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*yelling at you like youre my mom* hey! hey!! watch me draw the same characters over and over!!
currently working on my comic 'The Murder of Colin Faust' over on patreon!
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ryan @dotswap.bsky.social · 20d
And here it is, an updated, 2025 version (or kinda 2026) of my OC lineup!! 🎯🩰🐈🌿🔪🐍👻
I mean to do these yearly, but the last one was from 2022 - so this was loong overdue.
I'm so excited to show you all their updated looks + give some insight to how their stories have progressed the last 3-4 years.
A lineup of my original characters. From left to right: Rasha: A slender figure with olive skin and long white hair, wearing punk-ish clothes. His eyes are pure black, and he holds out one hand summoning a black, slinky substance, while his other hand supports him with a cane. Aka: A chubby woman with extremely long white hair that is decorated with buttons carrying eye motifs, all the way to her ankles. Her olive-toned body sports a pastel corset with mismatching stockings, and a large ruff around her neck. She carries an enormous sword behind her, looking like a boxcutter. Aiden: A muscular individual wearing a blue shirt, khakis and birkenstocks. His hair is almost as pale as his skin, and whatever skin you can see is covered in freckles. His adoring eyes point downward to a pleased orange cat in his arms. Park: A person of average build, with peachy skin and a jet black bob. She sports colorful clothes, and plant-like tendrils spawn around her feet which she uses to lean on. These also sprout from her forehead, curling back like antlers. Her eyes are an eerie yellow. Boris: An extremely gaunt character with peachy skin and long, naturally black hair that is starting to grey. He wears a red suit adorned in black straps, and carries a bloody samurai sword. Crows fly to his shoulders, and his eyes glow an eerie yellow. Mu: A person of stocky build, peachy skin and many tattoos. He wears street style clothes in olive colors, and his short black hair has a bleached, blonde tuft in it. On his back are large, white wings. Cassidy: A skinny, dark-skinned figure in gothic, frilly attire. She carries an old book in her hands as she narrowly dodges several ghosts floating around her. Her big hair is put up in pigtails, and each textured dread is a different shade of purple and blue. She wears trad goth makeup.
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dotswap.bsky.social
🔴 don't you dare take him away
illustration of my characters boris & connor. connor lays limp and covered in blood in boris' arms that are also applying pressure to the fatal wound connor has suffered. a bloodied knife lays nearby. they are in a field of white snow, the blue shadow of a winged figure looming eerily above them. boris seems to be making sinister eye contact with the figure. description: a while back i drew boris’ last moments (a piece I’m still very proud of by the way) - but this, connor’s demise, is what starts the chain reaction for the former. There’s still some details about it I haven’t figured out, it’s supposed to be a little ambiguous in regards to what exactly happened and who did what. but the fact remains that Boris has put so much of himself into Connor, knowing damn well that all that man ever wanted was the sweet kiss of death. could he have done something different? Was he not enough? He is so mind-boggling angry, so heart crushingly sad, it’s too painful to admit defeat. and so he chooses absolute delusion, believing he can cheat death and fight God. cause why couldn’t he? spoiled brat’s gotten his way until that moment. that’s the mixed pot of emotion I tried to convey on his face a as if that’s ever gonna solve anything. He’ll be consumed by delirium, dragging Connor back home, cleaning him up and dressing him for bed as if he’s sick or sleeping - and he’ll continue to care for a corpse until the grief makes his own body give out.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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heyitsdora.com
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
dotswap.bsky.social
🔴 don't you dare take him away
illustration of my characters boris & connor. connor lays limp and covered in blood in boris' arms that are also applying pressure to the fatal wound connor has suffered. a bloodied knife lays nearby. they are in a field of white snow, the blue shadow of a winged figure looming eerily above them. boris seems to be making sinister eye contact with the figure. description: a while back i drew boris’ last moments (a piece I’m still very proud of by the way) - but this, connor’s demise, is what starts the chain reaction for the former. There’s still some details about it I haven’t figured out, it’s supposed to be a little ambiguous in regards to what exactly happened and who did what. but the fact remains that Boris has put so much of himself into Connor, knowing damn well that all that man ever wanted was the sweet kiss of death. could he have done something different? Was he not enough? He is so mind-boggling angry, so heart crushingly sad, it’s too painful to admit defeat. and so he chooses absolute delusion, believing he can cheat death and fight God. cause why couldn’t he? spoiled brat’s gotten his way until that moment. that’s the mixed pot of emotion I tried to convey on his face a as if that’s ever gonna solve anything. He’ll be consumed by delirium, dragging Connor back home, cleaning him up and dressing him for bed as if he’s sick or sleeping - and he’ll continue to care for a corpse until the grief makes his own body give out.
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
just got an ad for 'Bærskin' which seems to be an american company selling apparel by using 'BE A MAN' marketing thinking they are clever by using 'æ' instead of 'ae' to spell 'bear' in their company name
well, 'bær' is actually its own word! and it means berry. yall are calling yourself berries 🤡
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
LMAO nice
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
Calling this done because if I don't I'll keep fussing with the details forever and it's driving me crazy. 😅
Titling this one "Languish" 🦁
A possibly ephemeral lion encircles and older man, who bares his throat submissively to the lion. The lion has its teeth in the man's neck and its claws digging into the man's chest and shoulder; the man raises his hand up to caress the lion's mane.
December 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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brandtandstein.com
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
stickers make me so happy. love a silly little sticker
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Lawmakers and bible thumpers don't want you to understand the people they're demonizing are doing more good for society than they ever would
wweek.com Willamette Week @wweek.com · 11d
Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years.
Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children’s Hospital
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
🔵 post blue art!! 🔵

serving every hue here lol
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
dotswap.bsky.social
why did nobody tell me the opening/boat sequence of frankenstein happens on a royal danish ship?!!!!!!!??? WITH DANISH ACTORS SPEAKING DANISH?!!!?? HVA SÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅÅ HALLI HALLO KOM SÅ DANMARRKKKKKKK
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
oh my god new season of the real housewives of beverly hills MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Hot dang this video essay hits hard, is well researched, and aligns so well with what I think ails this world.

I feel that now, more than ever, solidarity of the 99% will truly be one of the few things that can fix this absolute mess of a techno feudal-ish world.

Mega worth the watch:
Greed is Destroying the World
YouTube video by Drew Gooden
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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carminedeville.bsky.social
How I feel drawing anything rn
A stupid meme with the text "artists when they have a drawing idea they cannot execute" surrounded by garbage stick figures in various states of violent distress
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
dotswap.bsky.social
guess i wont watch eurovision this year. yuck. the fact its taking them this long to kick them out is just disgusting
escdiscord.com ESC Discord @escdiscord.com · 15d
🔴 BREAKING: Ynet reports Israel will compete in #Eurovision 2026.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
🌿 i once had a name
illustration of my character, Park, standing with her side to the viewer. Her otherwise proper appearance is soaked in blood, vines and tendrils emerging from her skin and wrapping around her form. A sunlit forest is blurred in the background. This illustration is made to celebrate this characters 12th anniversary! 04/12/2013
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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dudkaart.bsky.social
More horror-ish vibe this time
I'm tagging this as sensitive media. I hope that it won't cause problems, but if it does, please, let me know!

[ Comm for KittehMei | tw: gore, naked ass | #art #artcommission ]
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
And here it is, an updated, 2025 version (or kinda 2026) of my OC lineup!! 🎯🩰🐈🌿🔪🐍👻
I mean to do these yearly, but the last one was from 2022 - so this was loong overdue.
I'm so excited to show you all their updated looks + give some insight to how their stories have progressed the last 3-4 years.
A lineup of my original characters. From left to right: Rasha: A slender figure with olive skin and long white hair, wearing punk-ish clothes. His eyes are pure black, and he holds out one hand summoning a black, slinky substance, while his other hand supports him with a cane. Aka: A chubby woman with extremely long white hair that is decorated with buttons carrying eye motifs, all the way to her ankles. Her olive-toned body sports a pastel corset with mismatching stockings, and a large ruff around her neck. She carries an enormous sword behind her, looking like a boxcutter. Aiden: A muscular individual wearing a blue shirt, khakis and birkenstocks. His hair is almost as pale as his skin, and whatever skin you can see is covered in freckles. His adoring eyes point downward to a pleased orange cat in his arms. Park: A person of average build, with peachy skin and a jet black bob. She sports colorful clothes, and plant-like tendrils spawn around her feet which she uses to lean on. These also sprout from her forehead, curling back like antlers. Her eyes are an eerie yellow. Boris: An extremely gaunt character with peachy skin and long, naturally black hair that is starting to grey. He wears a red suit adorned in black straps, and carries a bloody samurai sword. Crows fly to his shoulders, and his eyes glow an eerie yellow. Mu: A person of stocky build, peachy skin and many tattoos. He wears street style clothes in olive colors, and his short black hair has a bleached, blonde tuft in it. On his back are large, white wings. Cassidy: A skinny, dark-skinned figure in gothic, frilly attire. She carries an old book in her hands as she narrowly dodges several ghosts floating around her. Her big hair is put up in pigtails, and each textured dread is a different shade of purple and blue. She wears trad goth makeup.
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
me with boris 👉👈🤡
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
TREAT SERVICE WORKERS NICELY TODAY PLS!!
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
dotswap.bsky.social
in order to ease the seasonal depression that is about to hit me like a truck; i've decided to finally indulge in the witcher franchise 🐺 i knew id love it, but never had the time.
finished the 1st game a while ago, and the 2nd today. they def show their age, but the world+story is undeniably cool
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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kellyarekayyeo.com
the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
Cartoon meme of Sonic the Hedgehog (from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, Jan 1994) lying down and looking smugly at the camera with a speech bubble that reads: “I want bad art made slowly by real people AND I'M NOT KIDDING”
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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antlervel.vet
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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virgil-630.bsky.social
Because at some point during the rendering process, I started saving it literally every day, I ended up with a very detailed step-by-step
I don't want to talk about much of a details. Except that now, because of the overwork I've been having insomnia for a week now lol
#oc #stepbystep #ocsky
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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virgil-630.bsky.social
Happy Birthday
To you
Do you remember when I was holding you
In my arms?
Look how tall you are
While I'm getting shorter now
I didn't know what to give you so you can just
Take what you want

And you never seem so small
Between the people you love

#oc #originalcharacters #ocsky
The picture shows my original characters A bunch of people are hanging out in a room filled with warm sunlight. They're all celebrating, smiling, laughing, and chatting with each other In the foreground, a man and a woman are standing in an embrace. A son and his mother. They are dressed in contrasting colors. The black suit and white silk dress stand out sharply against the rest of the people in the room The man's face is tense, and his gaze expresses detachment. He is clearly uncomfortable in the situation, and the hug is more of a formality than a genuine expression of feelings. Just behind the man, his sister stands in the shadows. They are incredibly similar to each other, even in their tense gazes. She is dressed much more colorfully than her brother, but her image is also dominated by dark shades. Her left hand, in an attempt to encourage or protect, gently touches the man's shoulder One of the men in the background also watches the hugging figures
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM