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✨ 2D Animator, Character Designer and Pixel Artist :>

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Happy Kirby Air Riders day 💫

[ #kirby | #nintendo | #art ]
Digital watercolour illustration of Kirby Air Riders fanart, the artwork shows a variety of characters riding various machines in the fictional floating island city - Skyah. The character closest is Kirby, he is waving and rides a warp star, Cappy rides in the wagon star looking panicked, Rick is running across one of the city building walls, King Dedede rides on the road in the wheelie bike, Meta Knight rides on the shadow star with his wings out whilst holding a sword and Starman is gliding through a ring in the winged star and a mysterious figure stands on the top of a building slightly hidden. Various power ups are floating across the city.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Pumpkaboooooo ✨

[ #pokemon | #animation | #art ]
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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waiting on the Kirby Air Riders demo to go live so I can get some more background references 😂
Wip illustration sketch of Kirby Air Ride fanart, the artwork shows a variety of characters riding various machines in a city. The character closest is Kirby he is waving and rides a warp star, Cappy rides in the wagon star looking panicked, Rick is running across one of the city building walls, King Dedede rides on the road in the wheelie bike, Meta Knight rides on the shadow star with his wings out whilst holding a sword and Starman is gliding through a ring in the winged star and a mysterious figure stands on the top of a building slightly hidden. Various power ups are floating across the city.
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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(WIP) I miss Kirby Air Ride[ers] ✨
Wip illustration sketch of Kirby Air Ride fanart, the artwork shows 4 variations of Kirby riding various machines in a city with a volcano in the background. The Kirby closest to the front is waving and rides a warp star, one rides in the swerve star on a building holding a sword, one rides on the road in the wagon star and one is gliding through a ring in the winged star. Various power ups are floating across the city.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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[2023] Shrimpku is,,,Shrimply Lovely ♡🦐
Absolutely adore this snowmiku design by ricedeity

[ #pixelart | #vocaloid ]
Pixel art illustration of Shrimpku created by ricedeity, which is a fan Hatsune Miku design created for the Snow Miku (2024) costume competition. This Miku design has awhite and orange chef themed outfit, holds a cleaver, has a chef hat with a melting block of butter over it and her hair is styled in large blue twintails that are in plaits, the blue then goes into an orange gradient that form into shrimp tails.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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💫
A pixel art cartoon illustration of a Black witch dressed in emo clothing as she rides the London underground. She's holding a broken broom in her left hand and holding onto the carriage rail with her right hand. A small, white child sits on a carriage seat and points at the witch, a speech bubble is displayed over the kid with the script text "Are you a witch!?". A pixel art illustration of a child holding a torn teddy bear. From this tear an evil, bear themed spirit with it's ghostly exposed heart looms over the him holding out it's paw above the child's head who looks up in fear. Pixel art illustration of the UNDERTALE characters Frisk and Chara. Both are stood on golden flower petals, mirroring each other's pose holding Flowey with one hand whilst being wrapped and tangled in vines. On the left is Frisk who has a stick in their other hand, they appear dishevelled with leaves and twigs in their their and their jumper is torn. Chara, on the right, is holding knife instead. Vines are growing throughout the background with 6 hearts tangled in them at the top. A beam of light shines down on them both and a separate heart is shown in the center. Under this heart are two speech bubbles, the one above Frisk displays "MERCY" with a shine on the bubble. The One above Chara displays "FIGHT. At the bottom of the illustration is the game logo "UNDERTALE". Pixel art character who is themed after a crab with an annoyed expression. The character has medium-light skin, red pigtail-like crab claws for hair with spikes, wears a red bandana around her neck, a black top, an open green jumpsuit with a bag fastened to her right leg and brown buckled boots. The character snaps the fingers in right hand, the word "snap" is displayed next to it. In her left hand she holds a wrench. The background is yellow, at the top and bottom are two black rectangles with the text "CRABBY" spready out along it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Style test for an animated version 👀?
Single continuous line drawing of the Pokemon Pumpkaboo with the colours orange and brown blocked out against it's body.
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Going through my wip folder and found this oc animation from 2019 💫

#pixelart
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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[2020] some squids! 🦑
+ an octo🐙

[ #pixelart | #splatoon ]
Pixel art illustration of a variety of splatoon characters, from left to right: Boy inkling (John) with an inkbrush, Inkling holding a balloon wearing a mascot costume, octoling girl in a grizzco outfit holding a golden egg, girl inkling (Kaori), girl inkling with a tri closher on her head.
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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(WIP) for the Johto redrawn collab
wanted to make this cabin really feel as chaotic as I imagine it to be

#pixelart
Pixel art wip illustration of a redrawing of the Aqua Cabin 7 room for the Johto redrawn pokemon collab. The room features a variety of items from beds, chairs and a table, a painting of Kyogre as well as a family which consists of a dad with his three children. A small window is displayed in the right which displays the original room from the pokemon crystal game.
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pumpkaboo 🎃💫
This was such a fun way to warm up for the day and try the new Procreate brushes!
Single continuous line drawing of the Pokemon Pumpkaboo
November 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I also have a very festive 3-colour ver 🎃 as well, as much as I wanted to stick purely to 1-bit the colours were calling
2 colour (purple, red, orange) pixel art illustration of two characters: Dr Frankenstein Jr and her Monster - inspired by the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley but as a pre-school retelling. The illustration shows the monster from shoulder up, lifting a child - Dr Frankenstein Jr up above it's head as she stands in it's hands lifting a cookie up. She has large hair in uneven pigtails and wears and oversized, torn lab coat with a lollipop in her pocket. The Monster has stitching across its head with bolts on either side and eyes and ears constructed from different bodies.
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The cookie quest was...a success! 🍪

[ #pixelencore (v19) | #pixelart | #art ]
1 bit (green and blue) pixel art illustration of two characters: Dr Frankenstein Jr and her Monster - inspired by the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley but as a pre-school retelling. The illustration shows the monster from shoulder up, lifting a child - Dr Frankenstein Jr up above it's head as she stands in it's hands lifting a cookie up. She has large hair in uneven pigtails and wears and oversized, torn lab coat with a lollipop in her pocket. The Monster has stitching across its head with bolts on either side and eyes and ears constructed from different bodies.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The return of...Dr Frankenstein Jr!! 🧪
She's always cooking up new chaotic plans

[ #art | #ocsky | #characterdesign ]
Digital art illustration of the artist's oc "Dr Frankenstein Jr" inspired by the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley. Instead, Dr Frankenstein is depicted as a young child eating a blue lollipop, with two uneven ginger pigtails, freckles, green eyes and light skin. She wears an traditional school uniform that consists of a white shirt, green jumper, grey skirt, white socks and black shoes. Over this she wears an oversized lab coat.
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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(WIP) 🏵️🌻 Yellow Flowers of fate🌻🏵️

#pixelart
Screenshot from the app Pixquare showing a pixel art illustration wip of the video game characters Mary and Chara from the games Ib and Undertale respectively. Mary is knelt, smiling, as she holds Chara's knife towards Flowey who she holds in her other hand. Mary has long blonde hair, wears a green dress, has light skin and blue eyes. Chara stands, looking mischevious, their body and legs are finalised but their body and arms are sketched out holding Mary's knife and rose. Chara has short brown hair, light skin and has red eyes. A small window is displayed on the right with the same character but to a 100% scale.
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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[2024] Are you brave enough to explore the Friedrich Estate? 💫💀

Bringing this back for the spooky season, my part done for a larger Halloween collab where you can explore 24 rooms done by a variety of pixel artists!

[ #pixelart | #FinalGirlLiz ]
October 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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[2019] Happy Splatoween!!

[ #splatoon | #offthehook | #splatoonart ]
Digital art illustration of the Splatoon character's Pearl and Marina. They are both dressed as vampires with large capes and waistcoat that correspond to their respective colours pink and green. Pearl sits on a Pumpkin carved like Judd, with a smaller pumpkin carved like Lil Judd beside it. Marina stands with her arms open with her cape in each hand making it appear like large wings. The background features leafless trees, fog and a full moon.
October 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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(WIP) I haven't really done 1 bit pixel art before and it's a lil scary but perfect for the season!! 😈
Although I'm fighting not to add more colours lmao 😭

#pixelart
Screenshot from the app Pixquare showing a pixel art wip of two characters: Dr Frankenstein Jr and her monster - inspired by Dr Frankenstein as a pre-school retelling. The illustration shows the monster from shoulder up, lifting a child - Dr Frankenstein Jr up above it's head as she stands in it's hands lifting a cookie up. She has large hair in uneven pigtails and wears and oversized lab coat with a lollipop in her pocket. The Monster has stitching across its head with bolts on either side and eyes and ears constructed from different bodies.
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The B-B-Bright side of the dark side 🎶🌝

[ #pixelart | #rubygloom | #art ]
Pixel art illustration of 3 Ruby Gloom characters: Misery (a banshee) who stands holding a staff with a black flower and skull attached to the end, Ruby Gloom (a human) who stands on the heel of her left foot with one arm down with one arm gesturing out and Iris (a cyclops) who stands tip toe on her right leg as she raises one arm up in the air from left to right. The characters are against a green, night scene background which features sparkling stars and a large, full moon with a smiling face on it. On the left and right side of the illustration are two red curtains.
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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(WIP) Gotta bring Ruby Gloom back for the spooky season ✨

#pixelart
Screenshot from the app Pixquare showing a pixel art illustration wip of 3 Ruby Gloom characters: Misery, Ruby Gloom and Iris from left to right.
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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PaciFrisk 😌
#undertale
Screenshot from the app Procreate of a sketch drawing of the UNDERTALE character Frisk holding a stick. They are disheveled with twigs and leaves in their hair, their jumper has holes in it and they are missing a shoe.
October 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I originally created this character in 2019 and really enjoyed the design process! it's a shame to throw designs away when you reach the "final". Like an unwritten rule that somehow you're not allowed to go back to. For this character, multiple designs lead to multiple stories with diverging...
Collage of photographs of three traditionally drawn illustrations. The top left illustration features an ink drawing of Dr Frankenstein Jr and her Monster who holds her up in one hand, whilst Dr Frankenstein Jr holds a cookie jar. The Monster is made from a variety of different people sewn together and Sr Frankenstein Jr is depicted as a young child with an oversized coat and ponytail. The top right illustration is a mid body pencil sketch of a different Dr Frankenstein Jr design with two uneven pigtails as she crosses her arms and holds a lollipop. The lowest illustration features a new, fully body Frankenstein Jr design who has curly hair in two, low afro puffs with tape measures in it. She wears goggles and a lab coat whilst the Monster is represented as a doll made from multiple other toys. The text displayed is: instead of a "monster" it's a doll made of other dolls...The pull chord makes the toy GROW..."Dr Frankenstein Jr also grows...she changes crazier...Fusion of science x sewing.
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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(WIP) Dr Frankenstein Jr 🍪
#pixelart
Screenshot from the app Pixquare showing a pixel art wip of two characters: Dr Frankenstein Jr and her monster - inspired by Dr Frankenstein as a pre-school retelling. The illustration shows the monster from shoulder up, lifting a child - Dr Frankenstein Jr up above it's head as she stands in it's hands lifting a cookie up. She has large hair in uneven pigtails and wears and oversized lab coat with a lollipop in her pocket. The Monster has stitching across its head with bolts on either side and eyes and ears constructed from different bodies.
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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[2024] Your local magpie merchant...all items sourced... responsibly....and totally not cursed...

[ #pixelencore (v3) | #pixelart ]
Pixel art illustration of a anthropomorphic magpie in a large, green and red hooded cloak with gold chains that wrap around the top of their head and shoulders. The magpie covers their face with a spiked mask with horns and they eye hole is covered with bars which reveal many eyes hidden behind it. With their right wing, which is covered in gold rings, they hold open their cloak to reveal a variety of jewels, in the center of the offerings is a glowing red jewel.
October 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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✏️ Kitty artist takes down a generative "ai impromptster" 🤖

[ #pixelencore (v18) | #pixelart ]
Pixel art illustration of a game mockup that features a white, art themed cat that wears a red beret, is covered in paint and wields a black and yellow pencil sword and has an eraser themed shield. The cat is in a decaying forest environment fighting a generative ai robot that is made from an old computer screen which displays the text "GENERATE". The screen is broken, revealing wires and liquid which the creatures uses to move and this liquid ooze is poisoning the environment, corrupting the scene by making the green forest floor grey. Multiple limbs with extra digits stick out from the robot as well as a warped kitty that pokes it's head out of the top, trying to mimic the kitty artist. Various UI elements are displayed around the screen, in the top left is a colour wheel that has the word "MAX" inside of it with an art palette to the left that has hp hearts inside with 2 out of the 3 not at full health. There is a boss hp bar above the generative robot that is cracked, above this sits the text "AI IMPROMPTSTER". At the bottom of the screen is an artist toolkit that has the word "TOOLS" followed by a pencil, brush, pen and a question mark with the numbers "1,2,3,4" under each tool respectively.
October 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM