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Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Here are some cool aesthetic photos I've taken recently to remind us all that life is still beautiful. It fucking sucks sometimes, but we're still here to witness the beauty.
✨️🏳️‍🌈✌️🫶🖖🏳️‍⚧️✨️

#art #photography #nature #humanity #humanartist #positivity #lifeisbeautiful #queerartist #transjoy #lgbtq

a photo of the evening sky, the colour ranging from a light pink at the top to a bluish purple on the horizon, where some very pink clouds settle behind a green gently sloping treeline; power lines cut in front of everything, matching the slope of the treeline.

a photo of a dark red & brown, fluffy, round plush pig with a large metal nose ring, wearing pink heart-shaped sunglasses, sitting in the grass, facing left toward a single white fluffy dandelion

a photo of a small raised fire pit, with two people's hands holding skewers over it, the one on the left has blue painted fingernails and is toasting a marshmallow, and the one on the right is cooking a hotdog; behind it, in the upper left corner of the photo, a corgi stares into the fire with his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

a photo of a sidewalk and safety rail lined with shrubbery at the edge of a parking lot, and beyond it the side of a large building with rows and rows of square windows

May 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I like making videos like these to show off my art. lol ✨️🍪✨️✨️

voiceover says: "This glow-in-the-dark chocolate chip cookie charm is available now on cabbagepigstudio.etsy.com ," while cutesy ukulele music plays in the background. 🎶

#handmade #smallbusiness #jewelry #goblincore #giftideas

May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Meet my newest creation, Knick-knack the clown! This is the most detailed purse I've made thus far, and my fingers are sore from sewing, but I'm so happy. (I may still give him his own hat later.) 💛❤️💙

#goblincore #clowncore #plushcore #plushies #dolls #pursecollection #clowndoll #handmade

a photo of what appears to be a stuffed goblin doll dressed as a clown, being held up by a chain attached to loops on its pants and shoulders; the goblin is a light minty green colour with big pointy ears, a white face with a red pointy nose, yellow plastic animal eyes, and an embroidered pink mouth shaped like a cartoony cat mouth; it's wearing a fullbody clown suit that's red on the left side and blue on the right, with a yellow zipper down the middle and yellow ruffles at the wrists, ankles, and neck. The background is a curtain depicting a night-time scene in a Pokemon town.

a photo of the goblin clown doll sitting in a folding chair outside; this time it's also wearing a large plush banana peel as a hat and a pair of earrings made to look like star-shaped lollipops. (They are actual people-sized earrings, so they look giant on the doll.)

May 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I made a mint goblin! :3c

He's about to be listed on Etsy, alongside the other goblins I've made.
cabbagepigstudio.etsy.com

#goblincore #goblins #plushies #dolls #handmade #smallbusiness #giftideas #plushcore #cute

a photo of a light minty green goblin plushie with big long, floppy ears that are pink inside, round yellow plastic animal eyes, a pointy nose, and is wearing an earring made out of a tiny green & orange fishing lure in its left ear. The photo has been digitally cut out and has a transparent/ no background.

May 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

We took Prototype and Red out to the park for a fun photoshoot. These are some of my favourites. :3

These two are both now listed in my Etsy shop, and I am taking custom goblin orders too. ✨️🐽✨️

cabbagepigstudio.etsy.com

#art #photography #goblincore #goblins #plushies #dolls #handmade

a photo of two plush goblin dolls surrounded by tall grass and wildflowers. The one on the left is blue with long pointy ears, a pointy little nose, and little beady black eyes; the one on the right is red with a long pig-like snout, big floppy ears, a gold hoop earring in the right ear, and yellow plastic animal eyes.

the red goblin doll is sitting up on the blue one's shoulders (both facing toward the left) to sniff some tiny white flowers on a tree branch; there's a bridge in the background on the left side

The blue goblin is standing up on the branch of a young pine tree and looking downward and to the right at the red goblin, sitting on a rock. They look very small, as the photo is zoomed out a bit.

The blue goblin (left) and red goblin (right) are sitting on a large flat stone with a stream and trees behind them. There is a large styrofoam drink cup from Sonic between them, and the red goblin appears to be holding a giant corn dog with many small bites taken out of it.

May 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I never got around to posting my red goblin here! I made him using the same pattern I designed for Prototype, but slightly modified. His head is different, and he's in a sitting position. (and I think he's cuter than his brother. lol)
#goblincore #goblins #plushie #dolls #handmade #art

an upper-torso photo of a plush goblin doll made of fuzzy red material with yellow plastic animal eyes, a long snout with a pink nose and pink inside its big floppy ears, and wearing a gold hoop earring and a plush banana peel hat

a full-body photo of the same goblin plushie sitting on a rock surrounded by trees. Now it's not wearing a hat, and its little wispy red & white hairs on top of its head are visible.

another photo of the same goblin, posed looking over the side of a bridge at some lichen growing on the metal support structure

a photo of the same red goblin plush lying face down on the couch so its buttcheeks are showing

