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2 years

Tiger, Tiger A battle won; a war lost Pencil and detail shots in attached tweet. Prints and tapestries available in the shop.

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“They should vote, not riot.” Voting: slow, unreliable, rigged as shit Protesting / rioting, in 2 weeks: Minneapolis possibly disbanding police, multiple cops charged/fired, cases being reopened, racist monuments removed, etc How many lives could we save?

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Made a character chart since I always want them to be absurdly extensive. Blank and examples:

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"Design error" Sir, have you SEEN the rest of our shop?

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And an OTP chart because why not. Blank and examples:

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Hey! I’m Shy, a line-focussed illustrator and storytelling-hopeful. I primarily draw, though will often collaborate with my husband @CoeyKuhn on full-colour pieces. I’m most active on and here on Twitter 🖤 #VisibleWomen

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Three Swords Full final and detail. Pencil, Photoshop.

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6 years

They’re done! It took 3 weeks but at least they’re up for beggars night 🎃🖤 I’m so happy with the cast shadows, I was hoping they’d do that!!!

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Well, I made a picrew. It took nearly 4 months, but without @CoeyKuhn assisting with the grunt work, it would have easily taken me over a year. 🍏 Thin edition: 🍑 Chubby edition: Please @ me with your creations! I want to see 🖤

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5 years

This is incredibly difficult for me, but I need help. I'm a self-employed artist who's fought a losing battle with depression for over a decade. I'm at my limit and need help affording the next level of treatment. GoFundMe: Shop:

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Hey, I'm Shy. I'm a line-focused illustrator & hopeful storyteller, currently bouncing between developing new treatments in my illustration and a couple long-term narrative projects. 🖤 Support my work: 🖤 Art tweets:

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Tender Rot Full final & details. Prints/tapestries available in the sh•p. Progress shots posted on Patre•n.

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6 years

#OFF ’s 10th anniversary was a couple months ago. Rewatching let’s plays rekindled my admiration for this absurdly elegant game. Thank you, Mortis Ghost, for sharing it with us 🖤 #OFFgame

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4 years

A couple new sets of pins, inspired by an occulty story of mine and @CoeyKuhn 's 🖤 Available here:

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5 years

✏️🖤 Sketchbooks are in! ✏️🖤 After debuting these at Gen Con, I'm excited to finally offer them publicly! These sketchbooks were a long time in the making, but came out exactly how I'd hoped. Full details on the listing!

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Old Ways. Tapestry based on a folk horror story I have with @CoeyKuhn Variants and details attached. Prints, tapestries, etc. available -

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7 years

Right-Hand Path, collaboration with @CoeyKuhn ! Second in a pair of #witch -y illustrations I’ve collaborated on with Coey ♥ I did the drawing, Coey painted, both did touchup, as usual Left-Hand Path piece: Prints available:

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7 years

Left-Hand Path, collaboration with @CoeyKuhn ! 1 of 2 #occult -y themed illustrations I have planned with Co. Happy #Halloween !! 🔮🦇💀🎃

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Hi! I'm a line-focussed illustrator, hoping to make a living with art & storytelling! ✨ ✨

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6 years

New "Dusk" pins based on a couple older concept-characters of mine! 🌞 🌜 Hard enamel, two fasteners on each. Special inverted gold variants will be available only for a limited time!

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4 years

god forbid some artists live above the poverty line enough to afford (checks list) plants and ikea furniture

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5 years

Hello #PortfolioDay I’m Shy. I make macabre/occult illustrations and write stories 🖤 Raw drawings in the next tweet! 👇

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4 years

Past 6 months, I've weathered some of the worst mental conditions yet in my life. This drawing has been a particular casualty of that turmoil. It's a relief, finally making more conscious progress on it, even if briefly. Full preview on Patreon shortly ✏️

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Tender Perfidy. Pencil, PhotoShop. Drawn be me, painted by @CoeyKuhn Shot of the linework: Prints (available once shop's back open):

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4 years

Preview of a new drawing I've been working on the last few weeks. Full preview on Patreon: --

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Left-Hand Path, collaboration with @CoeyKuhn ! 1 of 2 #occult -y themed illustrations I have planned with Co. Happy #Halloween !! 🔮🦇💀🎃

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2 years

Rot Pins Fig & Pomegranate 3-dimensional pins Available through

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The full final of "Belladonna", collaborative piece between myself and @CoeyKuhn . Drawn by me, painted by Coey. Prints: Get exclusive previews of new stuff I'm working on for $1 on my Patreon!

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Here's examples of my illustrative work. Prints available in the shop for those interested. Even if you're not in a position to donate or purchase, just sharing (the main tweet) is highly appreciated. Thank you ♥ GoFundMe: Shop:

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I'd wanted to make an OT3 as part of this set originally but ran out of steam. @HHYMENOPTERA made a great arrangement for OT3's using the OTP one I made, and was kind enough to share it with me 🤍 Blank and examples:

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6 years

Any idiot who insists suffering is needed to facilitate great or “real” art is either not an artist or has never really struggled. Struggle often informs art, but artists rarely make that art in the midst of suffering. Suggesting that’s how “real” art works is severely damaging.

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2 years

Small preview of the pencils for an in-progress piece. Full previews on Patreon.

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6 years

As someone who’s often asked by young artists about art school I want to really highlight this. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 AI has been a scam for over a decade, here’s info and ideas on what you can try to do if you’ve beenare being screwed over by them:

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2 years

If you enjoy my work, I'd really appreciate it if you took a few minutes to read this. I'm in need of some help and unfortunately don't have much of a choice but turning to the internet to get it. Thanks for your time.

Asking for help | Shy Custis

Get more from Shy Custis on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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4 years

can you pinpoint the exact moment of horrified fascination that sparked your entire interest in gore and it's thematic uses? because i sure can.

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2 years

I’m queer, and you couldn’t rip the word even from my cold, dead hands

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4 years

This happened over a month ago but it still a common joke around the house. Anyway come get your own titty wolf mom pin:

CoeyAndShy - Etsy

Shop Coey & Shy by CoeyAndShy located in Columbus, Ohio. Smooth shipping! Has a history of shipping on time with tracking. Speedy replies! Has a history of replying to messages quickly. Rave reviews!...

www.etsy.com

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4 years

As an autistic person I would just like to say: Empathy is learned. It’s a perception skill that can be developed. If I could develop this level of empathy with the disadvantage I have, most these ‘all lives/blue lives’ etc. white people can too. They just choose not to.

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7 years

New pinned tweet! I'm a line-focussed illustrator & hopeful storyteller, currently attempting to refocus on my work. If you enjoy my stuff, please consider throwing me a buck on Patreon if you're able! ✨ ✨

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5 years

New specialty items are in production * u * $1 Patreon subscribers got a full preview a couple days ago, and will get first dibs when they're released! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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7 years

✨🌙 Collaborated with @CoeyKuhn on some occulty Witch pins! 🌙✨ Preorders live: 🌙✨ #witch #witchy #occult #pins

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Harpy Pencil, PhotoShop Drawn be me, painted by @CoeyKuhn Detail & linework shots: Prints (available once shop's back open): As always, Patreon subscribers got previews of this in-progress for just $1!

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6 years

any given RP partner: so i had an idea for a really terrible thing to do to this character me:

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5 years

@CoeyKuhn Going ahead and attaching the linework ✏️🖤

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7 years

Monster Girl Gang pins & keychains!! Trying to get enough to make both, plz check it out! RTs would be appreciated♥♥

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5 years

"Family." Pencil and PhotoShop. Thanks to @CoeyKuhn for helping out my lacking painting skills, as always 🖤

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4 years

(Nervous laughter)

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6 years

Posted another progress shot yesterday on Patreon ✨

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2 years

my husband secretly commissioned a prop sword of avowal from DS3 as a valentine's gift and presented it by making me close my eyes, putting it in my hand, then laying at my feet with a towel over his face lmao

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6 years

A few decent studies from the last couple weeks 🖤

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6 years

Are you fucking kidding me.

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@MonsterPageant I'm Shy, a line-focussed illustrator and storytelling-hopeful. My work focuses on the macabre and occult 🖤

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6 years

Working on a new illustration 💀🖤 More previews and updates on Patreon:

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6 years

I just really like lines ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #artvsartist

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HEY TWITTER I’m looking for some new enamel pins :) Reply with photos and links to your pins, or the pins of artists you like! (Feel free to RT and spread the list around) 📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌

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3 years

We're getting low on the hardcover versions of my gold-stamped sketchbooks, and I doubt they'll be restocked anytime soon. Now's the time to grab one! (The gold softcovers will be in regular stock for a while!)

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7 years

The witch pins I collaborated on w/ @coeykuhn are in! The manufacturer made a mistake on all the Eikthyrns, but they're replacing them 💦

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7 years

🌈 RAINBOW PINS!! 🌈 Our supplier now offers rainbow plating, so I made some "galaxy/celestial animals" to try out some rainbow pins!! On preorder here!: 👇 Sample photo in follow-up tweet! 👇 #unicorn #rabbit #pinhell #furryart #furry #pins

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4 years

Non-black online shop owners: If you’re able, please consider closing your shop for a week or two and encourage your customers to donate to bailout funds, mutual aids, or support Black-owned businesses instead.

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e... even disregarding the white supremacist aspect, do people seriously, unironically, think this is a film about female empowerment???

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eric andre voice do u think dani midsommar effectively utilized girl power by succumbing to a white supremacist cult

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1 year

Finally finished this drawing, hope to have a full final before much longer. Full preview available on my p @atreon .

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5 years

Early access to this collaboration with @CoeyKuhn is up on Patreon! My linework for this piece is also being made into a specialty merch item which will be revealed and available on Patreon first!

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Wowwie masculinity really is fragile if me ordering a spicier temp than you at a hot chicken place compels you to revise your order to be hotter Have fun with with your butt later

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And some of my merch items. Even if you're not in a position to donate or order anything, just sharing (the main tweet) is highly appreciated. Thank you ♥ GoFundMe: Shop:

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(thread cont!) My work tends to involve macabre or occult themes, with metaphorical handling of the characters and dynamics involved. 🖤 Support my work: 🖤 Art tweets:

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I'm a line-focussed illustrator & hopeful storyteller, currently working to finish a long term writing project and retool how I finalise illustrations. Most active on and here on Twitter!

Get more from Shy Custis on Patreon

creating Illustrations & Stories

www.patreon.com

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I’m pretty unapologetic about existing in public as a fat girl as it is but whenever I get an unusual level of weird looks it only makes me more defiant about it Look at me! Smiling and enjoying my time out! Holding my loving husband’s hand! Fuck you! 🖤

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4 years

Sigh. I was dumb and forgot to watermark the web images for my newest pins and there's a (really bad) rip of one on AliExpress. If you have an AliExpress account and a second to file a report for me, that'd be great. (Instructions to follow) Thanks @buboplague for the heads up

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I'm a line-focussed illustrator & hopeful storyteller, currently working to finish a long term writing project and retool how I finalise illustrations. Most active on and here on Twitter! #VisibleWomen

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A handful of recent portraits of the characters from my and @CoeyKuhn 's witchy occult RP ✨ Witchy forest lesbians and the boys 🖤

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Collab between @CoeyKuhn and me! I drew, he coloured. #Overwatch #symmetra (I love Symmetra too much)

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5 years

House is a mess, but at least I got most the Halloween stuff up in time to enjoy it for a couple weeks 🎃✨

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2 years

Popping my head out of social media hiatus to yet again ask that you give small businesses way more leniency and time to resolve any issues with your order than you would a big corporation, especially when the shop is on break specifically siting how swamped with work they are 🙃

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Detail previews

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5 years

Someone please start planning my funeral now because this has killed me

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✏️ Small preview Full WiP on P*treon:

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“Sometimes a family is 3 vaginas and a beard.” My trans husband, talking about our household.

