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This image was done as a submission for the cover art of "Spring Tracks XI" over on battle of the bits. I also turned in an edited version for a project in one of my art classes in college XP. There's no rule over there that entries have to be exclusively made for battle of the bits compos but I admit it is a little sleazy. It didn't win tho, so hey, no harm no foul??

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This is a dog

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I made this pixel art using this photo by Peter Trimming as reference: https://flickr.com/photos/55426027@N03/8639029397. I think it turned out rly good and I use this image for pretty much everything because I like it so much. Thank U peter for taking such an amazing image and also for licensing it under CC-BY so that I can use it!!!!!

Here are some variants I like

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This is an entry for a future group composition that never ended up happening on battle of the bits. Pxtone is a free music software made by Daisuke Amaya, the creator of cave story, for his next major game after cave story, Kero Blaster. A couple years later, A fan of pxtone who goes by Sidedishes released his own remake of the pxtone editor called Pxtone Collab. In my opinon, it's a refinement of the original Pxtone editor in almost every way. It's so smooth and polished and it even has a live collab feature which is really rare in music software. it's so amazing that it exists and I love using it so much. If you've been wanting to get into music and are ok using a music editor that's kind of limited and mostly suited for chiptune I highly reccomend giving pxtone collab a try over here: https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/

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A quick sketch of a coyote I did based on this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coyote_Salt_Creek_Marsh.jpg I believe I found this image using https://wikiview.net/ which is kind of a crazy and amazing tool to me. It basically takes any image on Wikipedia and displays similar images next to it on a big globe. You can scroll the whole thing like a map of every image on Wikipedia which is kind of crazy to me. It's so cool. And all the images there are licensed under creative commons so they're all free to use with restrictions!!!!

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A cover art I made for the Battle of the Bits 2021 Advent calendar! I love this event. Every day people are assigned one of many ancient obsolete video game consoles to write music for! It really taught me a lot about early video game sound and obscure 70's and 80's consoles. on some of the days there might be a different type of prompt, like making cover art for the battle, and that's what this is from.

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A one page comic about people who live on a cold planet. It's meant to be read from the bottom up. Not many people read this fact before reading, which I guess I should have expected lol.

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Artfight 2025!!!

These are some images I made for Art Fight 2025! It was my first year doing it! I always wanted to participate but I never rly got around to it before. This year tho I had a character that I wanted to make art of and I felt more confident in my art, so I jumped in about 3/4 of the way through the event and I was immediately hooked! I spent the rest of the final week grinding out as much art as I could! It was rly fun, and next year I hope to participate for the whole month!! I want to shout out www.heatherfranzen.com, who made a really incredible drawing of my deer character completely out of the blue, and trashguts.com, who encouraged me to try out Artfight and also drew an amazing drawing of my goat guy

These are the only couple images on my site that aren't licensed as cc-by, because they use other people's characters.

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I was bored in class so I drew a lil sketch of a guy in cleveland. I digitized it in clip studio but I wasn't rly feeling it anymore so I dropped it for a while but I always wanted to come back to it. After A while I decided to remake it but furry. It uses a technique I really liked where I would do the lines in india ink and then scan them in just using my phone, which works really well because india ink is so dark that you can isolate the linework really easily from everything else with some simple editing just because the lines are so dark. Also, back then I didn't know how to do digital line work. I don't know if I do now either. below the colored version is a 3 color alternate version

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Making cool abstract tiles is fun. I wanted to do more with these but I never got around to it. The most I ever did was put them on an older website of mine, and mash them up in a small blender scene. I still think there's something here, though.

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Some more art I made for battles over on Battle of the Bits! Can you tell I like this website?

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These are some pixel art pieces from around 2018-2021. Most of the stuff I made around that time is not good enough to share, but these are a few selections from that time period that I feel have held up. The first image is a recreation of my favorite Van Gogh piece, "Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy", which hangs in the beautiful Museum of Art in Cleveland

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My first ever demoscene-style project!!! It was made using a program called TIC-80 which is basically an open source clone of Pico-8. The code was written by hand in LUA in one day. In the full demo, there's music and you can click the cubes to open them. You can try it out here:

https://tic80.com/play?cart=4094

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A little tiger guy. Originally it was based on a photo, but it deviated a lot from it over the course of making the piece. I was trying to emulate older demoscene-style pixel art. In pixel art there's this technique called hue-shifting, where you color your shadows with a cooler color than the illuminated parts. I wanted to see what a piece without hue shifting would look like. I didn't fully succeed, as there's a little bit of hue variation, but it's pretty minimal.

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Some unfinished mtg cards... maybe these should've gone in the sketchbook...
I originally, I made them for a friend but I never finished them!!! I'm so sorry!!!!!

See if you can guess what the top card is without looking at the file name. (Hint: It's a red and blue card)

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A few prints I made for a printmaking class at my university! Printmaking is so fun and I really want to do more of it in the future! The first is an etching from a copper plate I carved, and the others are monotypes!!!