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I'm working on getting ready to launch my portfolio website this week and I drew this lil guy today to welcome visitors onto my page :)

Edit: My website is now up!! You can come say "hi" to this fella in their proper home on the homepage of https://maemaemae.com/ <3 <3 :D

#my art #digital art #digital drawing #praying mantis #mantid #mantidae #insects #bug art #insect art #bugposting #spiny flower mantis #professional artist #artists on tumblr #open for work #commissions open

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Outlaws movie night with the green eyed trio :) 💫����🏹

Textless version below the cut!

#my art #fan art #digital art #starfire #kori anders #koriand'r #red hood #jason todd #arsenal #arsenal dc #red arrow dc #roy harper #the outlaws dc #the outlaws #dc comics #dc fanart #red hood and the outlaws #movie night #the ring movie #batman #teen titans

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D&D party movie style poster, a commission that I finished last month for a friend (Posted with permission from the commissioner! <3)

3 characters, full simple background, majority cell shading :)

#my art #faerun #dungeons and dragons #art commissions #commission #commission work #dnd art #dnd character #dnd5e #dnd #dnd party #d&d #d&d 5e #d&d art #d&d character #digital drawing #digital art #ttrpg #ttrpg art #ttrpg character #halfling #human #paladin #rogue #cleric #cleric dnd #rogue dnd #paladin dnd

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Hello fellow Alien Stage enjoyers… how are we all feeling about round six? Carefree and unconcerned?? Yeah, me too!! /s /s /s

#alien stage #vivinos #my art #fan art #digital art #alien stage round 6 #alien stage ivan #alien stage till #alien stage mizi #alien stage hyuna #alien stage Luka #alien stage sua #YouTube #indie animation #alien stage spoilers #ivantill

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Happy 5th anniversary to my rat day drawing and a happy rat day to all who celebrate! :)

Aw yeah, it’s RAT DAY!!

#international rat day #rat day #2019

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Earlier today user @longlatitude submitted a cute lil bat miku to @dailyhatsune (which you can see for yourself here!!) and I felt inspired to try drawing a bat miku of my own :D

#hatsune miku #bat miku #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #my art #fan art #digital art #procreate #digital drawing #ipad #simple background #muted colors #miku hatsune #miku #vocaloid art #miku vocaloid #teeth

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2024 BOOP BADGE CHAMPION!!!!

#good god I need to go to sleep #april 1st #april fool's day #boop o meter #meow #goodnight

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2016 (my first ever digital drawing, age 14) -> 2018 -> 2020 -> 2024 (today! Age 22 :) )

Every two years I redraw Miku showing a heart in some way, rules are that I’m not allowed to look at any of the previous Mikus except for when I go to post the newest one. I missed 2022’s Miku bc of some difficulties at school but I’m almost graduated college now so it’s wild to see freshman to senior year as my previous gap! I love seeing all the ways my style has changed and what things persist. This year’s major realization is that my colors get more muted every iteration lol

I think this is a lovely way to memorialize my artistic journey and I’m so excited to see how 2026 ends up looking <3

#art journey #redraw #digital art #fan art #my art #procreate #digital drawing #hatsune miku #vocaloid #ibispaintx #iPad #Miku

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I wanna take a sec to talk about Lucky Penny.

If you haven’t been lucky enough to have heard of Lucky Penny before now: it is my favorite graphic novel. It has been since junior year of High-school. I am now a senior in my final semester in college (and accounting for my Covid style gap year) Lucky Penny has been my #1 fave graphic novel for six years and counting.

It’s funny, it’s raunchy, the characters feel real, the story is well paced and takes some very fun and unexpected twists! However, the story and art aren’t the only reason I love Lucky Penny. I originally found Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh via their autobiographical book of daily life comics Johnny Wander: Our Cats Are More Famous Than Us, which I had picked up from the local library and was absolutely thrilled to find out was a webcomic that at the time was still actively updating. On their website (linked here!) you can actually read Lucky Penny and their Autobiographical comics completely for free as well as their current (still updating) work, Barbarous.

For me Lucky Penny acts as a bridge and a love letter to middle school me, who avidly read webcomics on solo hosting sights, many of which have been lost to time or have simply stopped updating. Self published webcomics outside of companies like Tapas (formerly Tapastic) and LINE Webtoon have ensured that solo host websites are far and few in between and routinely get looked over. Despite existing in the face of these big companies Johnny Wander lives on.

Lucky Penny is like warm soup. It’s comforting and every read feels different depending on where I am emotionally and just in my life in general. You can find Lucky Penny free to read on Johnny Wander here and even grab a physical copy for yourself here if you prefer paper. Updates on Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh’s current work and activities can be found on their respective tumblrs @aidosaur and @ananthhirsh

If you choose to read Lucky Penny I hope you love it. I’m sure you will. :)

#Lucky penny book #Johnny Wander #barbarous #webcomic #early internet #love letter to the past #and a hopeful look to the future #fan art #digital art #procreate #comics #comic #book recommendations #book review #graphic novel #teen fiction #ya books #ya comics #romance #coming of age #fantasy #D&D #dnd #dungeons and dragons #scott pilgrim

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Hm, me? Oh yeah, I’m totally normal about @zillychu ‘s firecore AU and def haven’t been thinking about it since it first crossed my dashboard! :)

#no but fr #zillychu’s art is so so cooool #lives rent free in my head aaaaaa #very patiently but also eagerly waiting for the ao3 fic of this AU <3 <3 #danny phantom #danny Fenton #zillychu #fire core AU #DP #cartoon #fan art #my art #digital art

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WIP I probably won’t finish … but once I find the secret to becoming invested in making bgs I’ll be undefeatable, so like, watch out!!

#tim drake #red robin dc #timothy drake wayne #batman #my art #digital art #digital illustration

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I think I’m in an art slump,,, not rlly liking anything I draw, which is absolutely stellar during art school finals time :’) <- sarcasm.

Anywho, drew the lad to relax a lil and apparently drawing him calmed me down so much my Fitbit was convinced I was asleep cjcmkdmdm

#gave him silly lil arm stripes bc I’m a sucker for the ones on nightwing’s costume #i just think hes neat #also some funky flame motifs on his boots #bc they’re cool!! so there!!!! #my art #digital drawing #danny phantom #danny fenton #danny phantom fanart #dp fanart #blob ghosts #amity park #nostolgia #childrens cartoons #cartoon #muted colors #limited palette

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A Vampire and her adoring Thrall

#last minute mess Halloween post #happy halloween #ok yes I’m a day late #but #this was never meant to be INKED much less COLORED #so like #be proud of me instead lol #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #batman #happy november #digital drawing #stephcass #spoiler dc #black bat dc #black bat #batgirls

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This just in: local vigilante is decidedly NOT pouting.

#dick grayson #nightwing #Batman #fanart #fan art #my art #digital art #comics #dc comics #dc fanart #gotham #bludhaven

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I still feel like this piece isn’t done but I don’t think I’ll ever be satisfied with it and I spent way too long on it to NOT post it…

#tim drake #red robin (tim drake) #red robin dc #dc comics #batman #tim drake wayne #my art #digital art #Gotham #Gotham city

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I redrew a piece of Alya fanart that I drew back in 2018! The original post gets a note or two every month or so and I thought it might be a fun experiment to see how I’ve improved :) You can see the original below the cut but 5 years has really done me wonders haha!

Link to original post here :)

#my art #fan art #digital art #fanart #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #rena rouge #alya cesaire #cartoons #redraw #personal redraw #art improvement #artist on tumblr #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir

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My artfight card :D

#artfight #art fight 2023 #team werewolves #my art