashed away since the move; hopefully enough to do psychic damage to anyone walking in who isnt aligned with my my creative energy (including myself when I should be drawing more) 🤞

also kind of realising my instinctual feelings about something as woman of colour were shouted down doesn’t mean i was wrong and it’s making me reevaluate every way i feel about representations of women and sexuality in modern media

honestly I forget to sign my stuff these days and that’s on keeping my artistic spaces safe for myself I’m always amazed at how much more dimension and viewing direction i can convey in a sketch when I’m not thinking about the render. Doesn’t he seem taller in the ink drawing?

painted render of sketch, male figure facing left is backlit with soft evening glow on a deep lavender background. He has blond hair cropped at the sides and a red beard, and his green shirt carries hints of gold thread. Small braids adorn his beard and longer hair on the top of his head, tied back in a small bun.lineart sketch in fountain pen of a beared norman man with shaved sides and a topknot (atypical normal hairstyle)

thought i’d share a progress picture of this random prompt i did a modern au design with fungus wearing a sunhat and a camisole, but for some reason we all collectively remembered it as a sundress so, here it is!

young chinese man with hair in a ponytail and thin beard looks off to the horizon while leaning on an unfinished balcony. blue, indistinguishable sea from sky contrasts the pale lemon yellow of his sundress, a garment of instinct glamour, almost ball gown, as the artist has not yet decided how to render it except with a faint smattering of purple flowers