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Catie R ✰
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Catie • She/Her • Freelance Artist And Illustrator • ✰ Available For Work! ✰ • catierowley.com • crowles90@gmail.com • c-rowlesdraws on tumblr
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beef tallow for your face!!! they dumped cockroaches on this man!!! CELEBRITIES LOVE OUR CELLPHONE RADIATION-BLOCKING STICKER! These definitely aren’t scams!
a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Try Forge - Buy 2 balms, get 4 free. Act fast, stock only lasts until midnight”. The ad shows a cluttered Amazon page for a skincare product in a jar, with “Excellent 4.7/5 - 18250+ trusted reviews” circled and overlaid text reading “MASSIVE Black Friday SALE - Buy 2, Get 4 FREE - SAVE $230”. More overlaid text reads “ Achieve visibly youthful skin with Beef Tallow Formula” a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Carpe - Carpe provides dermatologist tested, smarter sweatcare w/ solutions for anywhere you sweat”. The ad shows a man lying down in a narrow enclosed box facing away from the viewer, with cockroaches and sawdust being poured in on him through holes in the top of the box. Presumably, he is sweating. Overlaid text reads “Keep watching to see his reaction (insane)” a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Bodywell - Reduces Absorbed Cell Phone Radiation By 80%”. The ad shows a white person’s hand holding up an iphone with a square gray sticker on the back. The sticker bears the Bodywell logo and an image of an SD chip. Overlaid text reads, “Dude, everybody in Beverly Hills has those” a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Bodywell - Reduces Absorbed Cell Phone Radiation By 80%”. Continuing from the last screenshot, overlaid text reads, “and he said that a famous doctor just found”, with an overlaid screenshot from an online article, reading “Radiation from mobiles may lead to brain damage / by TIM UTTON, Daily Mail / Radiation from mobile phones may cause brain tissue damage, a two-year study has found. Scientists discovered that emissions from headsets affect the delicate make-up of cells in blood vessels, and could be a health hazard to regular users of the UK’s 50million mobile phones. The radiation might disable a safety barrier in the body which protects the brain from harmful substances in the blood, they believe. It is the first time scientists have used cells from human blood vessels rather than rats, bringing researchers closer to the truth about long-term mobile phone usage.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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up sick last night & couldn’t sleep so i drifted along the greasy river of youtube shorts for a while and… I had not known how dogshit and/or insane ALL the ads are now (a thread of incredulous screenshots)
a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Photo Revive AI - Convert pictures and generate vivid and alive video”. It’s an AI-animated, colorized version of an old photo of two soldiers sharing a cigarette. a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Photo Revive AI - Convert pictures and generate vivid and alive video”. It shows the app’s logo, with the tagline “Alive Again”. a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Ziella - Creating meaningful moments with our range of unique gifts”. The ad shows a closeup of an unsettlingly smooth man’s face, as though taken by a cellphone video in selfie mode, with tiktok style overlaid text reading “I found divorce papers hidden in my wife’s drawer 💔 😞” a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Bespoke Post - Inspire the Chef in Your Life with Gifts from the Bespoke Post Chef Collection”. It shows someone stamping a sort of hand-axe into a veggie pizza in an open cardboard box. Overlaid text reads, “THIS PIZZA AXE CUTS THROUGH THICK OR THIN PIES PERFECTLY”. There is also a small picture of a rugged, fashionable sneaker layered over the ad, with “view” underneath it.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Quote with your yellow art! 🧈
🎨 a digital illustration of a large gnoll (anthropomorphic hyena) with broad shoulders and a fluffy mane. He has albinism: his fur is cream-colored with faintly-visible spots, and his eyes and nose are pink. He is smiling down at the mortar and pestle he's using, and sitting cross-legged on a striped blanket. He is adorned with bracelets and jewelry and has leaves in his fur. There are more ritual items on the ground around him, including a sage bundle, a hollow bone, and bowls of herbs and seeds. This was a commission from 2022!
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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YES ohh my god I feel insane when people go "there are discords!" when this topic of the death of dedicated fandom/community spaces online comes up. Joining a fandom discord feels like crashing a party completely unprepared for the vibes... I hate feeling forced to be this GIF all the time!!
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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yo wow what the ACTUAL fuck
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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psssshhhhhh this “online influencer” thing is ez pz
a screenshot of a tumblr text post by me (c-rowlesdraws.tumblr.com). The header shows my username and that the post was made 3 hours ago. The body of the post reads, “you see, a “spoon” is like a smaller bowl that you dip into the big bowl to bring the wet food right to your mouth”. The post is tagged “#soup instructions”. It has 253 notes.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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used the halloween season (I promise really did draw this in October) as an excuse to finally draw some fanart for Midsommar, a movie about a bereaved young woman on a life-changing trip to a rural commune in Sweden! Ask yourself: do you feel held?
🎨a digital illustration styled to look like a painting on a whitewashed wood board wall. The painting centers Dani, the main character of the film Midsommar, dressed in a heap of flowers and a four-pronged flower crown, with a wide an unsettling grin on her face. She is flanked by the triangular yellow ritual building and the flower-decorated maypole from the film, with a stylized background of a green field, round trees swirled with colors, and a blue sky with puffy cartoon clouds. In the middle of Dani's flower-slug body, in a yellow circle, is the rune seen painted on the inside of the ritual building.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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went to new hampshire today, entered a corn maze, and escaped the corn in time to make it to Haunted Overload! Halloween is my favorite season. 🎃
a white woman with short brown hair and glasses (me!), holding a quart cup of lemonade, dressed in green overalls and a floral blouse, peeks cautiously out from a wall of dry yellow corn stalks giant pumpkin sculptures and smaller real jack-o-lanterns with glowing orange lights inside line a path through a forested haunt at night, while purple lights illuminate a spooky castle facade and other structures.
October 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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a few more pictures: some very good graffiti and a couple shots of the sign I made! #NoKings
a picture of a concrete slab in Boston Common, with a spray-painted stenciled message reading “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” Boston Common: my hand-drawn sign reading “NO KINGS, NO ICE” with the Statue of Liberty’s arm holding out her torch, melting the word ICE stylized to look like melting ice blocks in a puddle of water. The sign is propped up against a tree with the sunlight shining through the leaves. my hand-drawn sign reading “NO KINGS, NO ICE” with the Statue of Liberty’s arm holding out her torch, melting the word ICE stylized to look like melting ice blocks in a puddle of water
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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today was a good day in Boston! #NoKings
Boston Common: a man dressed as the red power ranger strikes a pose in front of six people each holding signs that spell: L O V E + a heart Boston Common: two protestors hold beautifully hand-painted signs. One has a swaddled baby, with scissors about to cut the cord of a medical device attached to it, with text reading “STOP HEALTH CARE CUTS”. The second sign shows a brown-skinned family of a dad, mom, and son hugging each other, with text reading “PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS”. Boston Common: a protest sign propped against a tree, reading “When you ban books before you ban guns, you’ve admitted you’re more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying”, with a crowd in the background. Boston Common: protestors standing on the lower tiers of a very tall monument, with a person in an inflatable t-rex costume dancing in the foreground.
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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as the salmon returns to its ancestral spawning grounds, so too do I return to #Animorphs posting. I found these Aximilis in an old WIP folder and finished them up. Most convincing normal human boy ever!
🎨three digitally-drawn busts of Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill from the Animorps series by KA Applegate, drawn in a flat, comic book style. He is in his human morph, as imagined by me: an androgynous-looking teenager with a mop of cinnamon-colored curls, medium-brown skin, and hazel eyes, dressed in a tan shirt under a blue hoodie. The first drawing shows a surprised expression; the second, Ax chewing on a hoodie string with a focused expression, and the third, looking up inquisitively.
October 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you.

The Shining (1980)
The Thing (1982)
REC (2007)
Glorious (2022)
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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celebrate hot soup weather with me, with this drawing of some completely normal hot pot. 🍲
🎨 a digital drawing of a hot pot pot of the kind that sits in the table, with a divider separating two kinds of broth: a red, spicy one, and a white, herbal one. Various ingredients, with little arms and legs, sit in and around the pot: a cluster of shimeji mushrooms, fish cakes and rice cakes on skewers, a prawn, baby bok choi, a slice of beef, and a chicken egg holding a quail egg by the hand.
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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i had a vision: www.tumblr.com/c-rowlesdraw...
🎨 a digitally-painted sketch of a sea otter-shaped lamp holding a scallop-shaped lightbulb in a depression in its belly
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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oohhh it’s adorable!! Its nubby texture reminds me of a soy sauce rice cracker.
a photograph of a package of Himemaru brand soy sauce rice crackers, next to a small bowl of the same. They are golden brown, with a bumpy texture.
October 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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a portrait of Misty, in a sort of art nouveau-inspired style. I love her. #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart
🎨 a full-body painting of Misty, a character from the Critical Role campaign Age of Umbra. She is a carved stone sculpture of a tall, veiled woman in a long, flowing classical gown, with four pairs of stone wings. She is half-seated on a stone plinth, feeding bluebirds from a bowl of seeds she's holding in one hand. Her left foot is propped on a broken stone urn. Blue flowers, forget-me-nots, bloom around her feet. She is framed by a gothic stone archway.
September 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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this is my cat Perilla Pickle!
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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a good kid and her best friend who she found in the sewer. #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart
🎨digital fanart of Adelia Pruitt and Skreev from the ttrpg webshow and podcast Critical Role's Age of Umbra campaign. The art style is sketchy and scratchy. Adelia is a pale nine-year-old girl drawn with simple, cute features, wearing a torn and stained black and purple dress and holding a doll wearing a similar dress. She is gently holding two fingers of a much taller, more menacing figure: Skreev, a pale, lean human with a hunched posture and an unsettling grin. He's dressed in torn black trousers and has metal rings pierced through the skin of his chest and upper arms.
September 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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a friend encouraged me to give #criticalrole a listen, so I’ve been listening to Age of Umbra while remembering how to draw! This moment between Misty and Adelia was so cute.
🎨 a two-panel comic of Adelia and Misty from episode 5 of Critical Role: Age of Umbra. In the first panel: Misty, a stone statue shaped like a tall woman, reaches above her head to touch a metal cage in which Adelia, a small, pale human girl in a fancy dress, is sitting. Adelia looks down curiously at her. In the second panel: Adelia smiles and reaches through the cage to hold two of Misty’s fingers in her hand.
September 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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baby cat?? all squarshed… is that comfortable????
a photo of a dilute tabby-tortoiseshell cat, dozing on a rumpled yellow blanket on a green couch surrounded by pillows. The cat has folded her body in half like a shrimp, her upper body mashed against a pillow with her forelegs extended. a photo of the same cat, deeply asleep in almost the same pose, with her little face buried between both fully-extended forelegs.
September 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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does Major Kira Nerys of Star Trek Deep Space 9 count? She is not of literature, but she is a major who does not suck.
a screenshot, cropped from the shoulders up, of Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actress Nana Visitor. She is a white woman with big brown eyes and short brown hair, and wrinkly nose makeup indicating that she is a space alien.
September 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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read a blog post about Solanin that spoiled the ending and wow if that didn’t nail one of my deepest personal anxieties. I should probably read this manga.
an ink and grayscale drawing of Meiko, a character in Inio Asano’s manga Solanin. She has shoulder-length black hair and a melancholy smile, and is drawn in a loose, delicate art style against a dense poster collage backdrop.
September 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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sketchbook page: alien desert moon horse, and alien desert moon horse girl.
🎨 a ballpoint pen sketch on white paper, colored in roughly with mostly yellow, purple, and blue markers. A girl with short, choppy hair, goggles, and baggy clothing sits astride a hairless, bipedal creature with a wormlike neck and toothy starfish-like “face”. The creature resembles a plucked ostrich and also has some clawed small limbs folded in front. The characters are standing in a stony desert landscape with a few structures silhouetted in the distance. In the sky above are a large gas giant, the sun, and some orbiting wreckage.
July 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Perilla & I are enjoying some Vermont magic this 4th of July weekend 🌲✨👍
July 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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home from work and about to watch the Gaslight District pilot for the third time WAHOO
Breadhead from Glitch Productions’ “The Gaslight District”, a being with an enormous loaf of sandwich bread for a head, two big googly eyes, and a wide-open, horribly toothy mouth, holding a gleefully deranged Mel, a ginger-haired human girl, in one hand as though he’s about to take a big chomp out of her.
April 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM