Something I never thought I would see/hear again:
✨ Anime Web Turnpike ✨
The Nostalgia just washed over me all at once lool.
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Illustrator | ✨Inspired by African and AfroAtlantic cultures ✨ Lvl. 30 Suggestive Art Old Man yelling at clouds vibes https://www.markiajenai.com/ https://www.patreon.com/unclemj ---- Please be aware that there may be the occasional spicy art.
Something I never thought I would see/hear again:
✨ Anime Web Turnpike ✨
The Nostalgia just washed over me all at once lool.
Now tell me why my mama got me cooking all this food and she out with friends? I’m so mad 😠
Made some Cayenne lemon pepper fried wings, garlic butter stove top grilled shrimp to put on top of some red skin mashed potatoes.
😡😡😡 she eating BURGERS. BURGERS 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Anyway guess I’ll return to touching grass and doodling in a sketchbook. It’s been very healthy for me. I still have some ways to go to disconnect from social media as a whole buuuuut I’m getting there
I revisited old accounts of mine on DA and FA and omg seeing artist new post be delivered straight to your notifs and neatly sorted. Love that. The joy I felt knowing they’re still drawing out here in this crazy world also was nice
I been back on Bluesky for a few days from a 2.5 month break and I truly can officially say I defeated the FOMO feeling of social medias with feeds.
I do not enjoy posting things to a feed with an infinite scroll. I realize that’s part of why things feel meaningless for me on similar sites.
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”
In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work
My aunts and mom would overhear stories from me and my cousins' past and told us it's sad how much they missed out on cause of work.
Inspired me to give Esi that dilemma. She's at least vocal about it, and she has ppl who will hear her, not guilt her. (well her family guilts her on everything ngl)
Esi yearns to be a homemaker, but her life was full of housekeepers and eventually Mazi, who was her cooking-and-cleaning boyfriend, now her husband. Mazi never asked her to change, but she feels guilty about always being at her big job. ;3; Mazi is doing his best so she can have more days off tho.
The husband walks into a smoky room. His wife tried to make pancakes for their small child, but she can't cook well. The burnt pancake falls from the pan and breaks the plate. Everyone is shocked
Esi tries cooking, Mazi is concerned, and Adia is scared.
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Mazi is Maijira's (older) twin bro.
#comic #sliceoflife #originalcharacters #OCs
Arkveld beat my ass, so I'm chilling over here with you guys 🥲
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NSFW stream
nothing graphic but its tatas and maybe a peen might show up lol
Evolution sketches of my #drow necromancer who still has no name~
#sketch
lol
dialed.gg
The world sucks, time to remember our roots nerds
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Commissioned a ref sheet of my #NoHomeInTwilight character, Grant Holbrook! Thank you to the exceptionally talented @mjenai.bsky.social, I love how it turned out!
Finding jobs is hell rn. Even people I know who work at decent ones are like yeah… we ain’t hiring.
Economy is bad. It’s so bad rn.
People around me all been hearing rumors about their businesses / jobs about to close. I’m in the rust belt so jobs are scarce af here
I just got off work man…it’s time for me to shake some ass or something cause this some bullshit got for Pennies.
I’m losing my mind at both jobs lowkey but at least one got ok pay and I’m doing my best to get better at it.
To even compare herself to her when a simple google search would've solved all of this XD
He said Royalty and an Olympian and she ain't consult the Googler??? A Royal asked you for 6k?
My face listening to the Danish Deception girl tell this boring ass story bout her rich ass getting scammed cause she couldn't resist the swirl.
Nooo my skeletons LOL
I had the chilliest night at work on Halloween!
Got off and immediately had to drive to my aunt whose car flipped on the road cause two cars wanted to race.
She’s very much fine just sore af but god we didn’t get home until 3am and we are all feeling it rn
🎃🎃🎃
🎃Happy Halloween 🎃
“Kinda squashed looking “ ✨😭✨
In other news~
I sketched up something cute. Can’t share just yet.
Asked my patrons on discord for suggestions on monster folk ideas to draw.
Yall should leave me ideas toooooo~
It doesn’t have to be existing IPs. It can just be physical traits.
That’s wild cause Romance +Comedy is romance plus something else.
Romantasy is Romance + Fantasy
Is romance plus something else
Slice of life is a whole separate genre. Western Markets pushes its romance sub-genre imho
But it’s ok to just say no romance, yet ppl have to justify their like of it
Yeah i never understand avoiding saying no.
Lowkey i think its cause ppl do love romance, most fandoms are running purely on ships and romance books, in all their forms, are top earners in trad publishing, indie and webtoons/comic spaces where users reading stats matters.
Yeah lik just say no man. Still gonna annoy you about some Blorbos smoochin ✨🫶🏾✨ that no ain’t stopping meeeeeee 😂😂😂
Hey artists
Just keep posting.
Last post didn’t get many likes? Keep posting.
Not 100% happy with what you made? Post it.
Feel like you aren’t getting anywhere? Keep posting.
You never know who will find you and when.