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Draycu
@draycu.northsky.social
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Halito, I’m a digital and traditional artist currently living in Colorado. Please follow my work ONLY if you’re 18+! I’m a trans gal in my 30s, I love science fantasy, and I really like wyverns, rats, and mice!

🏳️‍⚧️Started HRT 11/19/21

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halito! I've been away again learning things, though I wanted to share this lil animation practice I made with Krita!

I also got inspired after watching the second episode of nabiu by terminalmontage, and I gave my mouse whiskers, heck

#art #animation
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Sure, sounds like a really nice idea to share some stuff I've been holding onto for a while now!

Here's stuff I made thinking of game ideas, dream places I would like folk to explore, also a learning project from when I just started to push myself to work with color in Paint Tool SAI, years ago!
A dreamscape of a sea shore at night, with a lone mouse sitting on a dune playing a lyre under a starry sky with two moons high above. A swing set, two clusters of crystals and a solitary lighthouse are also visible. A lunar landscape within a crater, with a distant city towering up into a mostly starless sky with three orbiting bodies in the background. One of the worlds appears to be in the process of either being made, or unmade. A piece depicting a grassy meadow with a deep blue sky and light clouds above, and another of light rays falling down onto a secluded pond deep within a forest. A surreal landscape of several towers rising from a deep blue ocean, and a mouse with a crystal tipped tail looking on excitedly toward an opened entrance to the central spire. Above rise storm clouds on the distant horizon, with a gas giant and world hanging even higher up, with a distant city in the sky and a trio of brightly shining stars in the distance.
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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halito, hello, I've been away lately learning more about working with color in procreate, here's a recent painting I made!

I hope to make more landscape pieces like this to show the kinds of worlds I dream about, and want to tell stories of!

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A sandy beach landscape painting with a flying city, coral tower and a gas giant with an orbiting asteroid space station with two other distant worlds is visible.
January 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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i decided to spend a few days painting a landscape for the new year, and I added a lil squirrel being helped out by Yarrow!

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A wyvern flies next to a tree house helping collect seeds and nuts for a little squirrel reaching out eagerly. A vast forest and mountains beyond surround the two, and a distant pod to a space ship can just be seen parked as normal atop one of the mountains.
January 3, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Restful Sleep

(something a little more cheerful, I wanted to post something I recently made of my wyvern in her underground city!)

#art #animation
December 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Letting Go

(This is something i started back in september, i’ve since had to say goodbye to one of my cats not long after losing my grandfather, I feel this piece reflects that loss well. I’m doing better now though, thankfully! I felt this was a good moment in time to share this, finally.)

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A wyvern wearing a golden collar lays on the floor of a dark room, tears at her eyes. A monitor displays two stellar objects in the background, and a window allows a view at an underground city illuminated only by glowing magic crystals.
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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following insight

(I wanted to go back to working with a dark background for this piece, it felt right)

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A wyvern looks comtemplative and imagines an attempt at communicating a message with a golden halo of a sort fixed in place behind her. An island with a castle and flowing limitless water source floats in a void beyond.
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Sneezing

(Another idea for some animation practice, I’m finally feeling better again after catching something, too!!)

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December 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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meditation

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(Animation practice I worked on)
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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I'm still enjoying making some pixel art portraits, this one is of my wyvern in her mouse form, Yarrow!

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#pixelart
A 128 by 128 pixel art depicting Yarrow as a mouse. She has a little smirk, and wears a golden collar with a broken chain.
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I’ve been working on a few portraits in Pixquare, I wanted to make some custom stuff for my playthroughs in Legend of Grimrock 2 on a whim! Here’s a lizard(kobold?) that came to mind last night,

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A kobold(lizard?) portrait made on a 128x128 canvas in Pixquare on my ipad! She is lavender colored, with blue eyes and off white horns.
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Have another sneak peak of a panel from the same page of the comic I’m making, as a treat! I really loved painting the clouds off on the horizon in this one, looks like a storm’s growing somewhere!

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A wyvern continues to fly onward, with a green landscape below and white fluffy clouds ahead in a bright blue sky. She says incredulously to her rider, “And… Who said you could join me?!”
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Here’s a lil wip of a comic I’m working on! I really love coloring bright blue skies, heck!

I’ve been busy working at my local Renaissance festival as a cashier, oh gosh it’s fun and a bit stressful. Thankfully this is the final weekend of the year!

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A wip sketch of a wyvern soaring through the bright blue sky with a fox(?) rider on her back asking, “So, WHERE did you want to fly us to, exactly?”
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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here’s a second piece I was working on and have held onto for the past few weeks! Both this and my previously shared art are inspired by a game called Noctis IV, an old space exploration game that was around before no man’s sky was a thing!

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A wyvern slumbers on a world with two pyramidal structures, one with a pod helpfully sitting atop the more distant ruin. Two kangaroo like creatures stay a safe distance from Yarrow as she sleeps, and a flock of birds flies through the partly cloudy sky as a green sun sets on the horizon.
October 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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hiya, I'm still doing okay! Work at the ren faire has been going really well so far, and I'll try to find time to catch up on the rattober art, even if that means posting stuff in November!

I wanted to make some more art of my wyvern, since being a mouse all the time gets a little confining!

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Yarrow as her wyvern form looks up at the gas giant in the night sky on a world with spiky ridge mountains surrounding a large lake. In the distance, a lander pod helpfully rests on one of the mountains connected by a tether up to a box shaped starship.
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I fell behind a bit on rattober, but I wanted to share something in the meantime while I work on catching up!

my shop has an amazing sword available for the ren faire, oh my gosh

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A small mouse yarrow balances herself atop a pommel, shouting, "See!! Perfectly balanced!" Her flower and somehow her speech is a bright pink.
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Day 3 is lake rat!

I had a lot of fun making something more spooky than usual, and it was nice making a new piece with background art! I'm gonna be working the weekend though, so I'll do my best to make art daily

this was also inspired by a pathfinder game I'm in!

#rattober2025 #rattober #art
A wizard rat looks up at a looming thing rising up from the lake beyond the pier. The text, "Day 3! Lake Rat" is visible
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Day 2 for Rattober, I had a lot of fun coloring this with the new brushes in Procreate! I gotta think of a name for the rat archer, too, I like her a lot

#art #rattober2025 #rattober
An unnamed rat gal lets an arrow loose in the early morning and strikes a bull's eye on a target off in the distance. The words "Rattober Day 2", "Accu-Rat!", and "Hehe!" are visible on the work
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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day 1 for rattober, this is the first thing that came to my mind when thinking about a friend shaped rat!

I'll do as many of these as I can, it's been fun!

#rattober #rattober2025 #art
mouse Yarrow wearing a magic hat and oversized glasses imagines the most friend shaped rat she can think of, with the text, "Most friend shaped Rat...?" *Poof!* and *Ta-da!* (all rats are friend shaped!!) visible
October 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Thought I might share another doodle I worked on at work over the weekend, I really enjoy making landscapes!

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A drawing with ballpoint pen of a house with smoke rising from it nestled by towering trees and mountains rising in the background
September 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I worked on some expression practice of my mouse and wyvern sona, I had some fun with things!

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Four images of yarrow as a mouse are visible, each with a different expression; a stern look, a surprised expression, appearing to be upset thinking something over, and a happy expression. At the bottom, yarrow as her wyvern self says, "I'm not sure what to put down here, so I'll just write this. Perfect."
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Made a lil doodle at work today, doing my best with a pen nearly out of ink, heck!

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Mouse yarrow thinks about the shading for a cube, sphere, and pyramid in the lined paper dimenion
September 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Hopefully this uploads well, I wanted to share a lil animation I've been working on trying to learn stuff!

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September 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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I wanted to share something I drew on my phone with pocket procreate, using a lil stylus and my fingers.

I recently switched from pills to injections for my HRT, and felt like drawing what it was like overcoming a fear of needles I’ve had since I was a lil kid, it’s scary but getting easier!

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Yarrow holds a syringe close to her belly, giving herself an injection. The words “First E Shot” are visible on the left side.
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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I realized I hadn't shared this art I had made for a friend of mine for a swords & wizardry game! This a ref for his fox ranger named Dizo!

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A fox ranger wearing chainmail armor, bow and quiver. The fox is squinting tiredly.
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM