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★ Lo-fi Horror ★ Iowa Artist ★ She/Her ★ Kupo ★ I like feeling uneasy
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[REFUGE], 2025
A place of cleansing, quietude, and privacy.
Wash it away.
What kinds of things are we washed away? Burdens that could be lifted, or wounds that we ignore to let fester? Is our fantasy a reverie or a delusion?
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#originalart #traditionalart #copicmarker#illust #イラスト #surrealism
A young woman is sitting in a full, still bathtub. She is looking wistfully up at the ceiling. Flying around her a several goldfish. The whole room, including the girl, are shades of blue and purple - other than the bright orange goldfish, and the red light shining through the window. There is also a splotch of red blood dripping from the girl’s nose, and on her handkerchief which has been set aside.
August 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Excited to finally wear my Misato Ando dress & purse!
I’m at Anime Magic! right by the entrance ✨
August 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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[VIEWING], 2025

#illust #illustration #traditionalart #originalart #horrorart #eyes #イラスト
A young woman is looking out of a large window with the blinds drawn. We see her from behind. She is using her hand to pen through two of the closed blinds. The window is emitting a strong, glowing red light, seemingly from outside. As she is peeking out, we see many strange, large eyes peeking in at her. The blinds are bent around the eyes, open like eyelids.
July 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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QRT with your starry art.
One of my classic pieces, Moon Queen.
A feminine body floating is space. Her arms are spread out, as though in benediction. Her head is only a crescent moon. It glows with light, which is dropping off of the moon like a liquid. Her body is skeletal, lacking any sexual or reproductive organs. Her chest is a ribcage, with visible holes stretched between the ribs. The are also holes between her arm bones, and leg bones. She is at once decaying, but very much alive, with skin stretched tightly in some areas, and bones protruding too far in others. Her skin also seems to be dripping like liquid off of her, in the same way the light drips from her moon head. Trailing from her is a ghostly, flowing skirt. She is surrounded by a thin white halo, and in the background is an expanse of stars and nebulae.
July 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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For the past couple years, I’ve been very slowly working on a video game with my husband and a couple of our friends. It’s what I work on most of the time.
So when I’m not making posting for months at a time, I’m probably just trying to animate a monster running or something.
#gamedev #isometricart
June 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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[DELUGE], 2025
“No matter how much water, it’s never enough.”

#originalart #copic #copics #traditionalart #illust #イラスト #illustration #horrorart #menhera #creepyart #darkart #horrorart
A young woman is standing over a potted plant, with her head buried in her hands. It looks like she’s breaking down in tears. The potted plant looks dead, and it’s overflowing with water. There are several empty water bottles strewn about, and she’s holding a watering can in her hands. She’s wearing something akin to a Catholic school uniform, with black smoke billowing out from under her clothes, indicating a possible fire.
June 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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[DEVILISH], 2025

Finally, my last Phantom Siita piece: for Rinka!
This music video has some really cool lighting moments, with this eerie green background, and foreboding red on the foreground. I wanted to try and recreate that in my piece, it was intimidating 😞

#ファントムシータ #魔性少女 #凛花 #イラスト #illust
A young woman is sitting in a chair, surrounded by trees and bushes, it seems like she’s in a forest. She’s staring straight at the viewer with half-lidded eyes, menacingly, as thought she’s dropped a ruse. She’s wearing an all white, very puffy feminine dress, with a white ruffled headdress, and holding a single red rose. Although she’s wearing all white, she’s completely bathed in red light, rendering her almost entirely red. Emerging from her mouth is a third eyeball, also looking at the viewer. Behind her, the forest is glowing with an eerie green and blue light. In front of her are bushes with pink roses, splattered with red blood.
June 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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[MIMESIS], 2025

This is an illustration of Hisui from Phantom Siita, wearing her costume from the Hanabami music video. Unfortunately, she had to leave the group due to health reasons. So I decided to post her drawing today, her final day as a member.

#ファントムシータ #灯翠ありがとう #灯翠 #イラスト #phantomsiita
A young woman is standing in an elegant manner, wearing all red. Her arms are out, as though she's pressing against the walls inside of a small box. There are four pairs of ghostly red arms trailing behind her own, as though they are showing the remnants of her choreography. Her head is partially engulfed by growing flowers. Vein-like striations are creeping down her legs, followed by red flower petals growing out of them.
May 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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[METAMORPHOSIS], 2025
I wanted to do a piece where the girls are slowly transforming into moths.
I guess I was right to draw Hisui as the closest to become a full moth. She completed her transformation first, and had to fly away🦋
#phantomsiita #moth #ファントムシータ #イラスト #illust #illustration
Five young girls sitting in a row, wearing matching uniforms. They are all sitting with their legs tucked under them, directly on the ground. Above the girls, they are numbered from 1 to 5 in Roman numerals. There is nothing particularly unusual about the first girl. The second girl has moth antennae sprouting from her head. She’s turned to the first girl, looking at the viewer and smiling menacingly. She and the first girl are holding hands, it almost looks like they’re sharing secrets. The third girl has moth antennae and moth wings. She is staring unflinchingly at the viewer; her hand is resting on the lap of the fourth girl. The fourth girl has antennae, wings, and an extra set of arms. She is smiling mischievously and looking at the fifth and final girl. The last girl has antennae, wings, 4 arms, and large black insect-like eyes on a twisted smiling expression. All of the girls seem to be looking at the viewer and laughing amongst each other. There are large red pins lying among them, some of them pieced through the excess fabric of their skirt.
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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[WITHER], 2025

This piece is based on the music video for HANAGATAMI by Phantom Siita. This one is of Mona, but I didn’t draw her center song cause I wanted to draw the other costumes 🫣

#phantomsiita #hanagatami #illust #illustration #ファントムシータ #もな #イラスタ
A young woman standing in a waist-high pond of red water. She’s wearing a delicate, blue, flowing, ethereal gown. The pond is surrounded by snow, and contains blue lily pads, and lotus seed pods. Falling from the sky are many flower petals. They’re floating on top of the water, and the girl is examing some that she caught falling. The flower petals seem to transition from blue to red.
May 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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[SHIVERS], 2025

An illustration of Miu from the Zoku Zoku music video.
I was really worried about how all the colors would come together for this one, but hopefully it worked out in the end 😓

#illust #illustration #phantomsiita #ファントムシータ #ゾクゾク #zokuzoku #美雨 #copic #copics #art #copicmarker
A young woman standing, and looking menacingly down at the viewer. She has a manically smiling look on her face, with wide eyes, and her hand is caressing her own neck. She’s wearing a mixture of traditional kimono, obi w/ obijime, over a turtleneck, shorts, pantyhose, and lace gloves. She’s standing in front of a facsimile of bamboo trees and tall lanterns, in front of a large round window, beyond which is nothing but fire.
April 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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[Human?], 2025
For this piece, I really wanted to go for a 60’s pulp horror manga cover look, specifically referencing Kazuo Umezu. It’s so nostalgic, even though I wasn’t alive!! 😅
#art #phantomsiita #ファントムシータ #pulphorror #darkart #illustration #illust #horrorart
An illustration of 5 girls, all in matching school-style uniforms, looking scared and rubbing away from something chasing them. Behind them is blackness and smoke, from which is emerging several large insectoid legs, along with 3 red eyes, which don’t seem to be arranged in any anatomically-logical way. The drawing is all black and white, save for the red of the eyes. It’s drawn in a retro manga style, with a lot of thin lines and cross-hatching. Down the middle, in the blackness there is text written vertically: 「人間 、辞めてみる?」, which translates to “Do you want to stop being human?”
April 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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[The Taste of a Lady], 2025
The next of my Phantom Siita pieces, this one is of Moka 💙
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#phantomsiita #ファントムシータ #copic#コピック#illust #illustration
An illustration. A young woman with straight black hair is wearing a traditional kimono. She looks to be tying a ribbon around a human heart, which is also decorated with flowers. She is smiling menacingly at the viewer. The heart is sitting on a lace doily. All around her, several ghostly hands are reaching towards her- some are holding various objects, such as cutlery, an eyeball, and a human skull. A printed version of the previous illustration.
April 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🎉 MYSTERY SALE 🎉
Starting at 2 shirts for $50, with other bundles available! 🎊
Much of my current stock will not be coming back once it’s gone 💨
If you’ve purchased from me before, I will check your order history to make sure you don’t get the same item again ✌️
Link in Bio
March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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[Otomodachi], 2024

This is the first of 8 drawings I’ll be posting, which I drew for a concert I went to last month :)
The group is called Phantom Siita, this piece is based on their song “Otomodachi”
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#phantomsiita #ファントムシータ #art #copicmarker #copics #copic #traditionalart #horrorart
A drawing of 5 girls. 4 are small ventriloquist dummies sitting limply on the ground. They all wear matching school uniforms. Above them is the floating head of the 5th girl, she is looking menacingly at the viewer, and holding her hand up, in a position similar to a puppetmaster manipulating a puppet. In the background, 8 red strings descend from the sky, coming towards the 4 puppet girls’ hands. The piece is entirely black and white, other than the red puppet strings, and some of the details on the puppets’ clothing.
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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☎️ Ring ring ☎️
March 9th is a holy day, it’s Misato Ando’s (fka LiNG LiNG) birthday!! Such a special occasion constitutes an outfit!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANDO-SAN!!
Please eat something delicious today with no guilt! 💖
A photo of a young woman at a convention booth, wearing a black t-shirt with a bright illustration on it. It’s of a girl in an overtly sparkly anime style, and it says LingLing, BiSH, Telephones, and 03.09 around her. It’s a celebration of this girl’s birthday. The woman is also wearing a white harness with bows over the shirt. Her hair is deep red, in two shoulder-length braids, with pointed, v-shaped bangs. She’s wearing a black beanie with small rabbit ears and a pink drooling mouth with sharp teeth. A mirror selfie of the same woman, but now you can see her full outfit. She’s wearing a long, midi-length white pleated skirt. She has black chunky sporty sneakers over big loose white socks. She’s carrying a black purse that looks like a rotary phone. The same woman and outdoor from before, but this time she’s removed the fake telephone from the purse “receiver” and is holding it up to her ear.
March 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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I’ll start off with today’s outfit, at Anime Crossroads!!

✨BiSH is always BiSH ✨
A mirror selfie of a woman showing off her outfit. She’s wearing an oversized red &black varsity jacket on top. Underneath is a white ringer t-shirt with big black block letters that says BiSH iS- and then is cut off by the skirt. It’s a long, straight, ankle-length black skirt with 2 white athletic stripes running down the sides. It’s tied up with a belt that’s red and repeatedly says “FRAGILE HANDLE WITH CARE”. She’s wearing black ankle boots in faux leather. She has a small, black side purse that has the BiSH logo on it. She’s wearing a black beanie hat with netting on it, in the style of a mourning veil. A second mirror selfie of the woman’s face. It’s showing her hair, makeup, and hat. Her hair is burgundy, with bangs in a pointed “v” shape, and two short braids that reach her shoulders. She’s wearing a black beanie hat with a sheet of black netting pulled down over her face, in the style of a mourning veil. She has black winged eyeliner.
February 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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If you see this, post a ghost
A lake lies surrounded by a dark forest. A young woman is rising from the water. She has long black hair floating on top of the water, spreading outwards from her. She is surrounded by an eerie, unnaturally-colored smoke. She is out of the water from her shoulders up. Her right hand is making a beckoning motion, beseeching you to come into the water with her. Underneath the water, her body is only a skeleton. Only the portion above the water has flesh. There are a few objects floating in the water with her. They are objects people would’ve worn, such as a woman’s shoe, a man’s watch, and glasses.
January 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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[CRUMBLE]
2024
This is the only commission I’ve ever taken. It was for a follower who has been supporting me for a long time, and I knew they would be comfortable with my style. I am also famously a cat lover, and felt compelled to create a tribute for a lost pet.
#art #illust #illustration #イラスト
A cat floating on a solid background. It looks like a Maine Coon with long fur and tabby markings. It is being cradled by ghostly hands, and looks as though it’s falling asleep. The cat’s body looks almost like it’s floating away in pieces, like smoke flying off of a candle. The body is half solid, half smokey. It is almost macabre. In places where the body is now missing, inside we can see a pink, fleshy interior. But there are no visible bones or organs. Surrounding the cat are streams of smoke, floating upwards in the same direction as the flesh.
December 14, 2024 at 5:38 AM
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If you see this, post a witch in a big hat ✨
#art #witch #illust #イラスト #illustration
A young woman appears to the sitting or squatting low to the ground. The background is an unnatural purple, with the silhouette of buildings and power lines behind her. Above her in the sky is a black crescent moon facing downwards. She is looking directly at the viewer with a nonchalant, almost cold expression. The whites of her eyes match the purple of the background. Her left eye is covered with an elastic eyepatch. Her visible ear is pierced three times. She has straight, black hair that reaches her chest. On top of her head is an oversized, black witch hat. Underneath the brim of the hat, the inside looks red, damp, and slightly ridged, like the inside of a mouth. The brim of the hat is lined all around with teeth. The teeth are sprouting from the brim, but pointing in various directions, sometimes seeming to face the wrong way. But all of them are long, sharp, and pointed, like fangs. In her left hand is a half-wrapped candy bar. She is holding it up to her mouth and taking a bite. Hanging from her left elbow is a plastic shopping bag that says “THANK YOU”. Her right hand is holding her knees to her chest.
November 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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[SIGNAL]
2024
“there are no more fresh starts”

#art #originalart #illust #イラスト #horrorart #objecthead #traditionalart #originalartwork #humanart #bodyhorror
A long-range view of a thin dirt road surrounded by corn fields. It appears to be sunset, but the sky is an unnatural, eerie color. Along the left of the road is a series of simple, very basic power lines. To the right of the road is a very small pull-through gas station with only one gas pump. It simply says “GAS”, and the building looks big enough to only hold one or two people comfortably. It’s unclear if the station is operational. Prominently standing in the fields are two school-aged girls, wearing school uniforms. They are probably 50 feet tall, towering over the landscape. One stands to the left, looking down at a flip phone in her hands. She looks like she’s texting. One stands on the right, with her feet standing on either side of the gas station. She is looking directly at the viewer. Both girls have satellite dishes in place of their heads. They have several satellites of various sizes sprouting over their bodies, reminiscent of radio towers you might see off the highway. In the upper left corner are two decorative text boxes. One says “Did You Hear?” In a computer-pixel typeface. The second box looks like it’s filled with TV static. There are Japanese characters in the TV static that translates to “No Signal”.
November 12, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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[PRECIOUS]
2024

“Don’t you think it’s time to get rid of that old thing?”

#originalart #traditionalart #horrorart #creepyart #copic #copics #copicmarkers #copicmarker #copicmarkerart #illust #illustration #イラスト #darkart #darkartist #macabreart #depressionart
April 19, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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If you see this post, post a redhead #art
A young woman resting on a parking barricade, in a dilapidated parking lot at night. The paint is chipping, and the surfaces are covered in old stickers. Her face is falling off of her, revealing mechanical innards. Attached to her face is several more face plates, all falling off of her body, but hastily tangled together. She is wearing multiple utilitarian packs and bags. Her pants are ripped and tattered. She has multiple bandages on her body. Around her are overgrown bushes and untrimmed weeds. On the ground next to her are boxes of collected, scavenged items, such as tools and spare parts. A young woman standing in a field of wheat that reaches up to her shoulders. The wheat and her short, wavy hair is blowing in the wind. She is wearing an Americana-style prairie dress. In her right arm, she is cradling a bundle of wheat. In the left hand, she is carrying a sickle, which reflects the light of the moon in a reverse crescent. It is nighttime, and in the sky is a bright crescent moon, framed around her head. The bottom point of the moon pierces her neck. Her head and neck are completely red, seemingly covered in dripping blood. A young woman is wearing a skin-tight body suit, with matching gloves and motorcycle helmet. She is lifting the helmet off her head. A black ichorous substance is dripping out from it. It is falling out of the helmet, and from the cracks that cover the visor. It is dripping down her face, neck and chest. In the background is a representative outline of aloe plants. There is a wall of large monstera-esque leaves. Between the leaves, strange black tentacles or tendrils can be seen weaving in and out. They are covered in red eyes and white markings. A young woman is standing amongst them, partially covered by the foliage. She’s wearing a blue wrap, reminiscent of a kimono, tied with a red cord. Another red cord adorns her wrist. Her hair is long and red, with bangs, tied in a high ponytail. She is staring directly at the viewer with a wry smile on her face.
February 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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[I Never Told You What I Do For A Living]
2024

"I tried. But it's better off this way."

#originalart #copicmarker #copicmarkers #traditionalart #horrorart #creepyart #illustration #illust #イラスト #mcr #mychemicalromance #art
January 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM