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Dream Ghost

More wavy wiggly lines to sooth the my mind.

Inspired by the SF bay fog that washes over the landscape like waves in the night. I want to grow wings and surf the wind. I want to be a dream ghost.

Download the attachment for a timelapse. The full hours long video will be DMed on August 5th along with the HD image and PSD file!

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Work in Progress

Still in the mood for wiggly lines. I've been spending the remaining days in California saying goodbye to the San Francisco fog. There's just something so magical about the fog rolling in like waves over the city lights.

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Swept Away

It's been so stressful preparing the move from California to Sweden. Most days I only want to let my mind go blank and draw calming nature. But I'm very excited to explore Europe! I love the architecture in Stockholm and hope to incorporate some of that in my future artworks :)

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Work in progress

Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy

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Paved with Love

Happy Pride month!

I spent a long time thinking about what to paint for this year until I saw a photo of flagstones covered in chalk art of various rainbows. It made me realize that the path to equality and a better tomorrow is paved slowly, step by step, and with love.

sketches~



2025-06-29 02:47:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Caged Scales

Or maybe Uncaged Scales?

For the next painting this series, I want to explore releasing doves from the cage dress or maybe a wolf~

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Work in progress

Continuing the cage dress series, now featuring snek!

I always start with a 3D model of the cage in Sketchup before drawing in the rest.

The more I thought about the theme, the more I wanted to explore ideas of the animals escaping from the cages. For the next one in the series, I want to have the woman opening the cage door for the wolf the escape ;)

The existing 2 paintings

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The Root of Magic

Who else is reading Witch Hat Atelier and stricken with despair over the latest chapters 😭 Poor Qifrey, he can never catch a break 😭😭😭

I can't wait until the anime comes out so I can cry all over again. But until then, here's a fanart~

Sketch below~ Download the attachment for a quick time lapse. The full video, HD image and PSD file will be DMed on July 5th

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Inner Rage

Because we can't always let it out, so it just grows and grows

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Work in Progress

Had this idea for a while now about bottled up emotions. Excited to finally work on it!

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Wing Eared Foxes

Continuing the wing eared series! These are so fun and I get to look up cute animals making silly faces as reference photos :D

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Space Cake

A continuation of my cake series :D The inspiration for these always come when I least expect it and I never know when the next idea will appear lol

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2025-05-24 01:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Wing Eared Tigers

I had so much fun painting the winged eared cats that I painted some big cats too~ I might paint foxes and wolves next :D

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Caged Fangs

It feels so good to finish a proper drawing at last. Life has been crazy hectic with plans to move from California to Sweden. I'm excited for Europe but also sad to leave the US that has been my home for decades. It's been an emotional rollercoaster everyday as I fill out paperwork for my immigration and look for a new house and everything else involved in uplifting my whole life. Only drawing feels grounding, like no matter where I am or will be going, painting brings me home to my mind. I h...

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Work In Progress

Part 2 of my cage dress series~

I've been super busy flying to DC for an immigration interview and haven't had much time to draw. But I'm to announce that I passed the test and will be moving to Sweden in the near future! It's sad to say goodbye to California but I'm also excited for the new adventures in Europe :)

Now that the interview is out of the way, I can get back to more drawings again too. Hope to share the finished piece soon!

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Water Necklace

Been kinda stressed lately about an upcoming flight and interview, so I haven't been able to concentrate enough to draw anything complicated ;_; Hopefully I'll be able to draw without worry soon.

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My Moon and My Star

It's been nothing but catching up on emails since I got back, so I've been dreaming of last week when Luna and Nova were splashing on the beach.

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The Happy Mermaid

I just got back from a short vacation with my SO's family. We roadtripped along the California coast and saw so many harbor seals. They're especially funny when they poke their head out of the water. Sailors used to believe the seals were mermaids and I can't help but draw it out hahaha

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Red Crowned Flight

Switching it up from the more complicated paintings with something simple and relaxing~

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Atlas Botanicus

Finally finished this one! The majority of the time spent was on the individual flowers for each feather/page of the wings. I really love the look of old botanical books with the water color paintings and the scientific names written in cursive. So I spent way too many hours painting out 20 of these flower pages, and even then, it wasn't enough for the wings so I did have to duplicate some.

Here are the 20 flowers! I had a blast and might paint more flower studies in the future~ The HD...

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Work in Progress

I had idea for my Wings of Pages series, where instead of text, it's a book full of botanical illustrations. It's going to be a lot fun (and hand pain haha) to illustrate each flower, but as plant lover, I am looking forward to it.

In other news, the 3D model stage for the next chapter of my Fisheye Placebo comic is finally complete, so I've been able to work on the new chapter panels bit by bit. It's a long and complicated chapter so it will still take some time to finish, but I hope...

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Wing Eared Cats

Just a fun little doodle. Switching it up from all those detailed paintings~

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Caged Wings

Finally finished!

It's been a lot of fun working on these more detailed paintings. They might take a lot longer to finish each one, but the result feels so worth it. I've been doing a lot of strength training and physical therapy for my hand injury so hopefully I can keep creating more at this level. I have so many ideas on what I want to draw, I can hardly decided which to tackle next!

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Work in progress: bird cage dress

Had this idea in my head for a while now. Finally gonna give it a go. Though my original idea was of a caged tiger, it somehow became birds as I sketched. Maybe I'll make another version with a tiger in the future~

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13th Hour

This one truly took so long to paint ;_; I've always loved paintings with lots of tiny hidden details but couldn't work on those very often because of my hand injury. But I decided to really indulge this time (which is why I haven't been able to post new art in the past 2 weeks). Most of my paintings take 1-3 recording sessions but this one took 10 ahahaha

The character is Dante, a painter from my work in progress novel about artists titled 1000 Words Unframed. He's an eccentric one an...

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Infinity Axolotl

The final blursed being in my Axolotl series! This has been so much fun and quite different from my usual subjects. Maybe some other cursed inspirations will strike me again the future~

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Planetarium Dress

Finally got to paint this idea I had after failing the last time. My friend suggested a music dress so I might take a stab at that next :D


Here's the sketch. Download the attachment for a timelapse~ The full hours long video recording, HD image, and PSD file will be DMed on March 5th
 

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Snowbound

I just got back from hiking in the snow with my huskies and I feel endlessly inspired by the beauty of the snowy landscapes. The snow creates such an ethereal world, I wish I could have stayed longer.

Bonus photos of my babies <3 

2025-02-17 03:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Stellarium Dress

My original plan was to pain a planetarium dress with the Solar System as the main focus, but I got carried away with making the dress go woooosh that the composition no longer works for a Solar System lol. I'm still happy with how this one turned out, and I still get to paint the actual planetarium dress later ahahaha

Sketch below, you can download the attachment for a short timelapse. The full hours long video recording, HD image, and PSD file will be DMed on March 5th.

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Patreon Messaging System is broken

Hi everyone!

I always send out the monthly rewards via direct message on the 5th of each month, but the Patreon messaging system is currently glitching out. Instead of the usual method of letting me select who to message by tier, the system is limiting the messages to 4 people at a time, and then I have to manually select everyone else.

I did my best to DM the rewards everyone, but I might have missed some people. If you did not receive your reward, please let me know in the co...

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