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Hagfish study from a photograph. I love how they wrinkle.
A digital painting of a hagfish that is curled up. A hagfish is an animal that is shaped like an eel or worm and is long and slimy. Here its body is curled into a spiral as it rests on the ocean floor. The digital painting uses brighter colors than an actual hagfish has and focuses on the contrast between most of the animal's smooth skin and the places on the inside of the spiral where the skin is creased.
May 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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There's some Alison Art in here! The little statue and bowl of mystery stew and noodles are mine.
trulyavaporeon.bsky.social Vap / Katie Emma @trulyavaporeon.bsky.social · Apr 6
🍄Tomorrow's the big day!!!🍄
April 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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In 2019 I made lil 16 page Roland zines. Roland, my fursona, is a witch and I read a lot of research journal articles to invent a new magical practice from scratch that would make sense for him, as a bearded vulture. A few people ended up thinking it was a real thing.
A photograph of a small black and white zine. The cover faces the camera. The title is "OSTEOTHRIPSIS" in big stylized letters, with the subtitle "HOW A BEARDED VULTURE CAN TELL YOUR FUTURE BY SHATTERING BONES" in handwriting. Then there is a picture of a smug-looking anthropomorphic bearded vulture, Roland, and he has a speech bubble saying "it's magic" in parenthesis. Under the picture is text that reads "A ZINE BY ALISON ROBIN FEATURING ROLAND OSSIFRAGE" A photograph of pieces of a zine being assembled before photocopying. There are drawings of an anthropomorphic rabbit missing an ear and several bones. Some of the text is blurred out, but the text that is visible is handwritten and says, "OSTEOTHRIPSIS is a word that Roland made up. It combines OSTEO, relating to bones, and THRIPSIS, shattering into pieces. It refers to the ritual of intentionally breaking bones and interpreting the way that they come apart.
November 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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I made a funky little bird patch for a friend a while ago and received word today that it is finally going to be applied to the ass!
A photograph of the seat of a pair of pants. There is a black denim patch over the right cheek, presumably covering a hole. It has not been sewn in place yet. The patch has a hand-sewn design of a little yellow bird with a long straight beak standing on blue and gold triangles.
January 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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This suit looked like a little guy nervous to go to school on its first day so I drew it real quick
A screenshot of a product listing for a chemical and radiation protective suit. The suit is not occupied by a human and rests on a flat surface, giving it the appearance of a flattened person with hands and feet where the torso ends in an enormous head. Some of the label and air intakes and outtakes are placed in such a way that it looks to have wonky eyes. My drawing of the suit from the previous image. It is a very cartoony take, imagining if the flattened suit was an alien type of person with an enormous head. It stands as if it doesn't know where it should go or what it should do.
April 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Study from a photo of a crab. The original photograph I worked from is by Tin Yam Chan, who (as I understand it) is an expert on deep sea crustaceans and has tons of great photos.
A digital drawing of a crustacean. The image is rough. The crustacean (which appears more crab than lobster) is seen from above. It appears to have a long "nose" jutting forward. Most unusually, it is the bright green color of tree leaves, while most crustaceans are absolutely not
August 27, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Some patches I made a while back are off to a new home in Wales.
A photograph of two patches for clothes. One is three inches squared and contains layers of fabric with many stitches to give it texture. One is six inches squared with blue fabrics and an embroidered pattern of a bird with a crown.
August 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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My mom and I are very clumsy so broken dishes happen fairly often. We save the shards and periodically make mosaics out of them, especially if they were nice bowls or things we were attached to. Here's today's!
A photograph of a concrete stepping stone mold. It is filled with concrete and covered with many shards from blue and white dishes.
August 14, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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I need to stop trying to finish my drawings too far past this point
A digital drawing with some painterly elements. It is in a very sketchy stage. An anxious young person with long blonde hair looks over a white bottle of an unknown substance in her hands. Her eyes are red as if she has been crying.
August 8, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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Doodling it.
A digital drawing. It is not detailed. A man wearing a dark suit covering most of his body sits in a bathtub, lifting an arm to bare an open wound. A young woman looks on with fearful posture. Everything in the bathroom is ugly.
July 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Want to draw this scene so I'm doing doodles to see what I like the look of. My visual imagination sucks so I have to "think with my hands" (as @thorazos.bsky.social calls it) and I do tons of thumbs of ideas before I do anything big.
A photograph of a page from my diary sketchbook showing the roughest sketches you have ever seen in little thumbnail boxes. Most reflect an agonized man with a scared girl trying to help.
July 8, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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A linen shirt with some holes has been sent to me to fix and patch over with an elaborate patch. My first step, though, will be putting a patch of fabric behind the hole and stitching all over to stabilize it, so the hole absolutely cannot spread. I love to stabilize.
A photo of a ragged and threadbare hole in linen fabric. Between some of the remaining threads, the audience can see that I have placed a piece of dark indigo cotton.
July 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Just sharing this because I have determined that Darth Maul is the hardest character to draw from anything because the facial tattoos are basically expression camouflage. God damn.
A digital drawing. Most of the canvas is blank but there is a fairly detailed and semi-realistic drawing of Darth Maul's head. Maul is a character from Star Wars. He has red skin and strange black facial tattoos, plus a crown of horns.
June 16, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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A page I submitted a while back to a little library community anthology zine.
A photograph of a piece of paper with drawings and handwritten text on it. It says, "My favorite book is called The 13 Clocks by James Thurber." Then there's a drawing of hands holding the book and the text, "I found a copy in my house before I knew how to read and fell in love with the illustrations by Marc Simont" then there's a drawing of me as a kid reading it and text that says, "I stared at it for hours. The book was already very old when I was born! When I got older, I read the words, too, and realized this book is just delicious if your food of choice is words. Rhymes & poetry are hidden in the prose, hard to find unless you read out loud." Then there is a large text quote from the book. "He was six feet four and forty-six, and even colder than he thought he was" and then text that helpfully adds, "a line about the bad guy" to clarify the quote. At the bottom is a drawing of me reading in bed and the words "I still read it as a bedtime story sometimes. --Alison Robin
June 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Diary check. I am once again playing with stickers. My boxes and folders of stuff I cut out of magazines are getting too full so I need to use them more.
A photograph of an open diary. All handwritten text has been pixelated except for the date, Saturday June 1. There are photos of water at a beach covered in stickers of sea life. The stickers are cartoonish and whimsical.
June 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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This was the initial Walda sketch I made after I first had the dream a while back. I forgot the cute companion surgery robot had bloody hands in this one.
A digital sketch of a girl looking apprehensive and curious. She stands in a puddle of blood. Behind her there is a concrete pillar with bloody handprints on it. The girl is accompanied by a floating pink robot with bloody hands. Large text reads "Walda" and smaller text reads "Mondays @ 6PM!"
June 7, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Just a cat and a juicebox gone fishin'
An digital sketch in black and white. An anthropomorphic girl cat in a dress sits on a dock. She looks comfortable and has one paw resting across her lap, leaning back on the other paw while her feet hang over the water. Next to her, a non-anthropomorphic but somehow alive juice box is fishing in the water. A line extends from its straw and it seems to have hooked something.
June 1, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Hell yeah, I love the guy on the left, they look like they have so many good stories about adventures
A black and white digital drawing of an anthropomorphic bird person sitting in an arm chair. They look relaxed and are gesticulating as if telling a story to onlookers
May 30, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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Was going to make this into a sticker but I lost the painting when I moved! This was based on an actual leaf I found on the ground. You can see I was using the rest of the paper to test colors for other stuff.
A photograph of a watercolor of a fallen maple leaf. The leaf is red and tinged with brown and purple, like many leaves in late late autumn.
May 16, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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I lost this painting. Cannot find the physical copy to scan in. Oh well.
A photograph of a watercolor painting. The painting features a person with three faces cradling their intestines in one arm.
May 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Two studies from photographs, each approximately 10 minutes, before bed.
A digital drawing. There are two portraits of women, both low in detail. The one on the left is lit in gold and blue from different angles and the woman looks up. The one on the right has a red background and dark hair and wears an expression of curiosity.
May 15, 2024 at 5:32 AM
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In Burns, OR, I recently stayed at a house where about a dozen California Quail (Callipepla californica) would swing by the house every day to check the yard for morsels fallen from a hanging birdfeeder. Took a shot at drawing a male in ink. #birds
A traditional drawing of a male California quail. His body is in profile, kind of, but he faces the viewer.
April 14, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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(cont'd) “Do I know you?” he said, his voice even more mellifluous. “I do, don’t I?”

(Here's the version that's just Christopher Carrion)
A black and white digital drawing of the character Christopher Carrion from Abarat. It is an isolated version of the character as he appears in the previous post. He is in black and white, ghoulish and pale, reaching an unusually long hand out.
April 17, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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I drew a spooky scene from Abarat Chapter 16: The Universal Eye by Clive Barker

“Now what is this?” he said, so, so softly. He narrowed his eyes, taking off his glove and putting his naked hand on one of the screens as if wishing he could reach into it and seize hold of the girl herself.
A digital painting of the characters Christopher Carrion and Candy Quackenbush from Abarat by Clive Barker. Candy is a normal teenager, Carrion is a ghoulish monster man. Candy appears on a floating screen, looking angry. Carrion extends an arm as if to touch the screen.
April 17, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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You're very lucky, you know. Angels almost never take human spouses. No one in living memory has attended a wedding such as this. Don't get cold feet now.
A digital painting. Most of the image is in black and white. It appears to be the stage at a wedding of sorts. The back wall is covered with runes. A large statue covered in lit candles bears a passing resemblance to a standing humanoid with its fingers interlaced. In front of the statue is an older man in a cloak hunched over a podium with a book lit by another candle. On the left side of the picture stands a wealthy-looking woman wearing pearls. She is smiling and happy to be there. Next to her, a small boy tries to hide behind a post with candles on it. On the right side of the picture is the entity referred to in the post as an angel. It is the only part of the painting in color. Its upper body is superficially human shaped, with three red eyes. Instead of feet, it has an array of tentacles. One tentacle coils around the old man's podium. A different tentacle is snuffing out candles in the background. Some tentacles spill off of the altar.
April 12, 2024 at 9:34 PM