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OH BOY! as if it wasn't fun enough dealing with those few customers who get mad at me that USPS messed up their delivery, now there's a few who are belligerently refusing to believe it when i explain the current situation with the USPS

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@OhHeyMonsterBoy @CoeyKuhn We completely overlooked it in the sketch, inks, pin mocks, manufacturer's sample, and final product photos!! Oopsie!

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2 years

Raw pencils, colour variants.

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5 years

Nervous robot Shy is all set up at the @Gen_Con art show! Table 81 ✨

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5 years

It’s my birthday 🎉 💀 It would mean a ton to me if anyone able would throw a few bucks toward my treatment. I’m really grateful for all the support it’s gotten already but there’s still quite a ways to go

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5 years

This is incredibly difficult for me, but I need help. I'm a self-employed artist who's fought a losing battle with depression for over a decade. I'm at my limit and need help affording the next level of treatment. GoFundMe: Shop:

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One of my biggest feats of strength has been remaining friendly through the hundreds of times men at conventions have assumed the macabre/gory art on our table must be my husband’s work instead of mine

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Larger preview

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7 years

True to my style, here's some fan art that's a couple years out of relevance ✨ Drawing from a couple years ago, finally finalised March 2018. Pencil drawing, finished in PhotoShop. #Overthegardenwall #otgw

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If you've been wanting to get something from our shop, now would be a great time! I had to back out of Gencon for health reasons so we're running a sale to try and compensate for the gap in our income. Use SUMMER15 to get 15% off through 8/14 at Thanks!

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6 years

My sweet, loving cat dooming me to sit on the toilet forever by curling up in my pants lmao.....

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2 years

as both cis person whose spouse came out as trans after already being together for years and just a human-fucking-being, i'd like to publicly say a big fuck you to the author of that guardian article which i refuse to give another pageview in order to learn the name of.

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'Boohoo, whats the point of being a cop if I can't kill people with impunity."

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Colorado to strip its police force of qualified immunity: Countless officers discussing resigning.

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laying awake thinking abt how autistic girls are drastically under-diagnosed b/c of bonkers social expectations shoved down our throats, resulting in a lot of struggling in isolation until we're finally diagnosed at 27, way after the resulting complexes could've been circumvented

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The only part of the of this generational discourse that offends me is being part of a group everyone apparently associated heavily with Harry Potter.

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9 years

Cat update

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Hey so. If you're buying form a small business-- especially small-time creators --please message them before leaving negative reviews. *Especially* if you've ordered before with satisfaction, and/or they have overall great feedback. Chances are something can be worked out.

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Black & gold versions of the Belladonna and Harpy sketchbooks are now available for preorder in softcover! There are still a small supply of the hardcovers in stock and ready to ship, as well! —

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This is going to be the updates thread related to this fundraiser. It feels like I've exhausted the ways to openly talk about this after the last 10+ years, but it'd be remiss to not address it myself when so many have already been so generous.

Help Shy Stay Medicated and Access Healthcare, organized by Shy Custis

Hi, I’m Gretchen and I’m writing here on behalf of my dear friend Shy Custis.… Shy Custis needs your support for Help Shy Stay Medicated and Access Healthcare

www.gofundme.com

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Here's a photo of the sample from our manufacturer! I'll be posting more photos when I actually have them in hand <3 Preorders: I'll also have these at @FurryWeekendAtl in a couple weeks! #unicorn #rabbit #pinhell #furryart #furry #fwa2018 #pins

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More previews of stuff I've got goin on on Patreon! Patreon will also get eary access to a specialty merch item I'm hoping to release soon! $1 gets full access ✨

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My main focus artistically is linework! It’s the most important part for me ✏️ #PortfolioDay

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media companies have been releasing stuff early or for free to accommodate people's sanity while quarantined and i would like to petition nintendo give us animal crossing immediately so i can quarantine my brain from the depressing internet.

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