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Deb 🌺
@drpcreates.bsky.social
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Your local black redhead. Animator. Flower Wearer. OC artist. she/her. Illustrator of the book Grandma, I Told You, I'm a Big Boy

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Nov 22
Hey there, I've finally got with the program and moved to Bluesky. I'm Deborah, an animator and OC artist. I've done some freelancing but a lot of what I post is personal art. I post regularly on Fridays and I may try double posting to backlog my old art.
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Here's a drawing of my current dnd character, Tempest. The party is attending a party and the DM had us roll to see how sick our characters' outfits will be. I rolled real bad which the DM mercifully flavored where Tempest had a good fit but she threw her varsity jacket on top of it lol.
Three drawings in different perspectives of a dragon born wearing formalwear with a varsity jacket on top. There's a full body, a profile headshot and a bust length drawing of her.
January 31, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Back to posting art I did last awhile ago. In the last two weeks of October I had time gotten back to my regularly scheduled program of OCs in Halloween costumes! For Halloween Crystal and Mason decided to switch places with Crystal dressing as a vampire and Mason dressing as a siren.
An illustration of a chibi couple in halloween costumes. The siren girlfriend is dressed as a vampire. The vampire boyfriend is dressed as a siren.
January 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Time for the final set in the series! Here is Calamity aka Peyton. As I was drawing this, I realizes I've never done a full bodied drawing of Peyton before but I made it work. It was fun figuring out a pose for her.
An illustration of a villainess. There is a pattern of lightening bolts behind her. The same illustration of the villainess again but with her civilian identity overlay. There are lightening bolt patterns across the illustrations to show parts of both. An illustration of the villainess in her civilian identity. There is a pattern of squares behind her. The illustrations of the villainess and civilian identities overlayed again but with scratches to show different parts of each image.
January 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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I ended up breaking my usual October tradition to continue this series with Sophia aka The Green Thumb. The beloved hero and former best friend of Leila. She's always been a bit self-absorbed. She misses fighting crime with Leila but she downplays her impact in the Incident.
An illustration of a plant themed hero. She has a trail of flowers behind her. The same illustration of the hero again but with her civilian identity overlay. There are three waves across the illustrations to show parts of both. An illustration of the plant themed hero in her civilian identity. She has a trail of circles behind her. The hero and civilian illustrations are overlayed again. Now there are flower patterns across to reveal different parts of the illustrations.
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Finally posting my backlog of art, starting with the mini series of drawings of civilian vs alter egos. I began with my favorite villainess OC, Leila aka the Black Butterfly. I wanted to overlay the two versions and have breaks to reveal the other below.
An illustration of a villainess. There is a trail of black butterflies behind her. The same illustration of the villainess again but with her civilian identity overlay. There are three waves across the illustrations to show parts of both. An illustration of a young woman. There is a trail of triangles behind her similar to the butterflies in the villainess illustration. The illustrations of the villainess and civilian overlayed again but this time different parts of the illustrations are visible.
January 1, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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#artvsartist2025 It's that time of year again to post art vs artist. I feel like this year, I really went through the motions just to have something to post every week. Majority of what I drew this year were redraws and while I enjoy revisiting old art, that's not all I want to draw.
A grid collage of 9 pictures, the 8 outer images are digital illustrations and the center is a selfie of the artist. Square 1 is of a fire demon sitting down grinning. Square 2 is mostly black and white illustration of a girl sitting on the edge of a cliff. Square 3 is of a fire elemental holding a flame in her left hand. Square 4 is of two mermaid sisters circling each other. Square 5 is a young woman with a flower in her twisted hair, in front of a mural of rainbow colored sunrise. Square 6 is of a young woman standing in front of a mirror as demon reaches out of the mirror and hugs the first girl's shoulders. Square 7 is on overlay of two images of the same girl but in her civilian and villain identity. Square 8 is a chibi of Mothman with his arms reaching up while fire blazes behind him. Square 9 is of a girl pushing back against a friend who is hugging her.
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Did some doodling this week and updated Maura and Khiara's designs a bit. I may continue to update Khiara's design a bit further. I have changed this girl's hair several times but I like how I updated her hair to have some similarities to her sister's. #ocs
An illustration of two young ladies. They both have a hand on their hip.
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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It's been minute since I drew my OC Alisa. I was debating what to draw and really wanted to draw one of my OCs so I went through a file I have dedicated to them and finished an old sketch. The og sketch was made before I updated Alisa's design so it was nice adapting it. #ocart
Illustration of an elf girl wearing a hoodie with her hands in the pocket. She is wearing goggles. Her hair is braided at the top and goes into an afro in the back.
September 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I decided to look into an older sketchbook to do another redraw and really expanded on it. I need to share the original sketch later. I think this is a sketchbook I had back in high school. It was also a great opportunity to play around with color which I haven't let myself do in a minute.
An illustration of a young woman sitting on the edge of a bricked column. Her hair flows to the right and holds a scythe next to her. There are specks flying around her. The same illustration as the first but its in black and white. There are pops of yellow in her collar, bottoms of her boots, and the bands of her shirts.
September 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Completely forgot to schedule this post so it's a little later than usual! Another sketch redraw, where Fidele and Heather are gushing about how much they love their partners while Naomi and Vance just look at them blankly.
An illustration of a young man and young woman expressing happiness. There are hearts floating in the center of the page. The colors of the bisexual and pansexual flags are in the background. An illustration of a young woman and young man looking blankly towards the viewer. The girl holds a bag of popcorn up as the young man reaches into the bag. The background is a mixture of the aromantic flag.
September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Finally had the chance to draw something new! This is a redraw of an old sketch of my OCs Rena and Luca. Luca got really excited and Rena is not a touchy feely friend.
An illustration of two young adult friends. The tall friend on the right is excitedly hugging the other. The friend on the left is pushing away the other and looking the other slightly annoyed and slightly embarrassed.
August 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Yet another late post: I haven't sat down at my cintiq all month so time for some pics from one of my sketchbooks for today. I'm really hoping I can do some new art over the weekend so we'll see what happens.
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Now that artfight is over, it’s time to share this fun commission I got to do for one of my oldest friends! She’s been getting back into collecting pokemon cards and started a tiktok channel (pocketnemi). I had the honor of doing her profile picture. Go check her out!!
An illustration of a young adult with one hand on her hip and the other in a peace sign on head. The pokemon rotom and wobbuffet flank her. There top of a loveball and dreamball are in front of the trio.
August 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Doing Art Fight again this year. I had a commission at the start of the month so had a slow start. I hope I can pick up the pace from now. Here are my attacks from week 1 & 2.

IdolFan85 belongs to sigmaeichi
Sunz belongs to Claiborne
Forget-Me-Not belongs to marinscos
Cherry belongs to Breadstore
An illustration of a young man holding glowsticks, cheering on an unseen idol group. He's wearing a school uniform with shorts. He also wears a beret with a big bow. An illustration of a woman with long twin ponytails dual wielding swords. She's leaping forward. An illustration of a short haired, muscular woman covered in scars crouching on the ground. She is surrounded by foliage. An illustration of a young woman. She appears to be leaning against something not in the image. She winks and holds up her right hand in greeting.
July 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Started playing a new #dnd campaign last week so it's time to share my new character! Meet Tempest Stormclaw, a bronze dragonborn paladin with a fatal flaw of just really wanting to help folks. She has some intense scarring and people feel the presence of death if they hang out with her too long.
An illustration of a humanoid dragon holding a sword. She has scarring on the right side of her body.
June 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I'm always avoiding drawing my OCs in profile so this was a way to push myself. Can't improve if you don't practice, right? Heather's enjoying a rainy day. I actually drew this a month ago and delayed posting because of mermay. I almost forgot I never posted this. #oc #ocart
An illustration of a young woman standing in the rain holding an umbrella. She has the umbrella tilted behind her with her face towards the sky and a hand out.
June 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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To end mermay, I thought it would be nice to do a little animation. Here's my boy Jaheem swimming. #mermay #animation #2danimation #mermaid #merman
May 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I was struck with the desire to do a jellyfish mermaid. This was the second version of this drawing and like how it turned out. #mermay #mermay2025
An illustration of a mermaid with jellyfish in the background. Instead of the typical fish tail, this mermaid is like a jellyfish with the cap and ruffled tail.
May 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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This week is the shadow twins Khiara and Maura. Maybe I should've used a more contrasting duo for this overlapping pose but it was fun drawing them. I really like how the sketch came together in the end. #mermay #mermay2025
An illustration of two mermaids. One is swimming slightly in front of the other as they face the sides of the drawing.
May 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Time for some catch up again:

This week we have a mer zombie with Mas. He's also has his skelekitty. One of these days I'll draw these two's anatomy accurately. #mermay #mermay2025
An illustration of a zombie merman and with a skeleton cat with a fish tail. The mer has hair covering the left eye. His skin and tail are tattered exposing some bone.
May 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It's time for some OC Mermay art! I'm looking forward to having a theme for this month. Starting off this year, I have the friend duo Parivash and Cherry. I want to explore more interactions with OCs that have connections that I don't draw together consistently.
An illustration of two young mermaids sitting on the ground underwater. There is a crab and starfish next to them.
May 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I had a post for last week that I accidentally didn't schedule and that's going to be another week now. Instead, I'm running late to an art trend but that's what happens when you ghost social media like I have. I could not pass up an opportunity for an anti ai trend. This was fun! #starterpacknoai
An illustration of what looks like an action figure with accessories on the side. On the left is a young woman with an afro and flower in her hair, holding a drawing pen. There are 5 sections on the right filled with two flower clips, a book, a mug of hot chocolate, snacks (chips & gummi worms) and 4 cd album covers.
April 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I drew this awhile ago as one of those drawing trends to make a demon or angel OC based. I don't even know how to find the audio because I barely remember it. I ended up not sharing it for some reason and now he finally gets to see the light of day. Not sure if I'll add him to the official line up.
An illustration of a demon man holding a giant mallet over his far shoulder. His back is towards the camera but he's turned so he's seen from the side. He's wearing a sleeveless vest and pants that's short on one leg.
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Whoops I'm a couple posts behind again, let me fix that real quick.
April 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I was looking at an old lineart drawing of an OC where I used a color from the character as the background color and wanted to try it again. Ember was a nice character for this little exercise.
Version 1. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. Her dress is the same color as the background so it blends in. Version 2. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. Her skin is the same color of the background so it blends in. Version 3. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. The edge of her hair blends into the background. Version 4. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands.
April 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM