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i remade my profile picture again !! 🫧

the progress between this and the last one is insane- i can't believe that was two months ago!

i'll never let go of kunikida in a frog hat >:]

[made in procreate] [4/27/2024]

#bsd kunikida #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs kunikida #fanart #digital art #trying to improve #new pfp #matchafroggyart

[matchafroggy]

im incapable of drawing anything else besides old-timey vox, help

him and alastor would be besties. they would rule the world together and have their own old-timey "video-podcast" and they'll have a grand old time

i love his big shiny boots, i imagine they make a squeaky toy noise when he walks (like that one spongebob episode)

[made in procreate] [4/14/24]

#hazbin hotel #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin vox fanart #hazbin hotel fanart #fanart #digital art #trying to improve #matchafroggyart

[matchafroggy]

Ahhh I love you art! Also I saw ur voxtek logos... is there any chance you could post a transparent png of it *pleading eyes emoji* (lol im on my work computer).

wahhh thank you so much!!

and of course i can, anon! thank you for asking !! 🫧

and as usual, click/tap for better quality !

#hazbin hotel #hazbin vox #voxtek #hazbin icons #digital art #matchafroggyart #anon ask #thanks anon!

[matchafroggy]

vox but he's the old-timey prick (my old-timey vox redesign)

i gave him the good ol' fashioned pacman eyes for good measure !! also, forgive me i've never had any reason to draw valentino so my lil sketch of him looks horrific

small UHF and VHF rant under the cut, because drawing old TVs threw me down a long rabbit hole.

[made in procreate] [3/27/2024]

UHF & VHF rant: my understanding of them from my very brief research on how older televisions work:

UHF = higher frequency radio; shorter wavelengths. good for traveling through walls, ceilings, and concrete. great for indoor communication (like in-home TV & radio)

VHF = lower frequency radio; longer wavelengths. best suited for the great outdoors where nothing gets in the way. might be the type also found on older cars with radio antennas.

for my old-timey vox design, i made the UHF antenna longer and more prominent because vox definitely spends most of his time indoors.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #hazbin vox fanart #hazbin valentino #hazbin hotel fanart #digital art #trying to improve #sketch #fanart #matchafroggyart

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redraw of one of my favorite lucifer frames!!

i'd let this man punch me in the face like that though <- brainrot

this time i rendered right on top of a very polished sketch and it worked out better than i expected ! 🫧

[made in procreate] [3/12/2024 - 3/21/2024] <- only worked on it those two days wahaha

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin lucifer #hazbin lucifer fanart #hazbin redraw #hazbin fanart #digital art #trying to improve #matchafroggyart

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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#this is the most beautiful thing i've ever read #literally made me cry because of how hard i relate to the beautiful impact being creative has had on my life #ai generated shit could never make me feel the way this did #im so glad this landed on my feed #everyone needs to read this #ai is not art #reblog

[matchafroggy]

vox daydreaming about other things he could swap his head out for.

vox smart fridge haunts my dreams

[made in procreate] [3/11/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #hazbin vox fanart #vox fanart #vox #hazbin fanart #sketch #doodles #fanart #literal brain rot #matchafroggyart

[matchafroggy]

wow look more vox content!!

this was so much fun to make and i hope it shows!! for once i wasn't 100% focused on perfecting things.

i still have a long way to go as an artist, but i'm very proud of this nonetheless!! 🫧

[made in procreate] [3/6/2024 - 3/7/2024]

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #hazbin vox fanart #vox fanart #vox #vox my beloved #hazbin hotel fanart #fanart #rendering #lineart #sketch #digital art #trying to improve #matchafroggyart

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! edit: please feel free to use these as you see fit!!

i couldn't find hi-res versions of the voxtek logo so i made some myself!! and now my obsession can look more official.

click/tap for full resolution !

desktop: 1920 x 1080 px

mobile: 1080 x 2400 px

icon: 2048 x 2048 px

[made in procreate] [3/6/2024]

#digital art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin icons #hazbin vox #voxtek #desktop wallpaper #mobile wallpaper

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vox struggling to put on a screen protector has been living rent free in my brain for too long

i had to get it out

[made in procreate] [3/3/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #hazbin vox fanart #vox fanart #matchafroggyart #the agony #and yes i know we don't put screen protectors on tv's #but ive seen lotsa good fanart of his screen getting shattered #and im just wondering: 'how does he protect himself from that???' #it must be painful and inconvenient to shatter your own face

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silly doodle !

i know this has been done a million times but i couldn't resist

i needed an excuse to draw vox in tears

[made in procreate] [3/2/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #doodles #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin alastor #hazbin lucifer #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel fanart #matchafroggyart

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vox sketches!!! 🫧 they're all redraws of specific frames !

i swear this is gonna turn into a vox blog. drawing him is just way too much fun

[made in procreate] [3/1/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #sketch #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin vox #hazbin vox fanart #hazbin hotel fanart #vox my beloved #matchafroggyart

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i did it i finished the alastor and vox sketch from almost a week ago!!!

i love vox, rendering him was so much fun. sorry alastor

background....? no

[made in procreate] [2/29/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #rendering #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin vox #hazbin alastor #matchafroggyart

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wip for one of my favorite lucifer frames !!

i want to do so many redraws at once- kfkekefjdjfnfsjfjd

[made in procreate] [2/24/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #sketch #art wip #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin redraw #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin lucifer #matchafroggyart

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started this sketch last night and touched it up today! i love the matching outfits so muchh aaaaeeudheudheh

i hope to fully render this at some point !! 🫧

[made in procreate] [2/22/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #sketch #fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin alastor #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel vox #matchafroggyart

[matchafroggy]

small hazbin hotel art dump !!

i draw almost nothing for two weeks, watch hazbin, and suddenly my desire to draw explodes and so do i

and i thought my BSD obsession was excessive kekekekek

[made in procreate] [2/13/2024 - 2/21/2024]

#digital art #trying to improve #fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin adam #hazbin lucifer #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel fanart #im hyperfixating again #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel vox #matchafroggyart #art dump

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Happy Valentine's Day🐦🐝

#this is so pretty!!! #i love them #over the garden wall