May 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Oh, I forgot to show off my finished goblin plushie! His name is Prototype. I'm working on making him a (hopefully more attractive) brother. lol 😹✨️

#art #plushie #goblincore #goblin #doll #handmade

a photo of a blue goblin plush doll with little beady black eyes, pink pawpads on its feet and pink inside its long pointy ears, and little white whiskers on it's thin pointy nose, wearing a large yellow plush banana peel as a hat. It is not wearing any clothes and has a little indented belly button.

a close-up photo of the same blue goblin doll's face, looking toward the right, this time not wearing a hat, so the lumpy "butt"like shape of its head is visible, as well as whispy little white hairs. It has no mouth.

another photo of the same goblin doll, this time from behind, standing next to a stump with its sculpted butt crack on full display.

April 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I like to watch cartoons while I sew, so I've been rewatching Bee & Puppycat: Lazy In Space and working on this goblin plushie. (I'm almost done with their other leg, and hopefully I'll finish their head sometime today. lol)
#sewing #plushart #wip #goblincore #plushie

a photo of a half-finished plushie sitting on a messy desk. Its body is a blue humanoid form with paw hands and feet, but it lacks a head and left leg. Stuffing is poking out from where the head and leg should be.

April 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Well, I thought I would make a plushie today, but instead I ended up cracking open a bunch of old modeling clay packets that were mostly dried out and almost ready to be thrown away, and from them I began to sculpt this beautiful lady. lol
#sculpture #art #rat #mixedmedia #goblincore #petportrait

a sculpture of a rat, made with multiple rainbow colours all mixed together, sitting on an open sketchbook with other art supplies littering the background; it also has big shiny black eyes and orange squirrel teeth and appears to be looking up into the camera.

a sculpture of a rainbow rat made with multiple mixed clay colours, sitting on a windowsill, facing slightly toward the right

April 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I recently started door dashing, and today I'm going to work in clown drag because no one can stop me! 😹 (My clown dolls are coming along for the ride, too.)

#clownmakeup #clowndoll #clowning #bigtopburger #cosplay #doordash

a photo of myself, a 30-year-old white man with a scruffy beard and ponytail, wearing a matching colorful polka dot polo shirt and hat set, fried egg earrings, heart-shaped sunglasses on top of his hat, and light clown makeup consisting of a pink nose tip and yellow cheeks; facing slightly toward the right of the screen with his eyes looking toward the left, smirking.

another photo of myself in the same outfit, but this time facing the camera with my eyes wide open and lips puckered up in surprise; the backdrop behind me is a blue curtain with cartoon banana print.

a photo of 3 clown dolls, from left to right: Pomni from the Amazing Digital Circus (she wears a red & blue striped jester outfit and her eyes are like red & blue segmented wheels); a black & white jester doll with a porcelain face that's painted like cat makeup; and a simple goblin plushie that I've dressed up in a crocheted piggy birthday hat and a floral print ruffled collar.

April 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

What do y'all think of my newest goblin art? :3c

#art #digitalart #goblincore #goblins #fantasy #party #festival #bonfire

roughly drawn digital art depicting a crowd of goblins partying and dancing around a bonfire, some of them wearing costumes.

Notable individuals in the crowd include a red Goblin playing a stringed instrument, four clowns, a pirate with an eyepatch and white beard, two lovers kissing, a blindfolded goblin chugging a bottle of wine, and a drunk hillbilly type goblin wearing a kettle on their head

April 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I drew this portrait of Hayao Miyazaki years ago, but since he's trending now because of that disrespectful filter ripping off his style, I wanted to share it again. This man is one of my greatest artistic inspirations. Respect him.

#art #digitalart #hayaomiyazaki #ghibli #studioghibli #noai

a digital portrait of Hayao Miyazaki, drawn in a semi-realistic cartoon style. He's wearing a green polo shirt and black squared glasses and has a full white beard and mustache in this portrait. He is staring at the viewer with a slight scowl.

an uncoloured line-art version of the same Hayao Miyazaki portrait, with some rough sketch lines visible.

April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Lately I have been getting really into Magic the Gathering and making custom cards and tokens for it. I just ordered some card prints of these and I'm really excited to get them. :3c

#digitalart #goblincore #goblins #magic #mtg #tcg #cards #fantasyart #fantasy #art

a custom Magic the Gathering card titled "Van, Playful Goblin," which is a 5-color legendary enchantment creature with power and toughness of 3 and the following rules text:

"At the beginning of your upkeep, you may tap to reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the word goblin in its title or type. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest back into your library, then shuffle.
As long as Van, Playful Goblin is untapped, creatures you control have +1/+1."

The illustration depicts a pink-haired goblin with a pig nose playing a game of Magic the Gathering, and flavor text at the bottom reads "Why the number 3? you ask... I dunno. I just like threes."

a custom Magic the Gathering card titled "Goblin Charm Bracelet," which is an enchantment artifact with a mana cost of 3 and the following rules text:

"pay 1 and tap to sacrifice an artifact.
Whenever an artifact is sacrificed, you may add a charm counter to Goblin Charm Bracelet.
Equipped creature has +1/+X, where X equals 1 plus the number of counters on Goblin Charm Bracelet.
equip cost 1"

The illustration depicts the back of a green goblin hand with pink pawpads wearing a charm bracelet with a gold ring, a purple crystal rock, and a tiny dagger dangling from it.

an edited version of the Magic the Gathering card titled "You See A Pair Of Goblins," which is an instant with a mana cost of 2 plus one red mana, and the following rules text:

"Choose one -
•Charge Them - creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
•Befriend Them - create two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens."

The illustration has been replaced with a drawing of two goblins sitting on a couch, apparently having a conversation; the one on the left has light minty green skin, pink hair, and a pig snout; the one on the right has darker green skin, purple hair, and a beak-like snout. Custom flavor text has been added to the bottom, which reads "See, that's what I love about Star Trek..."

a custom Magic the Gathering creature token card titled "pawblin: token creature - goblin" with power and toughness of 1 and flavor text that reads "they're goblins, and they've got paws!" The illustration depicts a small goblin with light green skin and pink pawpads sitting on a bed surrounded by plushies, whike holding a plush smiling yellow mushroom in one arm and a plushie of the character Rapier Tapir from the comic "Swords" in in the other arm.

April 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

Here's some other goblin art I've worked on recently. I edited my "Watching Star Trek" digital painting to reflect Pipkin's updated design and finally finished what was for many long months an uncolored sketch of Van playing Magic.

#art #digitalart #goblincore #goblins #mtg #magic #cards #fantasy

digital painting of two goblins sitting next to each other on a couch, apparently having a conversation. The one on the left has a pig-like head and light minty green skin with pink hair and pink paw pads, and is wearing yellow shorts. The one on the right is taller and has dark blueish-green skin, purple hair and pawpads, and a beak-like snout.

mixed media digital art: a drawing of a goblin with a pig-like head, light minty green skin, and pink hair, using a wooden crate (part of the photograph backgdrop) as a table to play a game of Magic the Gathering. The goblin holds 4 cards in hand and is looking at them intently, while there is a mountain card, a forest card, and a creature card that appears to depict a blue pig on the table, next to a spilled bag of dice that is brown and fluffy and has a pawprint on it.

March 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

the reference photo vs. the finished art 🤘✨️

I drew this for a custom Magic the Gathering card I designed just for fun. lol

#art #goblincore #illustration #goblins #mtg #magicthegathering #tcg

a photo of the back of my right hand, fingers curled in a feral way, and wearing a beaded bracelet

a digital drawing of a green goblin hand with pink paw pads in a similar pose to the previous photo, and wearing a charm bracelet that has a gold ring, a purple crystal rock, and a tiny dagger hanging from it

March 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

some doodles for today :3
two yet unnamed background/side characters from pawblins - the wolfrider goblin, and the kobold from the "Midnight Picnic Society" short story (which I still haven't published because I never finished it... sorry.)

#goblincore #doodle #goblins #kobold

pencil sketch on paper of a goblin sitting and holding a tanuki plushie in their right arm and holding a card in their left hand; they're looking off into the distance to the right of the screen.

a silly little doodle of a kobold resembling a raccoon with big goblin ears, sitting on the ground wearing a poncho; it has a speech bubble that says "Nyeh!"

March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

My latest creation is a pickle/pig hybrid plushie bag! I've begun marketing more of these as "dice bags" instead of just "purses" to appeal to different groups. The dice bags and purses are actually the exact same size and functionally interchangeable. 🖖

cabbagepigstudio.etsy.com
#plush #dicebag

a photo of a plush creature bag that has a round body made of dark green fuzzy material, with stumpy little legs and a pig-like nose made of a light green fabric. It has several round bumps all over its body, and beady little black eyes. It also has a zipper on its back and a metal ring in its mouth.

a top-down view photo of the same plush creature, this time with its zipper open. The fabric inside the zipper pocket is light blue and has stylized potted plants and colorful shapes printed on it.

March 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

punk worm plushie commission 🤘🪱

#sewing #plush #goblincore #earthworm

photo of a pink plushie earth worm wearing a black leather collar with short spikes, sitting on a wooden fence next to a small metal cutout of a bird silhouette. There are tables, chairs, and trees in the background, and six rows of string lights overhead.

photo of a pink plushie earthworm wearing a spiked leather collar, sitting on top of a large rock with picnic tables and chairs, and a building with an archway and an orange "cafe" sign in the background behind it.

different angle photo of the same worm plush on the same rock, but this view has more tables in the background and a red "little free library" box

February 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM

Van LeHam

@cabbagepig.bsky.social

I made this plush magpie purse as a Valentine's gift for my wife, and we're both really proud of it! She named it Alex and brings it everywhere, including to sleep. 😹🫶✨️💛
#sewing #plush #purse #bird