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Ari Ganahl 🦑🖌
@arithetonberry.bsky.social
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Multi-media artist and squid enthusiast. Occasionally NSFW. Check my art feed 🖌️ to see the stuff I make
💼: ariganahl.com
✉️: ariganahl@gmail.com
Open for work- especially in comics or book design
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Ari Ganahl 🦑🖌 @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jul 17
Hello! I'm Ari, a multi-media artist from Chicago.
I make:

🦈Comics and zines, including trans smut
🐠Ocean-inspired illustrations
🐡Laser cut jewelry and puzzles
🦑Hand-bound sketchbooks and notebooks
🐙Whatever YOU want to pay me to draw! (ex in 🧵)

ariganahl.com/shop
ko-fi.com/ariganahl/co...
A picture of many zines on a table Papercraft illustration of a nautilus catching a shrimp Laser cut wooden earrings of goldfish in a fishbowl Some sketchbooks on a wooden table
arithetonberry.bsky.social
My favorite little guy 🖌
Digital drawing of Vivi Orunitier from Final Fantasy 9 casting a spell
December 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
This feels like a silly time to post this, but I drew an essay about the game Blue Prince and I want to share.

This game got inside my brain in a way I really enjoyed, and I have thoughts
(no spoilers for puzzles or plot)

#comicoop 💥 #BluePrince #fanart
Blue Prince is a Conversation with the House. A comic essay by Ari Ganahl Contains minor spoilers for themes and mechanics in the game Blue Prince
July 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
🔞 My piece for @noahsark.bsky.social I'm Not Allowed To Draw This! zine

I don't need an excuse to draw smut, so I took the opportunity to try my hand at gore. This was a lot of fun :)

Check out everyone's work here (for free!) papriqa.itch.io/inatdt
naked trans man with tattoos crying while a giant millepede crawls out of his torso and encircles him. The man's heart and ribcage are partially visible. The man and millepede are being watched by eyes and creatures in the background
September 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
Curious robin :)

#🪶 🦅 🖌️
Digital illustration of a robin on a branch looking into a window, where a wooden bird sits on the sill
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
Isopods 🖌

#invert
Drawing of a roly poly and a rubber ducky isopod
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
Art v artist 2025!

There's too much from this year that I can't share yet, so I went for all digital pieces for once
A man with curly black hair surrounded by brightly colored digital drawings of people and animals
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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kelmcdonald.bsky.social
Screenshot from Phoenix Wright of a gun being pointed at the camra with the caption "Merry Christmas"
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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galegalligan.bsky.social
amphibia fanart circa 2022! 🇹🇭🐸🌿
Meticulously hatched B&W Amphibia fanart. Sasha, Marcy, and Anne stand on rocks in the middle of a small forest stream. Sasha and Marcy are enjoying the moment and playing with each other while Anne looks back over her shoulder at the viewer.
October 28, 2024 at 4:55 PM
arithetonberry.bsky.social
Art v artist 2025!

There's too much from this year that I can't share yet, so I went for all digital pieces for once
A man with curly black hair surrounded by brightly colored digital drawings of people and animals
December 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
arithetonberry.bsky.social
spent so many years not understanding how to make my art look more consistent and i wish i could shake my younger self and reveal that what i needed to do was find out what i like drawing enough to draw it badly
December 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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julesetc.meangirls.online
with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry.

come over.
We Have Enough Dead Friends by LENA OLEANDERSON Come over. The doors are open, my flat's a mess and so is my heart but the doors are always open. Come over. I will make soup, probably from frozen but the important thing is we will both eat. You don't have to be dying, but if you are, or you feel like you are, or if living's been hard, call me, and I will show up. It doesn't have to be that bad, it doesn't have to be bad at all, but if it is, please call. Do you want me to do the groceries? Do you want me to mop the floors? Do you need to be held; you don't have to be dying to be held. If you want me to be there, I want to. I'm on the bathroom floor again, and breathing is hard, and eating's been hard, and sleeping, the world is a laden thing rolling around on my chest lately. Just being alive is heavy tonight, but we have enough dead friends. Come over.
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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leeknoxostertag.bsky.social
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social
Becoming A Monster
Part 1 of 3
#art

Join my patreon to get this set and see how it's made
▶️https://www.patreon.com/c/yoshiyoshitani
Becoming A Monster
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
arithetonberry.bsky.social
decided my 2026 goal is to read all of discworld so we'll see how that goes
December 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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hawthorn
illustration of a creature, vaguely humanoid, in a green gown with red sleeves, holding a sword-like weapon. the gown shreds into leaves at every hem, and long spines form a sort of ruff around the neck, which ends in a fire. in front of the fire floats a green mask, split in half down the middle to reveal a flat plaque with an eye engraved on it. leaves drift down around the fire. behind the figure is a halo and a golden sky, honeycombed with faint gold hexagons. the figure stands amid ruins and vines and is framed by a black arch. at the bottom of the arch is the name "hawthorn" in gold gothic lettering
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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arithetonberry.bsky.social
Coconut octopus commission for fasterthanthelevator on tumblr!

I take commissions on ko-fi ko-fi.com/ariganahl
Digital illustration of a coconut octopus inside a scallop shell. A snail shell and glass mug are in the sandscape behind the octopus. Beneath the octopus are various stages of a coconut being split open and hollowed out to just the shell.
October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
arithetonberry.bsky.social
Isopods 🖌

#invert
Drawing of a roly poly and a rubber ducky isopod
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Ari Ganahl 🦑🖌
heyraguio.bsky.social
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
arithetonberry.bsky.social
Honestly I wonder what impression I've given off for the past year. It's been the craziest year of my life but I'm not someone who Posts Through It so I don't know what comes through 😅
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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gchoule.bsky.social
This is a really good point. What is the point of art disconnected from place and history and culture. Sparking interest in nothing. Lowest common denominator fever dream.
kortizart.bsky.social Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 9d
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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housegoblin.bsky.social
when you try to console people without getting their hopes up too much in case everything gets worse
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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spacewhalerider.com
The horrors persist but so do I, but also could the horrors like. slow down perhaps
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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kenney.nl
Here's how to support human artists! 🎨
How to support human artists... FREE TIER: follow, like, share, review, reject AI PAID TIER: donate, merch, subscribe, commission, license Image by Kenney (www.kenney.nl) Original icons (some edited) by Lucide (ISC License) Fonts used: mini-わくわく & 和風ぽっぷ
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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anthonyavonart.bsky.social
Green art! 💚
November 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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mostlyghostly.bsky.social
Old stuff I still like 🤿🪼🐉🐙🏖️
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM