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Naomi Ardys
@naomiardys.bsky.social
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Author and artist behind Hush (2018) and The Alkaline Earth (2019). Slowly figuring out this whole social media thing again.

https://naomiardys.com/
https://thealkalineearth.com
https://hushcomic.space
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with every breath that I take, I feel like I've won --
-- you're my key to survival

#naomiartys #alkearth #webcomics #adoledeleveque #lloydhenderson
a greyscale comic page showing Lloyd trying to comfort Adolede as she cries, overwhelmed and frustrated. The lyrics to Secondhand Serenade's "Awake" float in the white space, reading: "and if it's a hero you want, I can save you, just stay here"
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
naomiardys.bsky.social
the waters closed
above her face

with many a ring

#naomiartys #alkearth #webcomics #adoledeleveque
drawing of adolede laying in shallow water, her eyes drifting closed. Ripples cross over her, distorting her silhouette. Her eyes glow with magic, and a large bloodstain is growing in the water around her stomach.
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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i did a #mermay....... one (1) mermay...... i'm not dead and idk when i'll be able to start comic again but let me tell you buddy i'm thinking about my beautiful girls 100% of the time

#naomiartys #alkearth #webcomics #adoledeleveque #conniesionan
a drawing of connie and adolede as mermaids. Connie is holding a book which is falling apart in the water, and adolede is looking at the shreds of paper with a frown.
June 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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// turns me to gold in the sunlight //

#naomiartys #andreabellatris #hemodynamic #manticore #furry
a drawing of Andrea, a female manticore with a mane. Choleric humors cover her wings, making them large and strong enough to carry her into the sky. But her expression as she roars is painful and scared, showing that there is a price to this technique
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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always cunning and full of tricks

#naomiartys #nikblaylock #hemodynamic #furry #jackelope
a drawing of Nik, a skinny anthro jackelope wearing round glasses. he looks over his shoulder at the viewer, but his glasses are reflecting a red light and hiding his expression. He is holding a pistol that has a karambit blade at the end of the grip. a cloud of smoke billows around him, and behind his head there is a complex hemolytic circuit that glows like a halo.
February 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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you are part of a machine you are not a human being

#naomiartys #OCsky #ocart #art #flashpoint #teresaseong
a drawing of Teresa, a young Korean woman, holding up her hands in a pose reminiscent of a classical religious figure, but she's making the ASL signs for the letters F and U. She's scowling at the viewer, but looking slightly to the side defensively. Bright green computer text full of nonsense runes streams up from her hands, and her hair hangs upwards as if she's flipped upside down.
January 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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a 2016 era commission i did for Robbie of our very good gorls having a totally normal one :) lol

#naomiartys #OCsky #art #ocart #hushcomic #machi
a flat color illustration of Little pulling a giant fish on a fishing line while Machi helps haul it out of the water with her bare hands
January 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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// i sold my soul for this? //

#naomiartys #art #ocart #ithiano
January 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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ANOTHER DREAMWORKS TROLLS ART I NEVER POSTED.... pash (the orange troll) is mine but i feel so bad i can't even credit the person who made Basil because i don't remember their name or URL 😭 if u were in the troll hole discord circa 2015 and still know them...

#naomiartys #trolls #art #OCart #fanart
a drawing of two fan-trolls. Basil, a male troll with a lion-like tufted tail and dreadlocks, is holding Pash, a female troll with drooping brown hair and tan lines on her hands from gardening gloves. He's swinging her around excitedly.
January 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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no snake can show me anything i aint already seen

#naomiartys #pipersolitude #art #OCart #flashpoint
a drawing in black, white, and red. Piper is holding an open bottle of wine labelled "EDEN" and staring at the viewer with a dull, resentful expression, her face and body half-cast in stark shadow. Her scars are visible through the shadows as well as the light.
January 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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oh some more old hush stuff! i'm still really into the fabric in the first pic ☺️ and the second pic is cute but uh. i drew it after my computer bit the dust and i didn't know if i was gonna be able to get my life's work off of it before i tossed it, so it brings up complicated feelings #naomiartys
a sketchbook drawing of the little mermaid holding the unconscious and drowning prince, looking at him in fear a sketchbook drawing with digital colors showing the six princesses from Hush
January 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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// 'cuz looking for heaven found the devil in me //

#naomiartys #art #OCsky #flashpoint #benjackson #pipersolitude #alastairsergei #aishadaring #floriography
a drawing of Ben, a Black man with bleached hair. he's curled up in an uncomfortable pose, and his legs are artistically severed, showing a bloodless cross section of the bones and muscle. behind him, there are sunflowers and carnivorous pitcher plants. A banner that curls around them says, "and it's hard to dance with a devil on your back" a drawing of Piper, a white woman with ash brown hair and extensive scarring over her body. she's curled up in an uncomfortable pose, covering her eyes, and her arms are artistically severed, showing a bloodless cross section of the bones and muscle. behind her, there are chrysanthemums and venus flytraps. A banner that curls around them says, "and given half the chance, would i take any of it back?" a drawing of Alastair, a dark-skinned italian man with auburn hair. he's curled up in a self-soothing pose, and his head is artistically severed, showing a bloodless cross section of the bones and muscle. behind him, there are delphiniums and carnivorous bladderwort plants. A banner that curls around them says, "it's a fine romance, but it's left me so undone" a drawing of Aisha, a Black woman with long micro dreadlocks. she's curled up in a self-soothing pose, and her waist is artistically severed, showing a bloodless cross section of the bones and muscle. behind her, there are blue roses and carnivorous sundew plants. A banner that curls around them says, "it's always darkest before the dawn"
January 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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college era #selfportraits

#naomiartys
a self portrait of the artist. her chest is covered by a glowing red heart, and a flowing gossamer skirt extends from her waist. she is smiling and her eyes are closed a portrait of a monster woman made up of several different carnivorous plants a portrait of the artist as a woman made of clay, cracking apart around a keyhole in her chest, the fragments held together by gold ribbons. her eyes are hollow holes in her face. a portrait of a grey, emaciated woman who has covered herself in paints and glitter but seems unsatisfied by it
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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some more merms :) really fun how you can see my confidence improved from the first pic (drawn before starting the comic) to the second pic (idk exactly but sometime in the middle of the comic)

#naomiartys #mermaid #webcomic #OCsky
a drawing of the little mermaid and her 5 sisters under the water. above them, a fisherman's boat passes by. drawing of the little mermaid and the prince in a mermaid form swimming together
January 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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early visdev pages for Hush :) i wanted to do mostly warm colors for land/humans and mostly cool colors for the mermaids/ocean settings, as well as keping the little mermaid's clothes muted as she is hiding her true self 😔

#naomiartys #mermaid #webcomic #OCsky
a drawing of the little mermaid from Hush, looking bashful a sketch page of the little mermaid, showing her markings and a few expressions. the design is slightly different from the final design in the comic. a sketch page of the little mermaid's human form, a Black woman with a huge cloud of bright blue hair. in one of the drawings, her hair has been braided into long braids. a sketch page of the prince from Hush in a few different brightly colored outfits.
January 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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despite its flaws this still kinda slaps and it was the first pic i ever drew where i remember really understanding what i was trying to do with piper's hair (which changed my approach to hair in general)

it's based on a text game i played at the time called NOLA is Burning :)

#naomiartys #OCsky
January 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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👀 i'm trying to be more active on this account so it's time to post in The Artshares!!! I'm Naomi and i make comics!!!! and also some other stuff? my page is mostly posting my backlog from the tumblr days of yore right now but i post new stuff here and there when i have it :)
an old meet the artist meme that mostly still applies except i'm 29 now lmao drawings of Adolede and Connie from The Alkaline Earth in their original style next to drawings of them in my usual slightly more realistic style drawings of Piper, Aisha, Alastair, and Ben, plus a lineup showing their heights, and the same lineup but in a pixellated style drawing of lloyd, adolede, and connie from The Alkaline Earth, surrounded by guards and looking up as Natvia's shadow falls across them
January 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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i'm finally. finally. after 7 years. i FINALLY have the knowledge necessary to color-correct Hush for print without having to recolor it from the ground up. idk how long it'll take as it's still not a FAST process, but faster than manually recoloring 😵‍💫

#webcomic #naomiartys #littlemermaid #art
the cover of Hush with the colors corrected for print the original color cover for Hush
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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awwwww i never uploaded this! it's still one of the only pixel art things i've ever done that i actually liked (and still like!)

for someone who can hear people's actual thoughts, alastair should really have less social anxiety 😂

#naomiartys #pixel #flashpoint #alastairsergei
January 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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#meetthewebcomic The Alkaline Earth follows Adolede Leveque, a young lady with no memory of her life before she arrived at Castle Arkhov. She hates to take anyone's word for anything, but it's a long road to remember who she is, and longer to decide where she's going.

thealkalineearth.com/about/
the cover of the alkaline earth, showing Adolede holding two journals. One is new and nicely bound, the other is worn and ragged. the first page of the alkaline earth. adolede's spirit floats in a void, surrounded by red magic that binds her arms and worms its way into her eyes and ears. the next page. Adolede wakes up in what looks like a hospital room, next to a very tall dark-skinned woman with pointed ears who is performing red magic on her. Music is playing from a radio in a language she doesnt understand.
November 26, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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#meetthewebcomic Hush is a completed comic adaptation of The Little Mermaid, set in 1830s Ottoman Greece. It's full of bright colors and unique characters, and is told entirely without dialogue in keeping with the story's themes of silent suffering. (c. 2018, 120 pages)

hushcomic.space
the cover of Hush. it shows a bright meditteranean beach with footprints leading out of the water towards the trees. as the footprints go on, they grow more and more soaked with blood. The first page of hush. It shows a coral reef grown into the shape of a castle. It's filled with mermaids who are parading through a corridor in the coral, dancing and playing music. another page later in the story. The little mermaid approaches land for the first time, reaching out to inspect a branch, amused and confused at the sound it makes. A fisherman's boat starts to pass by, and she sinks back into the water to watch it.
November 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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I had this idea and it wouldn't leave me alone until i drew it up lol. I havent drawn the alkearth guys in my more "normal" drawing style since.... 2016???? and wowee is it cursed! adolede was originally based on zendaya and like... it ALMOST still fits but......😬

#alkearth #OCsky #art #naomiartys
drawings of Adolede and Connie in the style of the comic, next to slightly more realistic renderings of them in the same poses.
November 6, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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"It's familiar, like -- like it's a dance with steps we can't quite remember until we're--"

"--dancing them again."

the fact that i was obsessed w this movie before i ever played a game of MtG is what we call foreshadowing
#thegamershandsoffate #myriadbuxtahude #tuathadundareel #fanart #naomiartys
September 25, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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sometimes your day just doesn't go the way you planned #monster #alastairsergei #art #naomiartys
September 25, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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some old alkearth concept art :) that top left pic of lloyd and adolede is still one of my favorites of them, but seeing natvia and julian as white people causes me psychic damage

#alkearth #art #naomiartys
September 25, 2024 at 11:12 PM